The following articles provide basic information on local, state, and federal requirements needed to start a business in Florida. With a few enhancements, they were in large part taken from the Florida Business Start-Up Guide formerly published by the Florida Department of Commerce (now Enterprise Florida). which is not copyrighted, but which was supplanted by the Florida Business & Newcomers Guide, For the sake of brevity, no attempt has been made to provide a complete list of regulatory requirements.

Some places frown on home-based businesses, and some businesses should never be run out of the home. What you should know before starting out.

Doom and gloom means less competition and more opportunity. As I am writing this in March 2008, the financial news couldn’t be bleaker. The subprime meltdown has spread into municipal finance, housing prices have been decimated, foreclosures are rampant and the biggest banks in the country are touring the world’s sovereign funds like urchins canvassing mansions, with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke playing the role of Fagan in the background, urging them toward the imposing black doors with the massive brass knockers. And if they get turned away, recession will turn into depression.

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