The document provides resources for starting a small business in Florida, including links to business registration with the state, tax registration, and forming a corporation. It also provides contact information for the Florida Small Business Development Center which offers help to new businesses. Additionally, it notes that while selling products online through a business website does not require additional paperwork, one should register their company name with the county and check that any brand names are not already trademarked through the USPTO. Finally, it recommends several books on topics like starting a clothing line, fashion design, and fashion business management.

1. Starting a Small Business in Florida?
From the government websites of Florida, here are some resources on how to start a business in FL
Starting a Business in Florida - includes links to business registration, tax registration, links to
forming your corporation and business resources
http://www.dos.state.fl.us/startbus/inde...
Business Registration page http://www.dos.state.fl.us/startbus/regi...
Starting a Business in Florida - includes links to permits and licenses, online business filings, etc.
http://www.stateofflorida.com/portal/des...
If you need help in starting your business, you can contact the Small Business Development Center.
This is the contact person and information for Florida
Florida SBDC
Mr. Jerry Cartwright, State Director
UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA
401 East Chase Street, Suite 100
Pensacola, FL 32502
Phone: 850-473-7800
Fax: 850-473-7813

2. E-Mail: jcartwri@uwf.edu
Website: http://www.floridasbdc.com
If you are planning to sell your products in your website, you don't need separate paperwork to do it.
It will all be the business activities of the business you will register.
Given that you are starting a clothing line, remember that you can have a different company name
(say STACY CLOTHING BUSINESS) and different brand names for your clothing line (e.g. STACY
LUXE WEAR). You will register your company name with your county, but you will need to check the
brand names you are planning to use with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
You don't want to be sued http://www.ufficiozero.org/?p=29 for using a brand name that another
company is already using. You can do your own search using the USPTO Trademark Electronic
Search System(Tess) http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tessstate=8ecsul.1.1 or you can hire a
lawyer to help you do the search. Lawyers will typically cost $850 upwards to do trademark searches
plus filing fees -- and can be more depending on where you live. If you do this yourself (and you
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g-gurus/ can do it yourself), the fees range from $325 to $375 depending on whether you will submit
a paper application or electronic application
http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/notices/tmfeechange.htm
I suggest you read the following books to help you learn more about the business:
- The Official Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Clothing Line by Jay Arrington, Marc D. Baldwin
- The Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, and Marketing by Leslie Davis Burns
- Apparel Product Development (2nd Edition) by Maurice J. Johnson
- The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider's Look at Starting and Running Your Own Fashion
Business by Mary Gehlhar
- Fashion for Profit (Revised
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with Retail Chapter) by Frances Harder
- Fashion: From Concept to Consumer (8th Edition) by Gini Stephens Frings