No Money? No Problem! The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Business

You might be unemployed, living off income support from social services, but with dreams of becoming self- supporting. Starting a business without money is written for those who have the drive and the ideas, but perhaps not the big funds, to start their own business.
This book is also addressed to business advisers, social work- ers, Swedish Public Employment Service officers, and others whose work includes meeting people who need to find a way to support themselves. It pro- vides inspiration and information about starting a livelihood business with only a small financial investment at the outset. This book takes a positive approach. It aims to show the possibilities that exist. It might seem that there are a lot of rules and regulations in a country like Sweden: occupational health and safety rules, tax rules, cash register regulations, work environment requirements, and much more. Some- times you might hear people say that you just can’t make a living as a market trader in a country as complicated as Sweden. And on first sight, this might appear to be true. This book tries to look at what can actually be done, with- out breaking the rules. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy life. The working hours are long and there are often a number of years of struggle before achieving break-even. It might not be a life that suits everyone. But for some, it comes entirely naturally. For many refugees who come to Sweden, the traditional Swedish road to working life – study, becoming employable, and getting a secure job – feels foreign. They are more used to producing and selling things. The tradition for them is to be entrepreneurs. It’s not uncommon for us to encounter people who also feel that they get better at speaking Swed ish by standing in a market stall selling flowers then by studying Swedish in a classroom with maybe more than 30 students.