In re the Claim of Caron

*865Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 28, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

During the period in which claimant was receiving unemployment insurance benefits, he performed various activities in connection with incorporating a retail Internet business of which he was president and 50% shareholder. Claimant engaged in increasingly time-consuming activities on behalf of the business, including opening a checking account, leasing business premises,…