General Sites | Small Business Sites
General Business Information
- American Society of Association Executives - Links to over 1700 professional associations via a searchable database.
- The Better Business Bureau - Includes United States and Canada BBB's.
- BNET - Business Thought Leadership Directory.
- Bschool.com - The goal of this site is to provide a link to every undergraduate, graduate, and executive education business program Web site.
- BizLink - A general site of business sources, from the Public Library in Charlotte, NC.
- Business.com - An annotated directory listing business sites in over 30 categories.
- Business and Finance Resources - From Special Libraries Association
- Business and Market Intelligence
- Business Forecasting - A link to a variety of sources concerning business forecasting.
- Businessweek's Best Business Schools
- Chambers of Commerce - A worldwide directory of chambers of commerce. Searchable by name, city, state or province.
- Commerce Business Daily - The Commerce Business Daily lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.
- The Corporate Library - This site focuses on corporate governance topics.
- Digital-Woman.com - The site offers a huge collection of resources, including informative articles, manuals, free software, Web tools, and advice, as well as ten free newsletters and mailing lists.
- Explorit Now! - A business research portal
- Fortune 500
- Harvard Business School Research Guides - Guides for researching a variety of areas such as Companies, Industries and International.
- HBS Working Knowledge - A collection of management information from the Harvard Business School.
- Hispanic Business - A daily news feed of articles of interest to the Hispanic business community.
- How Much Information - A study on how much information is produced each year.
- Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 - The Inc. 500 is Inc. magazine's annual list of America's fastest-growing private companies.
- InvestorWords - Contains definitions of more than 4,000 investing and business-related terms.
- IOMA (Institute of Management Administration) - The homepage for IOMA, contains business and management information sites.
- Knowledge Management - A bibliographic resource.
- Management - from Emerald - Resources on Management Theory and Practice.
- MBA Depot - Resources pertaining to MBA programs as well as information on how to succeed with your MBA.
- MBA Info - Details of 2250 MBA programs from 1160 Universities, Business Schools and Management Colleges in 127 countries worldwide.
- Price's List of Lists - A collection of lists of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc.
- News Now - Breaking business news from around the country.
- The Salary Calculator - Use this calculator to compare the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.
- Salary.com
- Topix.net - Business News
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Includes information about domestic and international patents.
- Wall Street Executive Library - A one-stop resource for CEOs in Canada, this portal includes news, reference tools, and a search engine directory. Websites are organized by country, mainly focusing on resources from Canada and the United States.
- Washington Post 200 - Top 200 companies in the Washington DC area.
- Women and Business - This site is a selective, annotated list of links to Internet resources on women and business.
- Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor - A federal agency mandated to represent the needs of wage-earning women in the public policy process.
- The Word Spy - This site is intended to focus attention on "recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are now being used in new ways."
Small Business Information
- About's Small Business - Small business resources from About.com
- BizMove.com - A resource of small business information.
- Commerce Clearing House Business Owners Toolkit - A guide for the beginner.
- Edward Lowe Solutions Network - "Championing the Entrepreneurial Spirit"
- Entrepreneurs' Help Page - The articles on this page are divided into three main sections: Business, Financial, and Legal and offer advice on starting your own business.
- The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information - Maintained by the Library of Congress.
- Eventuring - A world of resources for entrepreneurs.
- FindLaw Small Business - A well organized and comprehensive site to find information on nearly all aspects of starting and running a business.
- Franchise411
- Franchise Zone - Maintained by Entrepreneur Magazine.
- Franchises and Business Opportunites - From the Federal Trade Commission.
- Guerrilla Marketing Online- A weekly web magazine for small business entrepreneurs, sales people and marketers of all kinds.
- Guides@Inc.com - A collection of articles and tools on small business.
- The 'Lectric Law Library - A selection of standard general business forms (contracts, bill of sale, promissory notes)as well as typical articles of incorporation, partnership agreements, corporate by-laws and employment forms.
- MoreBusiness- Information on start-up, finance, and business planning.
- Quicken.Com Small Business - Provides information on a range of small business topics including: starting, managing, marketing, legal issues, taxes, employment, and payroll.
- Reference for Business - Contains Gale's Encyclopedia of Small Business
- SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) - The SCORE Association (Service Corps of Retired Executives) is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide.
- The Small and Home Based Business Library - A comprehensive business reference site for owners of small and home-based businesses.
- Small Business.com
- Small Business Links - Maintained by The Michigan Electronic Library.
- Startup Journal - from the Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs
- US Business Advisor - Created by the Small Business Administration.
- US Small Business Administration - The U.S. Small Business Administration provides financial, technical and management assistance to Help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.
- Women's Business Center - Combining the resources of the US Small Business Administration (SBA), several major corporate sponsorships, including IBM and GTE, and more than 60 SBA-affiliated women's resource centers nation-wide, the Women's Business Center strives to Help female entrepreneurs succeed in the realm of business.
- Young Americas Business Trust - Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), is a network for those in the Western Hemisphere starting new business endeavors.
- Young Entrepreneurs Organization - The YEO mission is to support, educate and encourage young entrepreneurs to succeed in building companies and themselves.