List: First 90 Days: The Start-up Checklist Every New Small Business Needs
- Assess the competition
- Assign responsibilities to co-founders
- Build a simple website
- Choose a business name
- Consider a co-founder
- Create press releases and advertisements
- Decide if you need premises or can work from home
- Define your customer profile
- Design a logo
- Develop a brief business plan
- Don’t quit the day job until you have to
- File for trademarks and patents (if required)
- Find your first customers
- Get family and friends on board with you
- Hire your first employee (if required)
- Join an online business community
- Launch with a bang!
- Look for small business grants and/or consider raising investment
- Make a list of suppliers and distribution partners
- Make something you can show people
- Purchase relevant equipment
- Refine your pitch
- Refine your product, marketing and sales approach
- Register a website domain name (or two)
- Register your business
- Research the market
- Set up your accounting system
- Set up your business banking
- Set up your contact management system
- Set up your social media profiles “Start your revenue stream – don\\’t wait for things to be perfect”,
- Take out insurance
- Talk to business owners and peers that you know and trust
