Except in the United States you don't need to incorporate in order to start a business. You can start a sole proprietorship any old day, and don't need to repor

Except in the United States you don't need to incorporate in order to start a business. You can start a sole proprietorship any old day, and don't need to report it to the government until filing your schedule C -- and if your business never made any money at all, you don't even need to file. From the IRS's perspective, I've started and failed at creating half a dozen businesses in the last ten years.