Find advisers and mentors who have run and scaled small businesses. Talk to them casually and ask if they'd be willing to offer advice on occasion. That's how I did it, and I built to 15 employees while avoiding many (but not all!) of the common business basics blunders due to their assistance. If you find their advice valuable, you can even formalize a relationship with these advisers and provide a token number of warrants in exchange for a bigger time commitment.
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+1. /me running a business. Have discovered the tough way, there's no alternative to mentors/advisors. Running a business involves too many variables. No book/blog can ever cover the entire gamut of probabilities. The only way is to have ready access to a person already doing/done that and ask.
Cheers and all the best :-)
I'm always happy to help people get started so feel free to email me.