How to Start a Business in Texas
From licenses and permits to taxes and insurance, learn what you need to do to start a business in Texas.
- Choose a Business Idea
- Decide on a Legal Structure
- Choose a Business Name
- Register Your Texas Business Entity
- Apply for Texas Licenses and Permits
- Pick a Business Location and Check Zoning Laws
- File and Report Taxes
- Obtain Insurance
- Open a Business Bank Account
1. Mary Kay Ash, born Hot Wells, Harris County, Texas. was an American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. At her death, her personal fortune was $98 million. Her company had more than $1.2 billion in sales and an international sales force of more than eight hundred thousand in at least three dozen countries. How old was she when she started the business? Subtract 1 from the sum of the digits in her age to get A.
2. In 1932, Charles Elmer Doolin, manager of the Highland Park Confectionery in San Antonio, Texas, purchased a corn chip recipe, a handheld potato ricer, and 19 retail accounts from a corn chip manufacturer for $100, which he borrowed from his mother. Doolin established a new corn chip business in his mother’s kitchen. What was the name of his chip? Add 2 to the number of letters in its name for B.
3. In 1978, twenty-five-year-old college dropout John Mackey and twenty-one-year-old Renee Lawson borrowed $45,000 from family and friends to open the doors of a small natural foods store called SaferWay in Austin, Texas. On September 20, 1980, John and Renee partnered with Craig Weller and Mark Skiles to merge SaferWay with their Clarksville Natural Grocery, resulting in the opening of what store? The number of letters in the LAST word of the 3 word title is C.
4. Charles Courtice Alderton studied medicine at the University of Texas, and worked as a pharmacist in Waco, in a shop called "Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store", which had a soda fountain. Alderton noticed that customers were tiring of the traditional flavors of sarsaparilla, lemon and vanilla, and so to try and revive sales, began experimenting with new flavor combinations, eventually settling on a 23 ingredient mix combined with phosphoric acid to give it tang. It was first sold on December 1, 1885, and was introduced to almost 20 million people while attending the 1904 World's Fair Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri . What was the soda? Divide the number of letters in BOTH words of the 2-word title by 2 for D.
5. Michael Dell was born in 1965 in Houston, to a Jewish family. While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers. He then applied for a vendor license to bid on contracts for the State of Texas, winning bids by not having the overhead of a computer store. In January 1984, Dell banked on his conviction that the potential cost savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel. In what year did Dell start selling computers over the Web? The last digit in this year is E.
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Earn your diploma from the Texas School House by finding the 11 caches in the Texas School House State Forest. But first you'll have to learn the history and facts of the Lone Star State! Your day in the classroom includes a lovely streamside stroll, beaver lodges, and interperative signs provided by the Audobon Society. Find the caches and ride off into the sunset!
All the caches are winter-friendly preforms or bison tubes.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/maptexasschool.pdf