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How to Start a Business in Tennessee

Free start-up resources and useful local contacts.

Improve your chances of success!

How to Start a Business in Tennessee

Starting a business in Tennessee

If you are thinking about starting a business in Tennessee or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.

Start Your Own Business in Tennessee contains resources and the information that will help give your venture the best chance of success. It also highlights organisations who offer friendly advice and the services that you are likely to need as a new startup or local business owner.

Grants | Networking groups | Business advice | Mentoring | Co-working spaces

Starting a business in Tennessee

Local help for startups

There is plenty of help for startups in Tennessee but where can it be found?

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Local partners

We are happy to promote anyone who is prepared to offer friendly support to local start-ups.

Our local partners have been kind enough to help us and are keen to help you too.

Free Startup Resources

Getting it right from the start can help to prevent problems later.

To help you with this we have created a vast selection of resources and they are all completely free!

FREE startup workshops

If you are thinking about starting a business, our FREE three-hour ONLINE workshop is definitely for you!

Open to everyone, our sole aim is to increase your chances of success. We do that by explaining:

The reality of running a business; the most common pitfalls and how to avoid them; which legal status is likely to be most suitable; funding, grants and managing your money; business planning and cashflow forecasting; finding and keeping customers.

Latest articles

You don't know what you don't know!

The prospect of starting a new business can be incredibly exciting but should be approached with care. You have probably heard scary stories about how many start-ups fail in the early stages. You can make sure that you are not one of them by learning as much as possible before you launch. Over the years, we have collected lots of articles which will show you what has worked well for other start-ups and the putfalls to avoid.

Free Startup Guide

Start Your Own Business in 2024

Download the 2024 edition of our Free Start Your Own Business guide

An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered in an easy-to-read way with links to useful online articles and relevant contacts.

The idea of starting your own business can be incredibly exciting and who can blame you for being tempted?

However, the sad truth is that far too many new enterprises fail in the early stages. Our aim is to make sure that you don't become one of them.

This guide explains the key start-up subjects in simple English.

There is also plenty of help available in the area and much of it is free - please do make the most of it.

Read more about what our Free guide contains and how you can download it.
Starting a business in Tennessee

Key Contacts in Tennessee

'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.

Tennessee is a great place for start-ups but your chances of success are dramatically improved if you make the most of the support that is available locally. Click on logos to visit their websites.

Directory

Harvey Maria US
Harvey Maria is an experienced supplier of stunning flooring including luxury vinyl tiles. Established in 1994, the company has built a reputation for innovative and eye-catching designs. Supplying to homeowners and landlords, as well as to commercial premises and other businesses, the company is made up of a dedicated team of experts.
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21st Century Resources Inc.
I provide counseling and mentoring services free of charge for business start ups and businesses that are expanding. I specialize in addressing the financial needs of the business. I also advise business owners in areas such as legal organization, accounting and bookkeeping, business plans, cash flow projections and eCommerce. I conduct counseling sessions by appointment either by telephone or by teleconferencing. I have thirty nine years of business experience including founding and managing two small businesses. I serve all clients located in the fifty United States.
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Start-up articles

100's of free startup articles

We have created a collection of 100s of startup articles to help anyone with whatever stage they are on with their business journey. Hundreds of thousands of people have gone before you and we can learn from what they got right and avoid the things that have been proved not to work so well.

You can see the full list of 'articles' at: How to start a business