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Entrepreneurship Online & Print Resources
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Internet Resources
Business Plans
1) SBA (US Small Business Administration)
2) CCH (Business Owner's Toolkit with sections of sample business plans)
3)Bullet Proof Business Plans
4) Center for Business Planning
5): Build a Strong Business Plan
Step-step guide to building a business plan
Demographics
California Data
1) (Financial and economic data)
Click on Finance and Economic Data
Click on California Statistical Abstract
Select individual tables under PDF
2) (Population, ethnicity, income, etc. by county) Select California under Get a Statistical Profile
Select population by county
3) Occupation, salaries and wages, health, etc.
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Rand California Statistics
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State Health Facts from Kaiser
6) Association of Bay Area Governments
US Data
1) (Consumer Expenditures)
2) (Country Business Patterns)
3) Fedstats
4)StatUSA
Product Information
1) ThomsonNet website and book
2)Simmon's Study of Markets (CD-ROM) Station #5. Information on the lifestyles, media behavior and product purchase/brand preference of the American consumer by gender, age, household income. A survey measures almost 8,000 brands in 465 product categories.
Online Journals
Biz Journals Entrepreneur Section
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
Business Plans Publishers
Nolo Press, Wiley, and Prentice Hall
Bibliographies/Online Resources
Core Publications In Entrepreneurship
National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship
University of Baltimore Langsdale Library Small Business and Entrepreneurship Bibliography
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Print Resources
Books on Entrepreneurship Success and Strategies:
Small business sourcebook : the entrepreneur's resource / Sonya D. Hill, editor. 2002/ 2 Volumes.
Entrepreneurial finance/ J. Chris Leach; Ronald W. Melicher. 2003.
The entrepreneur's desk reference: authoritative information, ideas, and solutions for your small business/ Jane Applegate. 2003.
From concept to Wall Street : a complete guide to entrepreneurship and venture capital / Oren Fuerst, Uri Geiger. 2003.
The business start-up kit / Steven D. Strauss. 2003.
Anatomy of a business plan : a step-by-step guide to building a business and securing your company's future / 2005
A general theory of entrepreneurship: the individual-opportunity nexus / Scott Shane. 2003.
New movements in entrepreneurship / edited by Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth ; 2003.
Seize the American dream: 10 entrepreneurial success strategies / by Jim H. Houtz with Kathy Heasley. 2003.
Ethics and Entrepreneurship / R. Edward Freeman and Sankaran Venataraman, Editors. 2002.
Entrepreneurial finance: a case book / Paul A. Gompers [and] William Sahlman. 2002.
Strategic entrepreneurship: creating a new mindset / edited by Michael A. Hitt ... [et al.]. 2002.
Business Plans: Selected Bibliography
Business plans handbook. 2001
Business plans handbook : a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America / Eric Hoss, editor.
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Business plans that work : includes actual plans that successfully attracted financing / Joan Gillman. Heller 2001
How to write business plan : the Internat entrepreneur's guide to everything you need to know about business plans and financing options / Joanne Eglash.
Business plans for dummies / by Paul Tiffany and Steven Peterson ; foreword by John B. Schulze 1997
Small business sourcebook : the entrepreneur's resource / Sonya D. Hill, editor. 2002/ 2 Volumes.
Inc. magazine presents how to really create a successful business plan : featuring the business plans of Pizza Hut, Software Publishing Corp., Celestial Seasonings, People Express, Ben & Jerry's / David E. Gumpert. 1996
Business plans handbook : a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America / Kristin Kahrs, editor ; Karin E. Koek, contributing editor 1995
The perfect business plan made simple / William Lasher. Lasher
Business plans that win venture capital / Terrence P. McGarty at 1989
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Select Books on Entrepreneurs:
Movers and shakers: the 100 most influential figures in modern business. 2003.
How to change the world: social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas / David Bornstein. 2003.
The change makers : from Carnegie to Gates: how the great entrepreneurs transformed ideas into industries / Maury Klein. 2003.
Betting it all: the entrepreneurs of technology / Michael S. Malone. 2002.
