How to buy the time to build your business into a success. Most prosperous businesses are started on extremely tight budgets, and founders hustle hard to deliver innovative — or simply good — products or services. This book focuses on strategies to make great business ideas reality as cheaply as possible. Among the topics covered are how * you can save money by doing the necessary TCwork yourself, including incorporations, DBA notices, taxpayer ID applications * to organize your living space into a useable work space * to find very inexpensive or free office hardware * to get very inexpensive or free Internet access, phone service and other essential services * to save money by hiring interns, part-time workers, family members and volunteers to staff your start-up Forget what you've heard about Ivy League start-ups and go-go venture capital. The truth is that most new businesses race against limits of time and money to become successful; David Caplan demonstrates how start ups can buy more time by saving money.