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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
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A portal for entrepreneurs containing business plans, entrepreneurial articles, small business forms and related information. Includes small business encyclopedias.

Business Plans Handbook
Provides business articles for specific businesses. May provide actual sample business plan and financial data and/or guides to starting and operating business. Searchable by business.
Bplans
Provides over 500 searchable sample business plans. Also advice for writing plans, marketing, advertising, growing or purchasing a business.
Quick MBA Entrepreneurship
Presents a definition of entrepreneurship and contrasts entrepreneurship to small business. Provides a sample business plan outline that lists topics frequently covered by business plans, a business model. Provides tips for making a successful pitch to venture capitalists, including finding the right venture capital firm, building credibility, and delivering your presentation.
Entrepreneur.com - Business Plans
Inc.com
Provides links to entrepreneurial news and events. Provides how-to guides about many aspects of business including operations, leadership and strategy, business travel, sales, marketing, human resources, finance and capital, law and taxation, writing a business plan, customer service, and running a one-person business.
Small Business Administration: Business Plan Basics
Provides sample business plans. Provides detailed, step-by-step guides for developing and writing a comprehensive business plan.
Minority Business Development Agency
Provides help guides for planning, forming, and marketing a business.
How to Write a Concept Statement

ABI/INFORM Global
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A comprehensive business database covering the broadest range of business topics for both academic researchers and professionals in the workplace. In addition to thousands of scholarly journals, includes full articles from The Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. Can also be searched as part of the larger ABI/INFORM Collection.
Business Source Complete
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An all-purpose, vast business database with thousands of full-text academic journals and mainstream publications. Also includes thousands of case studies, SWOT analyses, industry reports, and a selection of brief company profiles.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
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A portal for entrepreneurs containing business plans, entrepreneurial articles, small business forms and related information. Includes small business encyclopedias.
Regional Business News
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Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating 75 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Encyclopedia of Small Business
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Articles on a wide range of small business topics.
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Mintel
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Specializes in market research reports and consumer data, primarily B2C (business to consumer) categories like food and drinks, beauty and personal care, pets, household goods, and retail and apparel.
SimplyAnalytics
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Web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization of demographic variables, psychographic variables, and business locations. Map any area down to the US census block level. Add map data data variables and create custom reports. Includes MRI-SimmonsLOCAL and EASI customer data.
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Specializes in market research reports and news articles, primarily advertising, marketing, financial services, and technology with particularly strong coverage of overlap topics like ecommerce, digital marketing, digital payments, mobile banking, etc.
Passport
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Aggregates industry reports, economic information, and consumer information by region and country with global coverage.
Bizminer
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Choose from two main categories. Industry Financial Analysis provides financial ratios and data for industry segments with sales class filters. Industry Market Profile offers demographics, competitors, market volume, and more for the entire US, states, counties, zip codes, cities, and customizable market radius.
IBISWorld Industry Reports
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Data-driven reports on over 12,000 industries. Each report is approximately 30-40 pages in length.
Frost and Sullivan
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Specializes in market research reports, with a wide range of categories like aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, consumer products, healthcare, energy and power systems, and measurement and instrumentation.
MarketResearch.com Academic
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Specializes in market research reports, with a wide range of categories like food and beverage, technology and media, heavy industry, life science, consumer goods, and service industries.
Plunkett Research
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Aggregates industry reports, company profiles, and job-seeker resources.

Consumer Expenditure Survey
The survey provides information on how much consumers spend on a variety of product categories, based on age, occupation, income, and other demographics.

MRI-Simmons Catalyst
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Demographic, lifestyle, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences reported by a sample of over 25,000 US consumers.
SimplyAnalytics
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Web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization of demographic variables, psychographic variables, and business locations. Map any area down to the US census block level. Add map data data variables and create custom reports. Includes MRI-SimmonsLOCAL and EASI customer data.
Reference Solutions
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Basic directory data including 91 million US businesses, 379 million historical US businesses, 267 million individual US consumers, plus similar information from Canada. Uses include list building, for example, all coffee shops in Indianapolis or all semiconductor machinery manufacturers in California and Indiana.

Mergent Online
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Company financial statements, ratios, and other quantitative data. Other information includes but is not limited to SEC filings, analyst reports, executive/board biographies and compensation details, and historical daily stock pricing back to 1925.
Reference Solutions
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Basic directory data including 91 million US businesses, 379 million historical US businesses, 267 million individual US consumers, plus similar information from Canada. Uses include list building, for example, all coffee shops in Indianapolis or all semiconductor machinery manufacturers in California and Indiana.
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From the dominant big green books of the Thomas Register to today, when the Thomas Network at Thomasnet.com is the go-to resource for product sourcing and supplier selection, our singular focus has been on helping to fuel the success of industry.
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Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis -- including US Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
D&B Hoovers
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Aggregates company profiles, business news, and industry reports.
PrivCo
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A premier source for business and financial data on over 300,000 major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.
Note: This resource requires you to create a user account.

Bizminer
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Choose from two main categories. Industry Financial Analysis provides financial ratios and data for industry segments with sales class filters. Industry Market Profile offers demographics, competitors, market volume, and more for the entire US, states, counties, zip codes, cities, and customizable market radius.
Key Business Ratios (D&B)
Examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&B's database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios. Choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.

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