Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Debt Financing for Small Businesses
This site discusses the meaning of debt financing. Helpful links on bank selection, types of loans, costs of loans, and criteria banks look for are given.
Nolo
Nolo: Types of Ownership Structures
This site is provided for by Nolo. Before you can decide on an ownership structure for your business, you must learn at least a little bit about how each structure works. This site provides a brief rundown of the most common forms of...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Partnership Law: An Overview
An overview of business law pertaining to the formation of a partnership.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Plan Components, Sample Plans
This resource provides examples of business plans for a manufacturing, service, and retail business. Business plan financials for each of these business types are linked.
Other
Appalachian State University: Business Letter Format
A site that lists the most important parts of a business letter. Very detailed. Also includes labeled samples of how an appropriate business letter should look.
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.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Government Financing Programs
Government loans are described with links to more detailed information on different types of loans.
Other
Business Insider: How a Top Houseware Brand Reinvents Kitchen Gadgets
Founded in 1990, Oxo is beloved by design nerds for the way that the company takes everyday objects (like the salad spinner) and finds sometimes subtle, but always clever, ways to reinvent them. The designs are based on the principle of...
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Wolters Kluwer
Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships and Ll Cs Are Commonly Used Entities
Article that looks at three types of business structures - sole proprietorships, partnerships and limited liability companies - and what the tax and non-tax implications are for each.
Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Should You Buy a Small Business Franchise?
Learn about types of franchises, some advantages and disadvantages of franchises, and other important information about them.
Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Due Dates for Returns and Payments Depend Upon Business Form
Explains what various types of businesses, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, or limited liability companies (LLC), C corporations or S corporations must do when filing their taxes.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Partnership
A definition and description of a business partnership (as well as other types of partnerships).
Other
Gunston Hall Plantation: "The Great Business Now Before Us"
In 1787, America was having big problems. There was no single type of money, or currency, in the new nation. States were arguing over trade issues and local boundaries. Each state seemed to see itself as independent and self-governing...
Other
Business Town: Point of Purchase Displays Will Dramatically Improve Your Sales
A common price-off promotional technique is point-of-purchase promotions. This site tells you all about this type of marketing. Includes a video and an accompanying article. [4:36]
University of Wisconsin
Univ. Of Wisconsin: Co Ops and You
From the University of Wisconsin's Center for Cooperatives (UWCC), this Web site for high school students and young adults offers learning modules on a number of cooperative issues as well as resources on scholarships for young...
Other
Designs by Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging
Do you want a simple introduction to blogging? This site utilizes large graphics in a step-by-step format to walk you though what a blog is, some examples of blogs, the tools of blogging, the different types of blogs, and related topics.
Other
Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Other
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Limited Partnership Information
A complete checklist of the requirements for forming a partnership in the state of Massachusetts.
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service: Sole Proprietorships
A definition of a sole proprietorship, along with links to the relevant forms that must be filed with the IRS.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Ideology
From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes the role of townsite agents who, in addition to helping plan a town, acted as 'information brokers' to advise would-be merchants of the...