United Arab Emirates-a profile -- How to be an entrepreneur -- Steps to starting a businessin UAE -- Specify the project -- Market survey -- How to conduct your own market research -- Make detailed project report -- Determining startup budget -- Arrange local sponsorship/ partnerships -- Choose the premise and make tenancy contact -- Setup infrastructure -- Obtain commercial license -- Recruit staff, make proper job descriptions and provide training -- declare project, monitor and manage results -- Types of business -- General partnership -- simple limited partnership -- Joint participation -- Public joint stock companies -- Private joint stock companies -- Limited liability company -- partnership limited with shares -- professional services -- Free zone establishments -- Jebel Ali free zone -- Internet city -- Media city -- Knowledge village -- ras Al Khaimah free zone -- Family business -- Procedures -- Procedures and documents required starting a commercial business -- Commercial license -- Agreement with the sponsor or the service agent -- Membership of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry -- registeration in the commercial register -- Publication of the project -- civil defense permission -- Bank guarantees -- Other official authorities -- The procedures and documents required establishing a limited liability company or partnership company -- The procedures and documents required for establishing a shareholing simple partnership company -- the procedures and documents required for establishing a company in the Free Zone -- For individuals -- For companies and branches -- The procedures and documents required to establish a branch in a foreign company -- Activities and approvals -- Labor and proecedures and other legislations -- Procedure for recruiting labors and other to the UAE -- Procedures to recruit staff and laborers to the UAE -- The procedures and documents required registering at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs -- Recruiting staff and workers -- the procedures and documents required to obtain labor cards -- The procedures and documents required to residence visas -- Procedures and documents required to cancel staff sponsorship and residence visas -- Other general information regarding visa procedure -- If the employee is absent or runs away from his sponsor the procedures and documents required in this situation -- Marketing and public relations and publicity -- Electronic commerce -- marketing, public relations and publicity -- Customer research -- Telephone surveys -- Focus group questionnaires -- Taxation and customs duties -- Income tax -- Custom duty -- Other local taxes -- Legislations to be reviewed -- Authorities and contacts -- Details of government offices -- Places to visit.