The Wal-Mart decade : how a generation of leaders turned Sam Walton's legacy into the world's number one company / Robert Slater. 2003.
Kitchen table entrepreneurs : how eleven women escaped poverty and became their own bosses / Martha Shirk, Anna S. Wadia ; preface by Marie C. Wilson and Sara K. Gould. 2002.
The entrepreneur's creed : the principles & passions of 20 successful entrepreneurs / Merrill J. Oster & Mike Hamel.
Market share reporter. 2004 for marketing research
Select Books on Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship:
Clusters Of Creativity : / enduring Lessons On Innovation And Entrepreneurship From Silicon Valley And Europe's Silicon Fen . 2002
Inside The Cult Of Kibu : / and Other Tales Of The Millennial Gold Rush / Lori Gottlieb & Jesse Jacobs. 2002
The Silicon Valley Edge : / a Habitat For Innovation And Entrepreneurship / Edited By Chong-Moon Lee ... [Et Al.] c2000
The Valley Of Heart's Delight : / a Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963-2001 / Michael S. Malone. 2002
Business Plans: E-books:
Go to netLibrary eBooks
Alpha teach yourself business plans in 24 hours / Michael Miller.
How to write a business plan (Nolo Press)
How to write a .com business plan: the Internet entrepreneur's guide to everything you need to know about business plans and financing options / by Joanne Eglash.
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Subscription Databases
Industry/Marketing Information
Global Market Information Database[pic][pic]
Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an online information resource providing business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 80. GMID offers a range of international market research that includes: 4 million+ statistics on industries, countries and consumers; 15,000 industry, company, country and consumer reports; daily articles offering topical reaction to news events; 25,000 sources of further research information; market share and brand share rankings … and more.
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Reference USA
Excellent database for researching competitors and marketing. Information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses and 1.3 million Canadian businesses. Can search by SIC number, sales volume, state and city, etc.
Standard and Poor's
Electronic versions of Industry Surveys (which covers trends, outlook and comparative company statistics for specific industries); Stock Guide and Bond Guide (with prices and other trading information) and Stock Reports (which reports on financial and trading activities of important companies. (Also available in print on the second floor).
Article Databases/Company News and Case Studies
Business Source Complete
Company profiles and SWOT analysis.
Indexing and full text for newspapers, books, 2,804 full text scholarly journals and standard business periodicals and country economic reports from the EIU, DRIWEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. Covers many of the top management journals including the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, MIT Sloan Management, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, and Journal of Marketing Research.
ABI/Global
Indexing and full text for scholarly journals and standard magazines in business and economics. Coverage begins in 1971.
Business Full Text
Indexing and abstracts for English language periodicals which include research journals and trade and business magazines from the year 1983. Full text of selected periodicals begins in January 1995.
Emerald Management Xtra
Access to over 130 journals in management, marketing, human resource management, management information systems, and operations management. Coverage back to 1989.
Company Directories
Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory Database
Comprehensive directory of US companies which include location, contact information, number of employees and brief executive biographies, total sales, and other data. Check here to determine if company is public or private, and parent, subsidiary or branch.
Local Company Directory
Rich's Online Directory (California)
This is a directory of California Companies. Basic search is available to anyone through the web without a subscription; Powersearch is available free at the San Jose Public Library if you have a library card or for a fee at the website.
Company Information/Profile
Factiva
Extensive company information including financial, stock quotes, key competitors, and industry reports. Can create a custom quality company report with selective coverage of the latest news articles, stock quotes, and financials. Also contains links to SEC filings.
Hoover's Company Profiles
Company capsule, financials, industry, and news articles are free; more extensive financials and company profile can only be retrieved by those with subscriptions or through Lexis-Nexis.
Financial Information
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SEC coverage, real-time and historical EDGAR filings, complete financial and management information for U.S. and foreign public companies, and mutual funds, including overviews of business activities. Although the database is called 10k, it includes many kinds of financial reports and records: 400+ data items, annual and quarterly reports and ratios, 8-year histories, links to source filing, and dynamic charting.
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Contact
Susana Liu
Reference Department, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
San José State University
408 808-2088, Susana.Liu@sjsu.edu|
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