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Wall Street Journal Online
Subscribe and get 2 weeks free. Subscription gets you sophisticated research tools, exclusive content, portfolio tracking, personalized news, and more.

The Company Corporation
Since 1899, business owners have turned to them for their incorporating needs. You can trust their experience to create your corporation or LLC quickly and easily - online in 10 minutes or less. They even wrote the book, Incorporating
Your Business for Dummies®.

Home Business Tax Savings
Find out why people who run a small or home-based business now qualify for a greater array of tax advantages than any other category of taxpayer.
 
homejobstop.com
A resource for Home Employment.


Oracle Small Business Suite
A completely integrated system that will manage all aspects of your small business, including Accounting, Payroll, your Web presence, Bill Payment, Expense Reporting, CRM, and more. Designed for small and medium sized businesses, it gives you up-to-the-minute access to your key business information. You can grow faster, streamline your operations, and extend your business relationships. You can even upload your QuickBooks® file - and in minutes you can leverage the Internet to sell more and spend less. Sign up for the free 14-day trial today.

Bizmove.com
Free small business guides, tips, and techniques. Read the 10 deadly small business mistakes.

Inc. Magazine
Published 18 times a year, provides you with solid, practical management advice for running your small and growing business. It also gives you a sense of community — letting you know that you're not alone in the business challenges that you face. The magazine also shares the solutions that other entrepreneurs have found to those same tough problems.

Entrepreneur Magazine
Weekly topics, front page articles and various topics of interest to entrepreneurs. Subscribe to Entrepreneur Magazine

American Express Small Business Exchange
A community for Small Business Entrepreneurs.

BizBuySell
"The Internet's largest database of businesses for sale - including franchise & business opportunities".
 
Business Forum Online
Resource center for owners/managers of emerging businesses and entrepreneurs.

Business Information Centers
Part of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Provide a one-stop location where current and future small business owners can receive assistance and advice. BICs combine the latest computer technology, hardware and software, an extensive small business reference library of hard copy books and publications and current management video tapes to help entrepreneurs plan their business, expand an existing business or venture into new business areas. Primarily located in Empowerment Zones.

Business Resale Network
Free access to thousands of businesses for sale and provides you with valuable information and services.

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit
Small office and Home Office information and tools.

fambiz.com
Resource for Family Business Executives & Owners.

Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
Women in technology and life science startups. Offers programs and services that accelerate women entrepreneurs’ ability to launch and build world-class companies. Founded in 1993, FWE has offices in the Bay Area and Seattle.
 
Idea site for business
Useful ideas for creative business people.

Journal of Small Business Management
Features articles on small business research around the world. The quarterly JSBM covers many topics of interest to researchers and educators, as well as practitioners, in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business.

Office of Women's Business Ownership
Created by the U.S. Small Business Administration to to help level the playing field for women entrepreneurs. Programs to help women put together successful loan packages or break into the federal procurement and export markets. Loan guaranty programs to help those who cannot get lending through conventional channels finance their businesses. Training, advice and counseling via the At the forefront of the welfare-to-work initiative.

Power HomeBiz Guides
An online magazine designed to stimulate the entrepreneurial mind. Contains articles, tools and resources to help start, manage and grow a small business. Each month, they offer 15-20 fresh articles carefully written and researched by their editorial team.

Small Business Administration
U.S. agency that provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.
 
Small Business Advancement National Center
Located at the University of Central Arkansas. Funded by business and government agencies.

smallbusiness.com
A knowledge sharing community and collaborative search tool for small business owners, managers and those who serve them in the marketplace. It is a neutral place for the unbiased and open discussion of products, services and issues of importance to small business owners and managers. Its mission is to help its users save time by guiding them quickly to the knowledge they need to make important decisions.

Springwise
Scans more than 40 countries worldwide for new business ideas, concepts and ventures, and reports their findings in a free monthly newsletter. They provide a unique, inspirational source for entrepreneurs, marketers, consultants and business development managers.

Success.org
They offer a free 30 lesson course in starting a small business.

TotallySmallBusiness.com
A focused category-based business directory developed exclusively for small businesses, entrepreneurs and the self-employed.

U. S. Senate Committee on Small Business
Explains the issues facing small businesses today and what the Committee is doing to promote the efficiency and productivity of the small business community.

U.S. Business Advisor
Provides business with one-stop access to U.S. federal government information, services, and transactions. Goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive

Home-Based Business

Business@Home
Making a life while making a living.

International Homeworkers Association
Helping people prosper in the home workplace.

Organizations

National Association for the Self-Employed
A membership organization with a long list of benefits.

National Business Incubation Association
Provides a clearinghouse of information on the business incubation industry.

National Federation of Independent Business
News, views & tools on politics and business management from the number 1 small business advocate in America, representing 600,000 members from every industry.

Service Corp. of Retired Executives (SCORE)
More than 12,000 volunteer business counselors ready to share their expertise through free and confidential business advice. Counseling by email, workshops, or personal meeting.


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