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West Virginia is currently the only state in the country offering a Young Entrepreneur Waiver, giving qualifying residents ages 18 to 29 the opportunity to have their initial business registration filing fee waived. This article explains how the program works, what it covers, and why knowing about resources like this can make a real difference before launching a business.

Entrepreneurship has developed a powerful cultural mythology over the last decade; advice travels faster than analysis and certain phrases are repeated so frequently that they begin to feel like universal truths. “Just start,” “move fast,” “build in public,” and “you’ll figure it out along the way” have become the slogans of modern startup culture. These ideas are not entirely wrong.