Research Guides: Business Resources: Entrepreneurship

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Business Skill ebooks - Skillport

Small Business Reference Center This link opens in a new window Offers information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Access provided by KYVL.

Resources for Writing Business Plans

Bplans.com Your complete guide to business planning, Bplans.com has everything you need to start planning and growing your business.
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Provides over 500 searchable sample business plans. Also advice for writing plans, marketing, advertising, growing or purchasing a business.
Entrepreneurship.org "Entrepreneurship.org features a vast array of content and resources to assist entrepreneurs, business mentors, policy makers, academics and investors through each phase of the entrepreneurial process. The content ranges from resources entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship."
Minority Business Development Agency A part of the federal government, this agency provides valuable information to minority business owners and/or individuals hoping to start a business.
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Provides help guides for planning, forming, and marketing a business.
NEBS Business Plans Tool The New England Business Services, Inc. is a for-profit company. Many of their services cost money, however this business plan tool has a good layout and helps think through the information that will be required as you begin to write the plan.
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This Template is a powerful interactive tool you can use to write your own business plan in a comfortable and easy step-by-step fashion.
SCORE.org Network of free volunteer small business mentors. Includes free business templates, guides, checklists, videos, and other helpful resources to help you start and grow your small business.
Small Business Administration: Business Plan Basics The SBA has many resources for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The templates for writing business plans are among the best.
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Provides sample business plans. Provides detailed, step-by-step guides for developing and writing a comprehensive business plan.

Conducting Market Research

Census Data Platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
CFED - Development Report Card for the States The Development Report Card for the States (DRC) uses 67 measures to provide a relative, state-by-state assessment of economic development, assigning grades in three main areas: Performance (economic climate for a wage-earner), Business Vitality (economic climate for a business), and Development Capacity (how a state is positioned for the future).
Consumer Expenditure Survey
Economic Development Corporation of Indiana
Indiana Business Research Center
Indiana Business Services Division
Kentucky government resources for business
Kentucky Small Business Development Center
Kentucky State Data Center
STATS Indiana
ThomasNet Search for supplier information.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce