About two months ago I took on a part time job. It was a quick way to save some money to start a new business. With my online business still making money and it does not need much attention the extra income from the job can be saved. There are some big goals that I have set for myself. The true entrepreneurial dream was for a real world business. With the cost of starting a real world business in a brink and mortar shop this dream had been placed on hold. As I realized that I am not getting any younger I started to dream up some ideas and get a plan in motion. The first step is to write a business plan and have a road map of where I want this business to go. Once I have set the goal I need to do all the legal work to make this a real business. The math I crunched brought me to a grand total of $35,000 to get started. This is the amount of money I need to pay rent and stock the business. As a new start up I will try to do all the work myself or ask some friends for help. The addition of employees would cost way to much for the first few month of business. As I grow the business I will add employees, but first I need to just get this thing going. The idea is to keep the business a bare as possible till I can prove that it will make money and then grow from there. There are many more steps to setting up a real world business. It makes my online business look so simple. With my online business it was very easy to set up and maintain with little effort. If anything I want to learn from taking this dream and turning it into reality. If I fail then I now know what I will need to set up another real world business. Many people say that the economy is tough and that I will lose my shirt, but that can be said about any type of business. The fact is that even in the worst economic times new business have been started and succeed. Now its my time to make a go of it. The fun part is that I am going to document my effort and share it on this blog as I move forward. Since the first step is getting the funding it might take a little longer before I can make and real headway in my effort.