Business Creation

Starting a business requires time and preparation. Define your project, choose a legal status, complete the necessary formalities... From the idea to the creation of a company, many steps are necessary.

Set up your business creation project

When setting up a business, it is important to define the idea of ​​starting a business by conducting a market study, setting up a business plan, defining a company's corporate purpose, company name or trade name.

Creating your business: what legal form?

In order to set up a business, it is necessary to choose its legal form, depending on the size of the company, the importance of the share capital, the number of partners, the tax regime or the social status of the manager.

Starting alone to start your own business

An entrepreneur who wishes to set up his own business can choose between different statuses: creation of a micro-company with for example, the status of self-entrepreneur, individual business or sole proprietorship, creation of a commercial company: single member limited liability company or joint stock company.

Starting a business: undertaking several

It is not uncommon for a creator to search for an associate for the creation of a business. To undertake to many, the possibilities of legal form of companies are many.

The commercial company (the partners are mainly the capital providers): limited liability company, anonimous society, joint stock company, limited partnership company, limited partnership by shares, partnership.

The cooperative (the workers are the partners): cooperative society, production cooperative society, cooperative society of collective interest, agricultural cooperative.

Civil society: civil real estate society, civil means society, civil professional society, liberal exercise company, joint venture, civil society of farming.

An agricultural holding: farming with limited liability, agricultural grouping of joint exploitation.

Business creation financing

There are different ways of financing a business creation: personal contribution, capital contribution, business start-up loan... etc.

An entrepreneur can also create his business without contribution, certain legal forms of business permit it.

Aid to start your own business

When you want to start your own business, you can, under certain conditions, benefit from an aid to create a business. This can be done in different forms:

* Financial assistance for start-ups: granted by communities or certain organizations,

* New support for the creation and resumption of activities,

* Assistance to job seekers creating or taking over a company,

* Young Innovative Company,

* Business start-up counseling,

* Student entrepreneur status,

* Business start-up assistance for the unemployed.

Company creation: which implantation to choose?

The choice of setting up a business is an important part of starting a business. In order to facilitate its establishment at the beginning of activity, it is sometimes possible to turn to a business incubator.

Formalities to start your own business

When you start your business, you have to deal with certain formalities, which vary according to the type of business. It is therefore advisable to go to a business registration center and to register in most cases with the Trade and Companies Registry.

Other formalities include the following:

* Inquire for the rights and duties relating to industrial property,

* Verify that the activity chosen for the company is not part of the regulated activities,

* Write statutes of company creation,

* Choose a tax system for the company,

* Contact an external auditor and/or an auditor if necessary (sometimes mandatory),

* Business creation insurance.

Special cases of business creation

Opening a franchise or taking over a business is a special case in the field of business creation. You have to know its characteristics. This is also the case if one seeks to set up a business abroad.

What to do according to its status?

Being an employee and starting a business is a feasible option: to do this, you can ask for a leave for creation or be part-time. This status allows you to benefit from certain advantages. The same applies if you are unemployed.