Mission Community Services Corporation

RESOURCES

The San Luis Obispo Entrepreneurial Support Team

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 - www.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 - www.chicagobusiness.com

Links to media, newspapers & magazines - www.lii.org/search/file/newsmedia

US Government

First Gov for Businesses & Non Profits - www.firstgov.gov/Business/

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) - www.sba.gov/training/courses.html

Online Women’s Business Center - www.onlinewbc.gov - www.sba.gov/women

US Patent & Trademark Office - www.uspto.gov

US Bureau of the Census - www.census.gov
Government Printing Office - www.gpo.gov
Library of Congress card catalog - www.catalog.loc.gov
Index of state & local govts online - 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 - 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 - www.bea.gov

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

Federal Reserve Board Guide to Business Credit - www.federalreserve.gov

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

California Government

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

California Professional & Business License Handbook - www.commerce.ca.gov/ttca/business/licensehandbook.pdf

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

Private

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

Building Wealth - www.dallasfed.org/ca/wealth/index.html

Dun & Bradstreet - www.dnb.com

Biz Stats - www.BizStats.com

Thomas Net - www.thomasnet.com/index.html
Small Business Advisor isquare.com (links & resources by state)
The Internet Public Library - 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 - www.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 - www.bizbuysell.com
Start Up Checklists - www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/strtch_m.asp 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