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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 coming 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
  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 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 2008
HR for samll business HR for Small Business: from Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between
By Charles H. Fleischer
658.3 FLEISCH 2005
legal 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 2008
 Marketing without advertising  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 Small Business Sourcebook: the Entrepreneur's Resource
R 658.022 SMALL 2009
The Small Business Start-Up Kit The Small Business Start-Up Kit
By Peri Pakroo
346.7306 PAKROO 2008
The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California 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 Whoops! I'm in Business: a Crash Course in Business Basics
By Richard Stim
658.11 STIM 2005

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