Small Business News
Small Business News
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Small Businesses
- Contra Costa Small Business Development Center
Connect to your local SBDC to see what programs and resources are available. - West Contra Costa Business Development Center Services include sales & marketing assistance, business training, business plan development, loan packaging, and start-up support.
- Doing Business in Concord Dedicated to communicating information on City initiatives, programs, and services to business owners interested in locating or expanding their businesses in Concord. Includes consumer expenditures, business counts, demographics, and available sites.
- Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse This organization provides research support to over 900 small business development centers in the U.S. They maintain an extensive Web page.
- Starting a Business from the IRS Provides information to assist in making basic business decisions.
- The Small Business Economy: A report to the President
This annual report has been published since 1982. It continues to serve as a reference source to business owners, policymakers, and researchers when they need information on small business' performance in the economy.
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.
Home-based Businesses
- Business@Home Provides pratical information to home-based businesses.
- Fambiz.com This nonprofit organization serves executives and owners of family-controlled businesses.
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 Own Business in a Recession
A KPIX newscast , Riding Out the Recession, profiles two New Venture Training Graduates.
- New Venture Training Newscast Plays after ad
- Contra Costa Small Business Development Center Their New Venture Training Program
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
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.
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