Awesome Opportunity

Best wishes for the venture.  It can be fun, scary, fulfilling, frustrating, rewarding, and just plain hard work.  

If you are going to involve a bank, you will need a business plan.  You should have one even without the bank.  Basically, a business plan is a complete description of the business and serves as a blueprint for your first few years.  It describes layout, bookkeeping, advertising, merchandise, floor care, personnel policies, lists vendors.  Planning is the thing. 

There are web sites that have forms to use, library books, vocational schools, even the fed govt  has programs to help. 

www.myownbusiness.org/s2/

www.sba.gov › ... › Plan Your Business

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Thanks to everyone for your support & ideas.  They are so appreciated.  I've got some name ideas from your suggestions.  Let me know what y'all think:

• Grady Unleashed
• Aspen Unleashed
• Mainly Aspen
• Mainly Unleashed
• For Paws on Main
• Mainly For Paws (all the above with cartoonish pix of the boyz cuz they're so cute)

From that list I like Mainly Unleashed.  They're all good, tho.

Most marketers would say that the name should be suggestive of what an establishment does, or sells, so, JMHO, I like "For Paws on Main" out of that list.  The division of corporations, or whatever they call it in PA, will be able to tell you if your proposed name is taken or not.  Here, it costs about $30 to reserve a name.  I think it's awesome that you have this opportunity!   You can get free advice from SCORE (http://www.score.org/index.html) and some community colleges have courses in entrepreneurship.  Some states have offices of minority and women business assistance, so check that, too. 

 I like Grady Unleashed best, and For Paws on Main.

They're all good, I can't decide.

Wanted to share a cute one I just found while looking for Honest Kitchen food:  Louie's Pet Beastro.  It's here in Michigan, looks like they sell mainly the better dog and cat foods, so it's sort of like Anne suggested - the name tells you what they specialize in.

When you think about it, though, does the name McDonalds even make a person think "hamburgers"?  Sure, it does now, but when it started?  Probably not.  I dunno, I'm rambling.

 Lots of good ideas Annie!  I like Mainly For Paws and For Paws on Main, the best.

Oh and I looked it up, and it would probably be about 2 hours for me come up there, so not a bad deal :D