To work? Unless you do all your work at home. Which is going to be your apartment. Do you have enough room for an office? Or are you going to use the kitchen table?
For legitimacy. As for renting space:
1. Might not be any space in your area, depending on where you live.
2. Know what sucks? Having to work around the schedule of your client, you, AND whoever else may try to book your space.
If you have enough room in your apartment to open your laptop and type on it, you have an office. Filing cabinets don't need to exist anymore, you know?
Of course, if you wanna start up a store, shop, or something else, well... good luck doing it on a "rent by the hour" mode.
If I were a smart individual looking to sell physical goods I would figure out that we have the internet now and I could open a website, or sell on existing websites.
Also, there is such a thing as pop-up shops, kiosk businesses, and door-to-door. You would probably want to do that and test the interest of the general public before taking a leap and opening a whole store (which would make sense to take a business loan on if the product was popular).
Depends on the business. Maybe not an accountant but certainly other ventures require more than one person.
What ventures require multiple people to start up and is impossible to run as a one-man-show? I'm thinking.
The ones I can think of are Amusement Park, Car Dealership, Supermarket... Nothing I can think of that would be startable with 30 to 60K anyway.
And if I thought really hard I can think of smaller-scale one-man-show versions of those businesses too. Nothing is impossible.
A website for an accountant isn't a significant venture. How hard is it to get Wordpress installed, find a survey form plugin for Wordpress, and customize a template? A properly motivated person could do it themselves if they didn't want to pay someone to do it.
Motivated, sure, but it would likely not look very good. No amount of motivation is going to give you skills.
And wordpress? Really? Let's make your business look like a joke from the URL. I'm sure it won't hurt.
Wordpress is a free Content Management System you can download and install on your own webhost (ie. a $5/mo shared hostgator plan). Wordpress.com provides a software-as-a-service version of that who will host it for you. I'm pretty sure they will sell you your own .com alias these days, too.
And it doesn't take much talent to find a good looking Wordpress theme and replace a logo... Not a good logo creator? There's Fiverr for that.
Yes, tell me, how often do you click those little pop-up boxes?
If I'm searching for "accountant in Los Angeles" why wouldn't I click on the inline search results if it was relevant?
I, like many others, block ads.
Firstly, most people do not block ads.
Secondly, ad blocking may be short lived, as many technologies are emerging in that space which will allow websites to pass-through advertisement content through their own domain with internal redirect links without the browser seeing itself connecting to a third-party advertising network to retrieve ads.
Finally, the popular adblocker companies allow advertisers to
pay to play, so your AdBlock Plus won't stop my google ads anyway.