Small Business Resource Guide

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General works

*The American Bar Association legal guide for small business. New York : Three Rivers Press, 2000. (BUSINESS REFRENCE 346.065 Ame)

*Brown, W. Dean. How to form a corporation, LLC or partnership in Massachusetts. Knoxville, TN : Corporate Publishing Co., Inc., 2000. (346.73 Bro)

*Fallek, Max. How to set up your own small business. Minneapolis, Minn. : American Institute of Small Business, 2003. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.11 Fal)

*O'Neill, Julia K. and Mark Warda. How to start a business in Massachusetts. Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2004. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 346.744 One)

*Pakroo, Peri. The small business start-up kit. Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2006. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 346.0652 Pak)

*Pinson, Linda. Steps to small business start-up : everything you need to know to turn your idea into a successful business. Chicago, IL : Dearborn, 2000. (658.111 Pin)

*Small business sourcebook : the entrepreneur's resource. 2 vol. Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson/Gale, c2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.022 Sma)

*Steingold, Fred. Legal forms for starting and running a small business. Berkeley, Calif. : Nolo, 2006. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 346.73 Ste)

*Stephenson, James. The ultimate home-based handbook : how to start, run, and grow your own profitable business. Irvene, CA : Entrepreneur Press, 2004. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.0412 Ste and 658.0412 Ste)

*Stim, Richard. Patent, copyright & trademark. Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2006. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 346.048 Sti)

Business Plans

*Pinson, Linda. Anatomy of a business plan. Chicago, IL : Dearborn Trade Publishing, 2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.4012 Pin and 658.4012 Pin)

Buying or Selling a Business

*Klueger, Robert F. Buying and selling a business. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2004 (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.16 Klu)

*West, Tom. Business reference guide: the essential guide to pricing a business. Concord, MA : Business Brokerage Press, 2006. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.15 Wes)

Financial & Operating Ratios

*Bragg, Steven M. Business ratios and formulas. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2002. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 338.5 Bra)

*Troy, Leo. Almanac of business and industrial financial ratios. Chicago : CCH, 2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 338.50972 Tro)

Financing

*Evanson, David R. Where to go when the bank says no : alternatives for financing your business. Princeton, NJ : Bloomberg Press, 1998. (658.15 Eva)

*Green, Charles H. Financing the small business. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media Corporation, 2003. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.15224 Gre) Hill, Brian. Attracting capital from angels. NY : Wiley, 2002. (658.1522 Hil)

*Small business financing : how and where to get it. Chicago, Ill. : CCH Inc., 2002. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.1592 Sma)

Management

*Kamoroff, Bernard. Small time operator : how to start your own business, keep your books, pay your taxes and stay out of trouble! Laytonville, Calif. : Bell Springs Pub., 2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.022 Kam)

Marketing

*Cohen, William A. The marketing plan. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.802 Coh)

*Cole directory for Lowell and vicinity. 2006. Sharon, MA : Cole Publications. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 917.44 Col / 2006)

*Debelak, Don. Bringing your product to market-- in less than a year. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 658.575 Deb)

Statistics

*County business patterns, Massachusetts. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (BUSINESS REFERENCE 317.4 Cou)

Business Periodicals

Magazines

Business Week

Economist

Forbes

Fortune

Harvard Business Review

Inc

Newspapers

Banker & Tradesman

Barrons

Boston Business Journal

Financial Times

Investors Business Daily

Mass High Tech

Wall Street Journal

Online Databases

InfoTrac Web - access magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, and business directories. Choose General BusinessFile ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, and Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who.

Online bibliographies - useful listing of web sites for small businesses

Boston Public Library, Kirstein Business Branch - Finding funds to start a small business

Small business bibliography

Harvard Business School, Baker Library - Entrepreneurship research guide

Memorial Hall Library, Andover, MA - Business

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