If you need an instant small business startup guide, this story may inspire you…

John Kang dreamed all his life of opening a restaurant since 2000. But he couldn’t dream up the money to pay for it.

By 2007, Kang’s financial situation still hadn’t changed. He decided to stop letting poor finances stand in his way and his future as a businessman.

“I saved money from my tax returns and started out making Southern-style Chinese Fried Chicken,” he says. “I sold them around the winter holidays.”

The friend chickens were a hit. Today Kang, 31, operates “Chicken-To-You”, a full-service, home-based catering company in Palm Spring.

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