Ready to Start a Business?
This is a 5 minute test from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help you decide if you are ready to start a business
Reference Books
- Encyclopedia of Small Business
This source provides the information you need to help your business succeed. Designed for ease of use, it includes 505 essays in two volumes arranged alphabetically by topic from American Accounting Association to Zoning Ordinances. - Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
Organized by industry, this resource lists general works, indexes, directories, associations, online databases, periodicals & newsletters, research centers and statistical sources. - Small Business Sourcebook
This bibliography lists books and articles on starting specific businesses. The second volume covers business topics and lists helpful state agencies.
The Small Business Sourcebook Online
Contra Costa library card holders may search the Small Business Sourcebook 2009 in the Small Business Resource Center database for information on starting a particular type of business.
For different businesses, there is a "bibliography" giving: associations, trade publications, and magazine articles that may also be available fulltext in this or other databases.
View an Example using the Advanced Search screen where keyword = accounting and publication title = Small Business Sourcebook
(From there, click on the Advanced Search tab to enter a different business)
Starting Your Small Business
More information on business training is on the Education & Research page of this guide.
- Contra Costa Small Business Development Center
The Contra Costa Small Business Development center offers training and consulting services to small business. - West Contra Costa Business Development Center Services include sales & marketing assistance, business training, business plan development, loan packaging, and start-up support.
- Women's Initiative Since 1988, Women's Initiative has been assisting high-potential low-income women who dream of business ownership. Through an intensive 20 session program — in English or Spanish — women are enabled to start, or expand their business.
- Entrepreneurial Resource CenterThis website created by Las Positaas College aims to help entrepreneurs in the Tri-Valley region successfully start, run & grow their business.
- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center Renaissance, located in S.F., provides programs and services that support the life cycle of a business, and provides access to the tools, information, networks and resources for every stage of business development
- ANewAmerica AnewAmerica offers a comprehensive three-year program of support for new American entrepreneurs including microbusiness incubation, asset building, and social responsibility.
- New Venture Training Newscast - CCSBDC programPlays after ad
- Small Business Start UpFrom the California Governor's Office of Economic Development
Resources from the Federal Government
- The National Veterans Business Development Corporation Provides Veterans with the tools they need to be successful in business: access to capital, entrepreneurial education, access to markets, access to services, and business networking.
- The United States Smal Business Administration, Regional Office The SBA provides help to start and grow small businesses
- Bus.gov Guides you through the maze of government rules and regulations and provides access to services and resources to help you start, grow, and succeed in business.
- US Business Advisory Offers small businesses online access to information and services provided by the federal government.
- Starting Buisness from the IRSProvides information to assist in making basic business decisions
- Small Business Development Center National Information ClearinghouseThis organization provides research support to over 900 small business development centers in the U.S. They maintain an extensive Web page.
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Finding Trade Publications
In addition to contacting your trade or professional association to see if they publish a magazine, journal or newsletter, you will find names of suggested trade magazines listed in these reference books at several libraries.
Small Business Sourcebook
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
Standard Periodical Directory
- What Is a Trade Journal?
- Entrepreneur Magazine Trade Journal DirectorySearch by industry to find publications to purchase. information
- Ultimate List of Business Publications
- Trade MagazinesFree or free for a limited time, trade magazines and white papers from AllBUSINESS.
Entrepreneurship
- StartUp Journal: The Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs Covers many aspects of starting and running a business and includes excellent articles.
- Entrepreneurial Edge The Edward Lowe Foundation provides information services for small business entrepreneurs.
- Entrepreneur.com This commercial site provides advice for small businesses and includes articles from Entrepreneur Magazine. This magazine is also available in full-text from our General Onefile database.
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