About Home Business Hub

Home Business Hub is a free resource that helps entrepreneurs start home-based businesses. We provide clear, accurate licensing information for 102 occupations across all 50 states and Washington D.C.

Our Mission

Starting a home business shouldn't require a law degree or weeks of research. We believe every aspiring entrepreneur deserves access to straightforward information about what it takes to legally start their business from home.

Our guides cover licensing requirements, exact fees, training hours, exam requirements, and step-by-step checklists so you can go from idea to first client with confidence.

What We Offer

• 5,000+ state-specific guides — Every occupation in every state, with detailed requirements
• Exact fee information — Know your total startup cost before you begin
• Training hour requirements — From 0 hours to 2,000+ depending on your state
• Step-by-step checklists — Clear action items from licensing to first clients
• Earning potential data — BLS wage data so you know what to expect
• Free tools — Pricing calculator and startup cost estimator
• State comparisons — Find the best states for your occupation

Data Sources

Our licensing data comes from the Institute for Justice's License to Work 3 report, which documents occupational licensing requirements across all 50 states. Wage data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

We verify and update our information regularly. Each page shows when the data was last verified.

Who We Are

Home Business Hub was created by a team of researchers and developers who saw a gap in accessible business information. We noticed that entrepreneurs were spending hours — sometimes days — trying to figure out basic licensing requirements that should be easy to find.

We built this site to solve that problem once and for all. Every page is generated from verified data, so you get consistent, accurate information no matter which occupation or state you're researching.

Contact Us

Have questions, feedback, or found an error? We'd love to hear from you. Reach out through our Contact page.