Resources and Research Tools

Every entrepreneur and business person has questions. This page lists some of the most comprehensive sources for the answers that you need in order to successfully launch and grow your company.

Business Research in Information & Technology

Brint develops leading edge thinking and practice on contemporary business, information, technology and knowledge management issues to facilitate organizational and individual performance, success and fulfillment.

Business.com

The leading business search engine and business directory designed to help its users find the companies, products, services, and information they need to make the right business decisions

Business.com Resource Page for Small Businesses

The Internet's only business-focused search engine and directory with more than 400,000 listings within 25,000 industry, product and service subcategories.

Dun & Bradstreet

D&B provides in-depth information about specific companies. This site can be used for sales leads, direct mail advertising, telemarketing, qualifying prospects, making credit decisions, locating suppliers, and research.

Entrepreneur.com

Comprehensive site with news, resources, tips, newsletters, how-to guides and more

eVenturing

The site provides original articles, written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, and aggregates "the best of the best" content on the Web related to starting and running high-impact companies.

Go BIG Network

The Go BIG Network is an on-line community for start-up companies. They facilitate interaction between entrepreneurs, investors, advisors, job-seekers and service providers with the goal to accelerate the growth of start-up companies by creating and facilitating valuable business connections.

Hoover's Online Business Information

Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence.

MITEF of Cambridge Knowledge Bank

Beginner and expert entrepreneurs can benefit from the three 'I's contained herein - Information, Insight and Ideas - courtesy of the Cambridge chapter of the Enterprise Forum.

MITEF of Washington-Baltimore Resources

A listing of resources to be found on the site of the DC-Baltimore chapter of the Enterprise Forum.

MIT Entrepreneurship Center Research Tools

Proven online resources courtesy of the E-Center located at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Prentice Hall's Entrepreneurship and Small Business Resource Web Site

A valuable tool for entrepreneurs and small business owners from the world's leading publisher of academic and reference textbooks.

SBA Check-List for going into Business

From the U.S. Small Business Administration's Management and Planning Series comes a useful worksheet to help you determine if you should start your own business, and if your business plan is sound.

Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse

The mission of the Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse (SBDCNET) is to meet the information needs of the SBDC community in the United States and its territories. SBDCNET serves as a resource providing timely, relevant research, web-based information, and training to SBDC counselors and their small business clients.

YoungEntrepreneur.com

An online member-based community for the young entrepreneur with high-tech abilities.

Bibliographies

Library of Congress Business Reference Services

A great resource for historical research related to businesses and industries.

MIT Entrepreneurship Center Recommended Reading List

Articles, publications and books on numerous topics of interest to the entrepreneur courtesy of the MIT Sloan School's Entrepreneurship Center.