[Celerity]

I ran into the same hardships with my business.

you know what I did to make it and grow it to a point where I could retire at 34 ?

I broke the rules. no permits. No insurance. No lawyers or bankers or accountants or insurance reps.

If you do everything by the book you need to be rich before you can open a business. If you want to be a business owner you just go for it.

you can’t be a doctor this way, but you can fix someone’s car.

[RightGeek]

I was thinking much the same thing when I read this

[Mr. Jeeves]

If you do everything by the book you need to be rich before you can open a business. If you want to be a business owner you just go for it.

That's exactly it - coupled with an intuitive understanding that all of those micro-laws really aren't aimed at you. They were created to take out some specific nuisance at some specific time and can't be considered real barriers to entry. Just enter anyway - and beg for forgiveness after the fact if necessary. Which 99 times out of 100, it won't be - because you aren't really big enough for the grifters to bother with.

Now, if you decide to turn your new-found business success into political power as a Republican - then your headaches will begin. :)