Starting up

Before you start

• Considering starting up?
• Starting a business - meeting the challenges
• Finding and managing the money

Forming and naming your business

• Choosing and setting up a legal structure
• Naming your business
• Buying a business

Your workplace

• Choosing and setting up premises
• Keeping the workplace safe and your employees healthy

Taxes, payroll & returns

• Taxes and paperwork - getting started
• Income Tax and National Insurance
• Corporation Tax
• VAT
• Tax and payroll for employers

Employing people

• Becoming an employer for the first time

Managing your business

• Sales and marketing
• Financial control, operations and transport
• Contracts and suppliers
• IT and e-commerce for start ups
• Importing and exporting
• Protecting your business & ideas
• Choosing advisers and services

Start-up services

• Getting help from the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust
• Women into Business
• Getting help from the Cultural Enterprise Office
• Starting and growing a rural business
• Start a high-growth business
• Starting a business in Scotland as a non-UK national

Local case studies

• How Business Gateway helped me start my business

Starting a business in Europe

• Understanding the European market

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