Starting Your Own Business Resource Guide

Realize the dream of starting your own business

1. Writing a Business Plan

Ernst & Young: Guide to Producing a Business Plan

SCORE: Start-Up Business Plan Printable Template

Internal Revenue Service: Guide to Starting a Business

2. Raise Capital

Inc.com: Angel Investor Directory

BusinessWeek.com: Rules for Raising Capital

3. Manage Your Finances

Entrepreneur.com: The Basics of Money Management

Quicken Home and Business Software

Peachtree Accounting Software

4.  Do the Paperwork

Internal Revenue Service: Checklist for Starting a Business

5. Market Your Business

Inc.com: Grassroots Marketing

Toolkit.com: Marketing Your Small Business

6. In-Depth Guides

The Wall Street Journal: Center for Entrepreneurs

Inc. Magazine: Guide to Starting a Small Business

Internal Revenue Service: Guide to Starting a Business

Small Business Administration: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Small Business Administration: Online Women's Business Center

Entrepreneur.com: Startup How-to Guides

Nonprofit Business Association Women Entrepreneurs Inc.

7. Cool Online Tools

Forbes.com: Entrepreneur’s Toolkit

SCORE: Business Toolbox

12 Websites You Need To Be Using As An Entrepreneur

• • Work & Career

• Founder of Subway's Success Story
• How a 17-year-old built a multimillion-dollar business one sandwich at a time.
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• Got a Dream?
• Here's how to make it happen.
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• Get Out of Your Own Way
• Are you standing in the way of your own success?
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• Cash Now
• Your hobby + a computer = extra money
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• Turn Your Computer Into a Cash Machine
• Your hobby + a computer = extra money.
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• How Famous People Achieved Their Dreams
• Seven inspiring stories of people who proved the naysayers wrong.
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