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>Yes if you want to form a specific kind of business entity like an LLC ($200 ish) you need to pay a very modest fee to the state Secretary, or if you want to work for yourself under a certain name you can file a DBA ($35 ish), but most of these basic filings are essentially rubber stamped. If you want to just start performing labor for somebody under your own name you don't even need either one of these.
This isn't starting a business though. This is just bureaucracy and optimizing a bit of bureaucracy won't do much
The essence of starting a business is selling something of value
tldr
having customers = having a business (even if you're just a drug dealer)
having an LLC = just formalizing and legalizing your business (which is a miniscule part of having an actual business)
A business without an llc can survive while an llc without customers has never even begun to live
Yes what I'm saying is trivial but it's a popular misconception that registering a business means starting a business
No all it means is expenses nothing else
Starting a business always starts with getting customers first most of the time without even having any "business" on paper