Mission Community Services Corporation

RESOURCES

Toolbox for starting your own business <click here>

Internet Research Links for Business Information & Research

Newspapers & Periodicals

American City Business Journals www.amcity.com
Virtual Reference Desk www.refdesk.com/paper.html
New York Times (today's edition only) www.nytimes.com
Washington Post washingtonpost.com
Newspage (industry news) www.individual.com (portions are fee-based)
Wall Street Journal (fee) www.wsj.com
Harper's Magazine www.harpers.org
Business Week www.businessweek.com
Nonprofit Times www.nptimes.com
Inc Online www.inc.com

Fast Company www.fastcompany.com
Newsbot (Wired news service) www.newsbot.com
Zap Data www.zapdata.com (access to Industry reports & market analysis by state, metro areas)

Crain's Small Business http://www.chicagobusiness.com/

Links to media, newspapers & magazines http://lii.org/search/file/newsmedia

US Government

First Gov for Businesses & Non Profits http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Business_Gateway.shtml

US Small Business Administration www.sba.gov

SBA’s online training (Short, self-paced on-line courses on numerous topics from Starting a Business, Marketing, Employee Management to Government Contracting, etc) http://www.sba.gov/training/courses.html

Online Women’s Business Center http://www.onlinewbc.gov/ and http://www.sba.gov/women/

US Patent & Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/

US Bureau of the Census www.census.gov
Government Printing Office http://www.gpo.gov/
Library of Congress card catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/
Index of state & local govts online http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html
Consumer Information Center www.gsa.gov/staff/pa/cic
SEC's Edgar database of corporate info www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm

Federal Trade Commission Franchise & Business Opportunities http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-fran.htm

Free & Secure Trade Program www.cpb/gov/xp/cgov/import

US Treasury Customs www.customs.ustreas.gov

Exporting www.export.gov

Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.gov/

Federal Reserve Bank - The Biege Book (anecdotal information on current economic conditions) http://www.minneapolisfed.org/bb/

Federal Reserve Board Guide to Business Credit http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/buscredit/default3.htm

Federal Grants - Small Business Innovative Research Grants http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/othersbir.htm

California Government

California Business Permits Made Simple www.calgold.ca.gov

California Professional & Business License Handbook http://commerce.ca.gov/ttca/business/licensehandbook.pdf

California Business Portal (help with deciding on form of ownership) http://www.ss.ca.gov/business/business.htm

Private

The Kauffman Business EKG (free business financial benchmarking service) www.businessekg.com

Building Wealth http://www.dallasfed.org/ca/wealth/index.html

Dun & Bradstreet www.dnb.com

Biz Stats www.BizStats.com

Thomas Net http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html
Small Business Advisor isquare.com (links & resources by state)
The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/bus00.00.00/

Virtual Library Business Webliography www.lib.lsu.edu/weblio.html#business
Individual phone & address lookup service www.whitepages.com
Business phone & address lookup service www.yellowpages.com
Find associations www.ipl.org/div/aon/

Find Wholesalers www.toptenwholesale.com

Directory of Associations & Institutes www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr/asso.html

Regional/Metro

Citysearch www.citysearch.com
Yahoo! Metro www.yahoo.com (see bottom of yahoo.com)
Excite Travel www.excite.com/travel

Newsgroups and Listservs

Directory of email discussion groups liszt.com
DejaNews (search newsgroup archives) www.dejanews.com
Listserv List Reference www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

Search Tools

Google www.google.com
Yahoo! www.yahoo.com
AltaVista www.altavista.com
Infoseek www.infoseek.go.com
Hotbot www.hotbot.com
DogPile www.dogpile.com

Other

Find California Businesses for Sale www.Bizben.com

Business to Buy and Sell http://www.bizbuysell.com/

Start Up Checklists http://toolkit.cch.com/tools/strtch_m.asp and

http://www.startupnation.com/pages/start/10steps.asp

Private databases (available at the Mission Business Information Center and some libraries, but not via the Internet)

The Federal Technology Funding Guide 2005 published by the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance

FULL LISTING OF BOOKS, VIDEO TAPES AND PERIODICALS AVAILABLE IN THE MISSION BUSINESS INFORMATION CENTER

Business Dateline CD-ROM (full-text articles from 100s of regional publications)
ABI Inform CD-ROM (citations/abstracts from 800+ business and mgmnt periodicals)
Wall Street Journal Ondisc,

New York Times Ondisc