Input, advice, opinions, please.

Greetings!

I am a student, soon to be a law school student, and always in need of
extra money, as are some of my friends with whom I attend the
university.  This lead to an idea we had to start a small business,
with only a handful of us, serving papers for law firms, practices,
and individuals.

 Hence, this post.  The idea is still in the pre-beginning stages, and
we are attempting to gather as much information as possible.  Any
opinions, input or information you may have would be very much
appreciated.

 Ideally, this is what we hope to develop;

 A non-profit organization which provides dependable, professional,
and efficient service of legal papers (i.e. complaints, summons,
subpoenas, etc.) for a wide range of businesses and individual.  The
proceeds to be deposited into an interest bearing account, wherein the
student who actively provided service of the legal papers is written a
check, after the companies all pay their bills, to go towards their
school bills.

 Some questions we have are:

1. Is it feasible that this would be a non-profit venture?  Are there
resources for which we may look into that?

2. If you are an attorney, is it feasible to market this service to
attorneys and firms?  If so, Do you have any ideas on the best way to
do so on a $00 budget?  What are the main things which you look for in
a company?

3.We chose this service, because it suited the few resources we
currently have available to us (arms, cars, mapquest, a notary and
computers.)  As to other things we will need, we have so far thought
of these; cards and flyers, a database to track serves, who did the
serve, billing etc., paper, some sort of account, some sort of license
or permit allowing us to do this.  If you have started your own small
business, do you see something we ave just blatantly overlooked?

4. Above you will note that we have no idea as to how to obtain a
permit/ license and account for which to start this up.  How necessary
is this step?  Can anybody point me to any resources or information
about this?

I have cross posted this to usenet groups I thought may have some
insightful information.  I would appreciate any feedback you may have.

Thank you!

Very truly yours, YoungVegas