Counting My Shoestrings Before They Hatch

I heard an interesting interview on the Thom Hartmann radio show with the author of Shoestring Venture. His book encourages start-up businesses to use online sources (often outside the USA) for human resources, accounting, etc. Sounds like outsourcing for the little guy. The website promises that the book can be used as a consultant for making important decisions "from business concept to product development to web marketing. Now if I could just get down to the business of starting a business.