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Small Business Resources

We Mean Business - Resources for Starting and Running a Small Business

Workshops
Web Resources
Databases
E-books
Printed Books

Workshops

More workshops to be scheduled soon!

Web Resources

Choosing a Business Safest and Riskiest Business
  Low Cost Startup Ideas
   
Business Plan Writing your Business Plan
  Business Plan Basics
  Essential Elements of a good Business Plan for Growing Companies
  Developing a business plan
  Templates for your Business
   
Financing Getting Financing for Your Business
  Quick Pick Chart for Financing Sources
  Equity Financing
  Government Financing Programs
  California Local Offices (SBA)
   
Marketing and Sales Sales and Marketing (Allbusiness.com)
  Marketing Your Product (CCH Business Owner's Toolkit)
  Sales and Marketing (Entrepreneur.com)
  Understanding Marketing (SBA)
  SCORE Learning Center - Reading Room
   
Marketing Research, Product Development and Services General New Product Ideas
  Pricing Right
  Ask SCORE: Select a SCORE counselor by expertise
  Pricing Your Product
  SCORE online workshop: Pricing products and services
   
Trademark and Intellectual Property Protection U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Trademarks page
  Nolo.com
  California Business Search
   
Legal California Law (Legislative Counsel of California)
  Business Laws (Business.gov)
  Protecting Your Assets
   
Employees People Who Work For You
  Hiring Employees (Realsmallbusiness.com)
  Benefits for Your Employees
   
Technology Consumersearch.com
  Tech (Entrepreneur.com)
  Managing Your Business - Technology (SBA)
  Building a website
   
Women and Minority Business SBA's Women page
  SBA's Minority Page
  SCORE's Women Entrepreneurs page
  SCORE's Minority Entrepreneurs Page
  SCORE Help for Veteran, National Guard & Reservists
   
Services to Small Businesses Small Business Information Store (San Jose Public Library)
  Reference Help - Ask a Librarian (Santa Clara County Lib.)
  Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
  Doing Business (Santa Clara County)

Databases

Associations Unlimited
Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. nonprofit organizations.
 
Business and Company Resource Center
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. It includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
 
Business Source Premier
This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
 
General Business File ASAP
A database on business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
 
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
 
Reference USA
Is a searchable database of residential and business information. The business module contains information on over 13 million US businesses, and the residential module contains information on 120 million US households.

E-Books

Netlibrary Small Business Collection

Printed Books

business for beginners Business for Beginners: from Research and Business Plans to Money, Marketing and the Law
by Frances McGuckin
658.11 MCGUCKI 2005
hoe to raise capital How to Raise Capital: Techniques and Strategies for Financing and Valuing Your Small Business
by Jeffry A. Timmons
658.1592 TIMMONS 2005
how to write a business plan How to Write a Business Plan
By Mike McKeever
658.1522 MCKEEVE 2007
HR for samll business HR for Small Business: from Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between
By Charles H. Fleischer
658.3 FLEISCH 2005
leagal forms for starting and running a small business Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
By Fred Steingold
346.7306 STEINGO 2006
Legal Guide for Starting and Running a Small business Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
By Fred S. Steingold
346.7306 STEINGO 2006
 Marketing without advertising  Marketing Without Advertising
By Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry
658.8 PHILLIP 2005
  Pratt's Guide to Private Equity Sources
R 332.66 PRATT'S 2005
Small Business Sourcebook Small Business Sourcebook: the Entrepreneur's Resource
R 658.022 SMALL 2005
The Small Business Start-Up Kit The Small Business Start-Up Kit
By Peri Pakroo
346.7306 PAKROO 2006
The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California
By Peri H. Pakroo
658.1141 PAKROO 2006
Whoops! I'm in Business: A Crash Course in Business Basics Whoops! I'm in Business: a Crash Course in Business Basics
By Richard Stim
658.11 STIM 2005

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