Business Plans

Bplans.com and Center for Business Planning have sample plans and writing tips.
www.bplans.com and www.businessplans.org
Business Plans & Profiles Index lists plans by business type and directs you to the source.
www.clpgh.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html
BusinessPlanGuide has resources to help in writing a business plan.
www.smallbusinessplanguide.com
Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh Has hundreds of example business plans. www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html
Economic Fuel Humboldt County's Business Plan Challenge. Excellent links and resources for business plan creation. www.economicfuel.org

Entrepreneurship and How-To Sources

SBDCNet Business information, help, and examples.
SBA Office of Advocacy has information and ACE-Net, Angel Capital, Electronic Network.
www.sba.gov/ADVO
SBA's Online Women's Business Center has resources for women entrepreneurs.
www.onlinewbc.gov
Minority Business Development Agency has the self-registering Phoenix database of minority entrepreneurs.
www.mbda.gov
Knowthis.com is a meta-site with links to marketing-related topics.
www.knowthis.com
StartupJournal.com has start-up information and databases of businesses for sale and venture capital from the Wall Street Journal.
www.startupjournal.com
Business Week Center has articles, tips and information on small business.
www.businessweek.com/smallbiz
TannedFeet.com This is one of my favorite sites for entrepreneurial forms and information.
PeerSpectives has information, tips, success stories and links.
www.peerspectives.org
Inc.com is the Web site of Inc. Magazine.
www.inc.com
Entrepreneur.com has start-up ideas, resources and articles.
www.entrepreneurmag.com
eVenturing includes “the best of the best” on the Web about running a small business.
www.eVenturing.org
FindLaw has legal information, guides, sample forms and other legal resources.
www.smallbiz.findlaw.com
Quicken.com has accounting and tax information, forms and other business planning tools.
www.quicken.com/small_business
IRS' Digital Daily has resources for employers and tax and wage information for new and existing businesses.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/index.html
PreFlight PowerTips has audio resources to help coach entrepreneurs.
www.preflightpowertips.com

Financing Resources

Grants.gov is a good site to use when searching for Federal grants funding.
www.grants.gov
Capital Connection describes various capital sources and services.
www.capital-connection.com
Choose Leasing has leasing information, leasing vs. buying, plus a directory of leasing companies.
www.chooseleasing.org
The Small Business Administration has a number of loan programs. The SBA sets the guidelines for loans while SBA's partners – lenders, community development organizations, and microlending institutions – make the loans to small businesses.
www.sba.gov/financing
Economic development organizations or corporations have various financing programs. BusinessFinance.com offers a list of economic development organization in CA.
www.businessfinance.com/economic-development-centers-list.htm?state=California
Directory of Local Governments' Web Sites – unique or specialized financing sources may be available in your locality. Check appropriate county, municipal, city or township web sites for information. Look in Government in CA then click on CA Local Governments.
www.state.ca.us
Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC) provide long-term debt and equity growth capital licensed under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. CA SBICs that are members of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies
http://www.sba.gov/idc/groups/public/documents/sba_program_office/inv_sbicca.txt
Venture Capital firms may be a source of financing. There are a number of venture capital directories on the web. The Infon Venture Capital Directory is free to search and provides some contact information for free.
www.infon.com
National Venture Capital Association Member Directory is a comprehensive, print directory of NVCA members.
www.nvca.org
vFinance.com allows searching by state, industry and dollar amount for venture capital. Contact information is about $2 per contact.
www.vfinance.com
BusinessFinance.com allows users to enter details about the financing needed and then returns a list of potential sources.
www.businessfinance.com/default.asp
Trends in Venture Capital Funding reports on venture capital nationally.
www.sba.gov/advo/stats/trends_vc.pdf
Small Business Lending in the U.S. provides state-specific data including top lenders to small businesses.
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/banking.html
SBIR/STTR Funding can be used to pay for research and development for innovative companies.
www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/sbir/index.html

Small Disadvantaged Business Certification

Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) Certification Fact Sheet – learn more about the SDB program and requirements for certification.
U.S. Small Business Administration Small Disadvantaged Business Program administers the 8(a) Business Development Program and the Small Disadvantaged Business Certification Program.
www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/sdb/index.html

Miscellaneous

www.ireuse.com Recycling service for businesses to get notified about local used furniture and supplies for their offices. It’s great for new or expanding small businesses, and soimetimes free for non-profits.

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Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the University of California, Merced. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. The Central California Small Business Development Center is funded in part through a subcontract between the California State University, Fresno Craig School of Business and the University of California, Merced under the current cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.