Great Resources for Biz Owners & Entrepreneurs

Following are useful resources for businessleaders, entreprenuers, professionals interested in starting their own business or executives looking for additional support:

1) Business Ideas
a. www.business-idea.com
b. www.coolbusinessideas.com

2) Women & Minorities
a. www.wbenc.org
b. www.NAWBO.org
c. www.sba8a.com

3) Industry Research:
a. http://forum.researchinfo.com
b. http://business.statelibrary.sc.gov/images/6/65/Business_Research_Workshop_Resource_List-SC.pdf

4) Business Resources:
a. Market Research
b. MapStat
c. www.BusinessBalls.com
d. www.timethoughts.com/goalsetting/vision-statements.htm

5) Customer Research/Surveys:
a. Zoomerang
b. Survey Monkey

6) Develop Strategic Plans, Business Plans & Financial Statements
a. NYC Business Solutions Center (SEEDCo): www.seedco.org
b. Small Business Development Centers
c. SCORE: www.score.org
d. http://articles.bplans.com/category/writing-a-business-plan
e. www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/plan/writeabusinessplan/index.html
f. www.onepagebusinessplan.com/about.html
g. www.ehow.com/how_4421284_format-income-statement.html
h. http://entrepreneurs.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_create_an_income_statement

7) General Management
a. www.businessmanagementdaily.com
b. American Management Assn.

8) Marketing & Product Development:
a. www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/term/82498.html
b. www.persuasivebrands.com/showpagecontent.aspx?pagename=Brand_Definition
c. http://resources.bnet.com/topic/product+development.html
d. www.productdevelopmentstrategies.com/blog
e. www.slideshare.net/nusantara99/new-product-development-strategy
f. www.knowthis.com/principles-of-marketing-tutorials/managing-products
g. http://resources.bnet.com/topic/product+life+cycle.html
h. www.websitemarketingplan.com
i. American Marketing Assn.
j. Direct Marketing Assn.
k. Business Marketing Assn.

9) General Business Information
a. US Small Business Administration
b. National Business Information Clearinghouse
c. Microsoft Small Biz Ctr: www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx
d. CNN Money - http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com

10) Social Media
a. Mashable
b. SocialMediaGovernance.com

11) Entrepreneurial Pursuits
a. www.Inc.com
b. www.myownbusiness.org
c. www.Entrepreneur.com
d. www.Entrepreneurship.org
e. Smart Entrepreneur - www.smartentrepreneur.net
f. Entrepreneur Week: www.nycentweek.com
g. www.psw-ny.com/documents/WP1-BeforeNegotiations-031307.pdf
h. www.psw-ny.com/documents/WP4-StartUpMap-063008F.pdf
i. www.psw-ny.com/documents/PDF-WP3-InvestableBusCase-092506F.pdf
j. http://blog.entrepreneur.com
k. www.entrepreneurship.org/PolicyForum/Blog/post/2010/01/28/Tapping-your-
Entrepreneurial-IQ.aspx
l. www.elientrepreneur.com

12) Franchising
a. International Franchising Assn. www.franchise.org
b. www.masterfranchisewealth.com/4436.html
c. IFA Annual Conference - www.franchise.org/convention.aspx

13) Networking:
a. MeetUp.com
b. LinkedIn.com
c. National Small Biz Assn: www.nsba.biz
d. Chambers of Commerce
e. Rotary Clubs
f. Kiwanis Clubs
g. Twitter
h. StumbleUpon
i. FourSquare
j. MySpace
k. Delicious
l. Digg

14) Investors
a. www.youngstartup.com
b. NY Angels: www.newyorkangels.com
c. LI Angels: http://liangels.angelgroups.net

15) Business Incubators (NY fous)
b. Biz. Incubator Assn. of NY State: http://bianys.com
c. Brooklyn Biotech: http://research.downstate.edu/incubator.htm
d. NYC BioScience Initiative: www.nycbiotech.org/east_river.html
e. LI High Tech Incubator: http://www.lihti.org
f. Your local atrea Colleges & Universities

What resources would you recommend?