As I alluded to in my last post, I am beginning a series of pieces that will provide detailed summaries of information freely available for start ups, small businesses and entrepreneurs. To get this series rolling, I will state the obvious, government resources will/should become your best friend. The grandfather of these is the US Small Business Administration.
Every state has at least on district office for the SBA, and numerous college and university resources guides. My next piece will attempt to provide links state level resources for small businesses, that come from sources other than these federal district office or colleges and universities. Also most states have regional offices within them. I am attempting to link to the state level offices to manage the length of the list... but here are some quick web searching tips:
search for:
name of state AND "small business development"
should result in these regional and college sites
name of state AND "small business grants"
should result in sites focused on funding small business development
The remaining pieces will then get into specific resources for the specific aspects of starting and running a small business: writing a business plan, industry and market analysis, demographic information, competitive intelligence, funding.
I welcome thoughts, suggestions and comments.
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