Small Businesses & Proper Planning For Start-Up

By Professor DLG'er

Class, let's focus on proper planning for our hypothetical business venture today.  We are going to talk about taking the proper steps to ensure a smooth start-up for our new business.  Since we live in a fishing village, we will use fish processing as our new business.

Let's make sure that we have a chunk of native allotment to build our processing plant on, because we know that it will be immune from local laws and frivolous complaints from anyone that may live nearby that is concerned about any horrible odors that may come along with fish processing and what we are going to do with the fish waste that we'll have.

Obtaining a law degree is a huge plus, but optional.  By obtaining a law degree, we know that we are not ordinary people.  It also gives us the feeling that we can do whatever we want, regardless of what other people think.

It's pretty much a given that a fish processing plant is going to use a pretty good amount of water.  We'll want to place our processing plant somewhere near a creek or culvert, and we will call the creek or culvert "existing waste stream".  This sounds more environmentally friendly than "dumping fish blood into the creek that runs by everyone on its' way to the river".

Since we are already growing organic vegetables, let's use fish guts as fertilizer.  We'll dump the fish guts on the ground and mix them with dirt.  We'll toss and turn this mixture now and then.  Common sense will tell us that there may be unpleasant smells coming from this magical mixture, but remember- we're on native allotment and that gives us special rights to do what we want on our property with little regard for what any of our neighbors may think.

Now- the icing on the cake in our situation is that we can conduct our business in a wonderful little 'fishing village' during summer operations, but have a more permanent residence in another city during winter months.

Hope you enjoyed today's lesson.  Class dismissed!