10 Legitimate Businesses You Can Start for Under $20

I am constantly on the lookout for innovative business ideas, and apparently so are enough magazine consumers that a new industry of "rags-to-riches" business magazines has been spawned.

These junk magazines come complete with glossy, all-business-looking covers and promise new, legitimate business ideas. But pick up any two and compare them and you will see the same ads, the same companies featured (in fact, the same "copy" which means their featured articles are really paid advertisements without the disclaimer) repeated over and over again.

If you are strapped for cash and short on ideas for a business, here are articles that offer reasonable, and valuable ideas from various Guides on About.com.

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