wow, heavy question. When you have read gecs basics, maybe you can provide us with some extra info:
what kind of label do you want to setup? which genre? on which part of the proces will you focus, cause most small labels can't cope for all the different work stadia (like production, duplication, distribution, promotion) and they let stuff they can't deal with to other labels, so are you going to cooperate with another label for distribution or something else??? lots of questions there he...