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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

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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
	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)
	Understanding Marketing (SBA)
	SCORE Learning Center - Reading Room

Marketing Research, Product Development and Services	General New Product Ideas
	Pricing Right
	Pricing Your Product

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)

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 Resources (San Jose Public Library)
	Reference Help - Ask a Librarian (Santa Clara County Lib.)
	Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
	Doing Business (Santa Clara County)

Databases

Business Source
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.

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: from Research and Business Plans to Money, Marketing and the Law by Frances McGuckin 658.11 MCGUCKI 2005
	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 By Mike McKeever 658.1522 MCKEEVE 2008
	HR for Small Business: from Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between By Charles H. Fleischer 658.3 FLEISCH 2005
	Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business By Fred Steingold 346.7306 STEINGO 2006
	Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business By Fred S. Steingold 346.7306 STEINGO 2008
	Marketing Without Advertising By Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry 658.8 PHILLIP 2008
	Pratt's Guide to Private Equity Sources R 332.66 PRATT'S 2008
	Small Business Sourcebook: the Entrepreneur's Resource R 658.022 SMALL 2009
	The Small Business Start-Up Kit By Peri Pakroo 346.7306 PAKROO 2008
	The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California By Peri H. Pakroo 658.1141 PAKROO 2010
	Whoops! I'm in Business: a Crash Course in Business Basics By Richard Stim 658.11 STIM 2005