I have, on occasion, contributed to the pile of "these articles" that you speak of, and I might suggest that the reason your things get skipped is that they're not particularly relevant. But just in case:

1.) Register the company: (optional) 1 hour finding and filling the "Sole Proprietor" form for your state. Or just don't bother.

2.) Trademarks and Patents: Completely unneccessary. 15 years in, I have none of these for any of my businesses.

3.) Taxes: Turbotax, click through whatever "business" one they guide you through and deduct what it says to deduct.

4.) Mystery Foreign Laws: Ignore them completely. If the European Cookie Popup Enforcement Division ever knocks on your door, follow their instructions. Until then, sweat things that actually matter for your business.

5-10.) Employee Stuff: Don't hire employees. As a one man shop, you'll find you can pull most stuff off yourself. Again, 15 years in, I've probably only paid 2 or 3 freelancers for short gigs outside my area of expertise. Their fees go in the appropriate box on Turbotax above, and never hit the threshold to need 1099s or anything silly like that.

So I think the important takeaway is that most people tend to worry way too much about all the little administrative details. And it's a shame, because all that can do is scare you off.

If you ignore all that stuff, and assume it doesn't apply to you, chances are it never will. Or at least by the time it ever does, you'll already be up and running, with money in the bank you can use to address it.

Best of luck!

> it’s just exactly the same as all the others

Yup , this article is basically similar to the already existing thousands of "Entrepreneurs" stuff existing on Medium.

>How to hire your first workers, or how to manage them

It's really sad these days we cant get things that are actually intellectually honest , people are "ok" to "open" about stuff that has been written about X Million times , but now how about they fail to manage X or Y or choose to hire X instead of Z and turn out wrong.

Really sad.

I think it still bears repeating, mostly because different styles of writing impact people differently (even if it's just the same core-content). It also helps _me_ solidify what I'm feeling.

But I agree with you on the next phases: managing budgets and hiring are complex and difficult. They deserve longer pieces as well.