A single word which means to start a company or business [closed]

What is the single word which means to start a company or business?

Solution 1:

Establish: to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice. (Dictionary.com)

For example, someone discussing their business plans might say "Our goal is to be established by June of this year."

"Ford Motor company was established in Dearborn, Michigan."

Synonym is found

Solution 2:

Any word for originating a project can be applied to a business: start, create, etc.

But most commonly, to start an enterprise is to found it, and the person who does so is its founder. Being named a founder or co-founder of a company has some impact on the allocation of equity of a startup, and there is a small industry in Silicon Valley that connects entrepreneurs with possible co-founders (e.g. mating someone with a great business idea with someone with the technical skills to implement it).

Solution 3:

People usually simply start or set up a company or a business. The company may then be incorporated.

Incorporate:

2 constitute (a company, city, or other organization) as a legal corporation

Solution 4:

Believe it or not, the word "enterprise", may be used as a transitive verb. (source, Webster's Online Dictionary)

So you can say, for example, "I will enterprise my business by the end of this month."