I'm, for once, jealous of the USA.
Here in Spain to open a business is bureaucratic hell.
Before doing anything you need to register in several administrations, not one, several. Once registered no matter you have sales or not, you have to pay a monthly social security quota. Several hundred euros a month even if you are not yet made a sale.
Then even if you don't sell absolutely anything, because your business was shit or whatever, you have to present sale tax models, even if they are at 0.
And there's no minimum, you have to do all this even if tou just want to sell one cool t-shirt you made for 1€.
At the end even the smallest business end up hiring some specialized person just to handle the bureaucratic mess for them, which add up to the monthly cost of having a business opened.
If this was nottheonion I wouldn't be surprised