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Help for Growing and Starting Your Small Business
"From 200+ ways to be your own boss and how to calculate your start-up costs to sample business plans and more all from Business Know-How."
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Biz Filings: Small Business Guide: Finding the Right Small Business for You
This site provides tips on choosing a business that fits your knowledge and skills. Very useful links to help you analyze consumers' wants and evaluate your skills to match those wants. Learn the common mistakes that other business...
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Defining Your Work Area
This site discusses the functionality and cost of locating your business in the home. Topics such as the type of business and why you chose the home to locate your business are discussed. A link to income tax write-offs is provided.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: What Are Your Goals?
This site discusses the economic, personal, and retirement goals of an entrepreneur. The importance of goals and quantifying them in relation to business plans are linked.
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Small Business Administration: Starting a Business
Find out if you have what it takes to be a small business owner. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses through these topics.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Personal Strength and Weakness Assessment Checklist
This resource contains a checklist rating your strengths and weaknesses as a small business owner. The necessary skills for starting a business are displayed in a chart.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Business
In this lesson plan students will explore the steps involved in starting a new business. This will include preparing a ten-page Business Plan, building a model of the business, and presenting the business idea in a role-play situation...
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Understanding the Requirements of Business Ownership
The advantages and disadvantages of owning your own business are listed. Includes the pros and cons of a home-based business as well.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Getting Financing for Your Business
This site discusses the financial stage your business is at since a start-up business will require different financing needs than an aging business. Many helpful links to different types of financing are provided.
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Small Business Association: Is Entrepreneurship for You?
In the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Startup Kit, this section walks you through the characteristics required to be an entrepreneur. It concludes with the advantages of owning your own business.
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Businessfinance.com: Business Development
This is an excellent resource to consult for help in starting or growing a small business. A listing of counselors by state is provided.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Debt Financing for Small Businesses
Recommends ways to finance a sole proprietorship and gives the advantages/disadvantages of a sole proprietorship.
Wolters Kluwer
Doing a Financial and Legal Assessment of Your New Business Idea
Finding the money needed to start a new business is almost always one of the most difficult hurdles new owners face. This site tells how to find the money you need even when you think it's not possible.
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Small Business Advisor: Homepage
The qualities of an entrepreneur are discussed in detail. This site from the Small Business Advisor guides you through a series of questions for a self-evaluation. Link to The Advisor under Contents followed by Starting a Business.
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Business Owners' Idea Cafe
Have you ever wanted to start your own business? The Idea Cafe provides a variety of resources to assist you in taking the first steps towards business ownership.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Outlook on Money: Growing a Business
Meet a vegetable farmer from Hooksett, NH, who shares his experiences as a small business owner. Gives tips and advice for starting a business and for how to take advantage of helpful resources to pursue entrepreneurial dreams. Includes...
Biz Move
Biz Move: Borrowing for Your Business
The basic fundamentals of borrowing money are discussed. Topics such as credit worthiness, types of loans, collateral, etc. are included.
Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Business Startup Financing
This site from the CCH Business Owners Toolkit provides several sources to use for Starting a New Business on a Small Budget. Considering Pros and Cons Before Buying a Franchise, Managing Cash Flow Peaks and Valleys for a New Business,...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Building a Dream
This site talks about a young man who has started his own business and tells the story of how he started the company "2nd Gear Bicycles." Gives young entrepreneurs a great way to learn about starting your own business.
Employment Spot
Employment Spot: Entrepreneurs
Starting your own business can be a daunting task. But for many, the idea of working for themselves rather than a large corporation is a dream come true. And although it can be a lot of hard work, owning your own business can be...
Biz Move
Biz Move: What Business Should You Start
Discover the advantages and disadvantages of running your own business. This article also discusses characteristics of an entrepreneur and tips on choosing a business.
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The Entrepreneur's Mind
Web resource that presents an array of real-life stories and advice from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts on the many different facets of entrepreneurship and emerging business.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an internationally recognized daily business newspaper published in New York City. Content includes headline news about investments, marketing, management, and finance for business professionals. Unfortunately...