As a recent small business starter, the most valuable thing to me would have been a complete, authoritative checklist of all the steps needed. All the licenses,

As a recent small business starter, the most valuable thing to me would have been a complete, authoritative checklist of all the steps needed. All the licenses, registrations, etc, and dependencies between them. Sure, it will need a bit of customization for each business (need food service license?), but if it's still ambiguous after that, fix the law so it's not ambiguous. I generally think it's a human rights violation that law is so impenetrable to the people who are supposed to follow it, but it's especially obvious in this case that murkiness helps literally no one.