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Answer five practical questions and get a clear starting sequence before you browse a hundred choices. Then use the Academy tools to validate, open, get customers, and build the business.

Start with the right order. Start to Open gives you a short planning sequence. The 115 published learning rooms provide the deeper niche-specific work. Government approval, licensing, customers, funding, and income are not included or guaranteed.

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  1. Answer five questions and receive your first three moves.
  2. Open the matching tool or business room and complete the next action.
  3. Use account saving or exports to return with your progress intact.

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115 published rooms

Care & community

Wisconsin CBRF

A Wisconsin Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF) is a licensed assisted living home where 5 or more unrelated adults live and receive room and board, supervision and support services, with no more than 3 hours of nursing care per resident per week.

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Transportation & logistics

Medical Courier

Route the cargo, contracts, vehicle and insurance needs, privacy exposure, specimen-packaging triggers, chain of custody, pricing, and buyers.

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Professional & technical services

Mobile Notary

Commission route, bond or insurance distinctions, lawful fees, prohibited legal advice, recordkeeping, travel pricing, and client channels.

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Home & property services

Junk Removal

Load pricing, legal disposal, prohibited materials, vehicle and labor risk, dump-fee math, property protection, and commercial accounts.

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Commerce & retail

TikTok Shop

Seller verification, product clearance, unit economics, content and affiliate operations, fulfillment, returns, records, and account health.

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Transportation & logistics

Freight Dispatching Service

A freight dispatching service finds and books loads for small trucking companies and owner-operators, negotiates rates with brokers on the carrier's behalf, and handles the paperwork that keeps the truck moving.

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Professional & technical services

Life and Health Insurance Agent or Agency

A licensed life and health insurance agent helps individuals, families and small employers buy life insurance, health coverage (ACA Marketplace and off-exchange), Medicare Advantage, Part D and Medicare Supplement plans, supplemental health and annuities, and is paid commissions by the insurance companies that appoint them.

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Home & property services

Holiday Light Installation

Holiday light installation is a seasonal decorative lighting business: you design a display, hang listed C9, C7 or mini light strands, wreaths, garland and inflatables on rooflines, gutters, trees and landscapes, plug everything into the customer's existing exterior receptacles, maintain it through the season, then take it down and store it.

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Transportation & logistics

Dumpster and Roll-Off Rental

A roll-off dumpster business rents steel containers (usually 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 cubic yards) to contractors, property owners and homeowners, hauls the full container to a landfill, transfer station or recycling facility, and charges for the rental period plus the disposal weight.

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Events & entertainment

Bounce House and Party Rental

A bounce house and party rental company delivers, sets up, supervises or hands off, then tears down inflatables, tents, tables and chairs for birthdays, church festivals, school field days and corporate picnics.

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Beauty & personal care

Permanent Jewelry

Permanent jewelry is welding a chain bracelet or anklet shut directly on a customer so it has no clasp, usually at a pop-up inside a salon, boutique, brewery or market rather than in your own store.

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Automotive & equipment

Mobile Mechanic and Mobile Tire Service

A mobile mechanic and mobile tire service drives to the customer and performs diagnostics, brakes, batteries, starters, alternators, suspension, fluid and filter service, and roadside tire repair or replacement in a driveway, parking lot or fleet yard instead of a shop bay.

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Commerce & retail

Dropshipping Store

A dropshipping store is an online retail business: you take the order, charge the customer, and a third-party supplier ships the goods straight to the buyer, so you never hold inventory.

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Home & property services

Appliance Repair Business

An appliance repair business diagnoses and fixes household refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, ranges, cooktops, ovens, dishwashers and microwaves in customers' homes, charging a service call plus parts and labor, with add-ons such as installation and haul-away.

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Real estate & housing

Home Inspection Business

A home inspection business sells a visual, non-invasive inspection of a house's major systems and a written report, mostly to buyers during a purchase contract's inspection window, with add-ons such as radon testing, wood-destroying insect (WDI) reports, sewer scopes and pre-listing inspections.

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Construction & skilled trades

Commercial Hardscaping

A commercial hardscaping company installs and repairs paver plazas and walkways, segmental retaining walls, concrete and stone flatwork, steps, seat walls and site amenities for property owners, HOAs, general contractors and facility managers, often alongside residential patio work to fill the calendar.

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Transportation & logistics

Freight Brokerage

A freight brokerage arranges truck transportation for shippers by matching their loads with authorized motor carriers, earning the difference between what the shipper pays and what the carrier is paid.

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Construction & skilled trades

Plumbing Contracting

A plumbing contracting business sells licensed plumbing work: emergency service and repair, fixture and water-heater replacement, drain and sewer service, and remodel or new-construction rough-in and finish.

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Care & community

Independent Pharmacy

An independent pharmacy is a locally owned community (retail) pharmacy that fills prescriptions, counsels patients, and sells over-the-counter and front-store products, often adding immunizations, compliance packaging, delivery or compounding.

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Professional & technical services

Non-Clinical Temporary Staffing Agency

A non-clinical temporary staffing agency recruits workers, hires them onto its own payroll as the employer of record, and assigns them to client businesses for light industrial, warehouse, clerical, hospitality, cleaning or event work, billing the client an hourly rate.

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Construction & skilled trades

Portable Restroom Rental

A portable restroom rental company delivers, services and picks up portable toilets, hand-wash stations and restroom trailers for construction sites, events, farms and emergencies, and hauls the waste to a permitted disposal site.

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Home & property services

Pool Maintenance Business

A pool maintenance business runs a weekly route: you clean residential and commercial swimming pools, test and balance the water, add sanitizer and algaecide, clean baskets and filters, and flag equipment problems before they become $3,000 repairs.

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Home & property services

Pest Control Business

A pest control business treats homes, rental properties, restaurants, offices and warehouses for insects, rodents and (with extra licensing) termites and other wood-destroying organisms, usually on recurring service plans.

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Real estate & housing

Property Management

A third-party property management company leases, collects rent for, maintains and accounts for rental homes and apartments on behalf of owners in exchange for fees.

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Real estate & housing

Title and Escrow Services

A title and escrow business searches property records, issues title insurance as an appointed agent of an underwriter, and holds and disburses closing money for real estate buyers, sellers and lenders.

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Care & community

Medical Waste Collection and Disposal

A medical waste business collects regulated medical waste (sharps, red-bag waste, pathological and some trace-chemo waste) from clinics, dental and veterinary offices, dialysis centers, tattoo studios, labs and long-term care, then delivers it to a permitted treatment or disposal facility and gives the generator a document proving it was handled legally.

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