[thelist] Starting a Webusiness

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> From: "aphelan (Andrea Phelan)" 
<aphelan at confederationc.on.ca>
>
> I have been working in web development for about 6 years in contract,
> freelance, corporate and educational design.
> I'm about to begin the process of starting my own company, and I was
> wondering if anyone out there had any tips and tricks they may have picked
> up along the way that would be useful.

talk to an accountant before a lawyer... do business under your 
own name, as a dba (doing business as), and consider 
incorporating a business as your name (make taxes easier to be a 
corporation of some sort, makes it easy to do biz as yourself, but 
still have legal protection as a business)...

other stuff...