CPR: California has a terrible reputation of being unfriendly to business, but that’s just because some people don’t have a sense of humor.
If you love comedy, check out the website of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) at www.business.ca.gov.
There you’ll find all the incentives, programs and helpful information that the state of California has created to help businesses grow and stay in California. There’s not much, but brevity is the soul of wit.
The state offers advice on “Setting up a Facility,” under the category of “Start a Business.” Here, in its entirety, is the section titled, “Acquiring Office Manufacturing Equipment”:
“Office furnishings can be rented or bought through businesses that deal primarily with office occupants. These companies are easy to locate through local telephone Yellow Pages under ‘office furniture and equipment, dealers or rental.’ Companies that sell telephone and computer systems, copy, fax and mail machines and other technical equipment can also be located through the Yellow Pages. Companies selling other office supplies such as pens, paper, tape and staples can be found through the Yellow Pages listed under ‘office supplies’ or ‘stationers,’ or through catalog sales.”
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Yellow Pages? Who gets those anymore?
If you want to start a business and you can’t figure out where to get staples (Staples?) maybe you shouldn’t.
It’ll be a fail.
Plans are created by the simple for the simple.
A friend of mine owned a custom cabinet shop. He quickly learned when a startup business ordered custom counters/storage/desks, etc. to get his money up front, because the new companies that started by ordering expensive custom built furniture were usually out of business within the first year.
The funny thing is these people are serious about their advice.
It is very distressing to think that the imbecile who wrote that is very likely to retire with a pension bigger than many people’s working salary/wage. I can only hope he goes to a trendy sushi restaurant and get served improperly prepared fugu by a green-haired tongue-pierced chef who found a mail order sushi school in the yellow pages.
Anybody stupid enough to go to a government website to learn how to start or run a business should look to Kurt Cobain for life extension tips.
How to start a successful business in California:
Step 1 – Move to Texas.
Step 2 – Open business.
See Oblowme was right on when he said “you didn’t build that alone, you had help”
Does the LA YP have a section for ‘Useful Gov’t Agencies’?