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Start a small business

A ready-made journey for anyone who wants to start a small business: 7 steps, about 4.8 hours in all, in an order that works — work steps of 30 minutes or less, with real-world sessions kept whole.

Opens in Nextep with a two-minute first step lit. Free, and no account needed to begin.

When it's useful

When you have decided to start a small business but the first move is fuzzy. Nextep shows one step at a time, keeps the rest in order, and never calls anything overdue — a day that slips simply becomes today.

The steps

1. 1Write what you sell, to whom, for how much30 min
2. 2Talk to 5 potential customerstime block · 60 min
3. 3Price it so it actually works30 min
4. 4Set up the legal and money basics45 min
5. 5Build the smallest sellable version60 min
6. 6Make the first sale45 min
7. 7Write down what you learned from it20 min

Work steps over 30 minutes are split into parts when you start, so they fit somewhere in a day; sessions — a run, an appointment, a call — stay whole.