MGMT 351:Entrepreneurship

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Getting Started

See also: Help Guides: Entrepreneurship

• Business and Legal Center
• Entrepreneur
• Tanned Feet ("The Entreprenuer's help page")
• Kauffman eVenturing the foundation for entrepreneurship)
• StartupJournal (wall street Journal)
• Master Small Business A course of the The American Success Institute (ASI)
• U.S. Small Business Administration The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam." See also SBA Office of Advocacy for research reports and statisticsa
• StartupJournal (Wall Street Journal) published daily

Business Plans

See also: Industry Research and Company Research (Publicly-Owned)

Company Research (Privately-Owned)and Company Research (Foreign) Guides

• allbusiness.com
• Business Plan Archive (registration required)
• Bplans.com
• Business Plan Basics (SBA)
• Business plans handbook : a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America. Ref HD62.7 .B865 2007
• Tanned Feet ("The Entreprenuer's help page")
• The Plan: A Step-by-Step Business Plan Workbook

• Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/franchise/netfran.htm
• Franchising.com

Competitive Landscape

The best way to compete is to acquire in depth knowledge of what your competitors are doing. Use the following to locate company reports and articles

• ABI/Inform Global R
• Lexis-Nexis Universe R
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
• United States Securities and Exchange Commission
• Value Line Investment Survey --> This service is available for on-campus use only, in Business Library. R A looseleaf paper copy is also on Reserve.

Electronic Journals

To locate electronic journals go to Sterling and choose a subject search, for example: Entrepreneurship ejournals

Industries Analyses

Industrial and economic activities are organized by a number of classification schemes. These classification schemes are used toclassify establishments by their primary type of activity; organize the presentation of statistical data and are designed to allow comparison of data on a year-by-year basis; and/or comparison between countries which use the same scheme.

• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) has been replaced by the new North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Some sources are still available with SIC-based data.
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America.
• North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) is now available for products of service industries (sectors 51-81). (NAPCS will focus on manufacturing products at a later date; for existing census codes, see the Numerical List.)
• HTS - Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
• Numerical List of Manufactured and Mineral Products includes the principal products and services of the manufacturing and mining industries in the United States. The data for these products and services were collected in the 1997 Economic Census.

Some major resources for industry analysis include:

• Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive) [No proxy service for remote access; user must be on campus network proper] R
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage R
• Value Line Investment Survey --> This service is available for on-campus use only, in Business Library. R A looseleaf paper copy is also on Reserve.
  

• Lexis-Nexis Universe R
• Small Business Retirement Savings Advisor http://www.dol.gov/elaws/pwbaplan.htm
• Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/franchise/netfran.htm
• Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprises (U.S. Census) http://www.census.gov/csd/mwb/

• A Venture Capital Primer for Small Business (U.S. Small Business Administration) http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/fm-5.txt   . Small Business ministration)    
• Business Finance.Com http://www.businessfinance.com
• U.S. Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov
• vFinance.com http://www.vfinance.com

• Lexis-Nexis Universe R
• Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR)

• bizjournals
• Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive) [No proxy service for remote access; user must be on campus network proper] R
• Individual.com (customized news service)
• IndustryWatch
• Lexis-Nexis Universe R
• MarketWatch from Dow Jones
• PRNewswire
• Washington Business Journal