This directory combines resources (both from the Internet and paper-literature) related to small-business operations and entrepreneurship (under construction).

Supporting Pages:

• Regional Development Organizations, incl. Chambers of Commerce
• HighTech & Innovation
• (Business) Networks
• Electronic Retailing & Distribution Systems
• Business Plans (Geographic Components)

Conferences:

• Globalization & Emerging Economies: 1999 International Conference [http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/] Barcelona, Spain, July 12-14, 1999

Internet Sites:

• High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker: Series ARCHIVES
• Northwest Entrepreneurs are changing your world! Check out previously broadcast events from this series.
  • HomeGrocer.com - Why Go Out? Terry Drayton (HomeGrocer.com), 10/21/99
  • Anatomy of a Start-Up; Robert Overell (Frazier & Company), Craig Sherman (Venture Law Group), Steven Bain (Skeletech), 11/18/99
  • The Venture Capitalist's View; Steve Arnold (Polaris Venture Partners), and Dan Rosen (Microsoft) 2/18/99

• Internet stops: Lots of online sources on running small business; Seattle Times, Sunday, August 1, 1999 by Jeff Houck, Tribune Media Services Running a small business can make you feel like you're walking 50 dogs at once, with so many things to juggle and prepare for. These sites offer unique tools for keeping your business on track.
  • Home-business research.com
  • Advanced small-business information
  • E-commerce times
  • U.S. small-business administration hotlist
  • IC² Institute, Austin ["Innocation - Creativity - Capital"] IC2 rigorously assesses the impact of two key societal drivers: technology and ideology. It brings new analytical methods to bear on problems affecting nations, individual states, regions, local communities, the academic community, and business firms. It evaluates issues relating to the viability of emerging industries, growth and survivability of various enterprises, and the role and purpose of private and public institutions.
  • American success institute
  • National small-business development center
  • Business owner's toolkit
  • Biz pro web
• School of Business Administration
  • The Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovati$ (PEI) Its mission is to "advance entrpreneurial education - the process of discovery, invention, development, and commercialization that leads to a new venture, product, or service, and creates value for a start-up, early-stage, or established firm - throughout the University of Washington. PEI provides state-of-the-art knowledge and curriculum, action learning experiences, and participation in the Northwest's entrepreneurial network."
    • Developing Your Network of Corporate Contacts
    • A Dynamic Region and a Leading University
• U.S. Business Advisor [The one-stop electronic link to government for business] The U.S. Business Advisor exists to provide business with one-stop access to federal government information, services, and transactions. Our goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive.
• Small Business Investment Companies Program (SBA) "Congress created the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program in 1958 to fill the gap between the availability of venture capital and the needs of small businesses in start-up and growth situations. SBICs, licensed and regulated by the SBA, are privately owned and managed investment firms that use their own capital, plus funds borrowed at favorable rates with an SBA guarantee, to make venture capital investments in small businesses."
• Infoseek Directory: Small Business
• The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is the nation's largest advocacy organization representing small and independent businesses. With an audited membership of 600,000 business owners, NFIB is a melting pot of commercial enterprise; high-tech manufacturers and family farmers, neighborhood retailers and service companies.

Starting your own Business -- Including your own Internet Business:

• Net Gain: Starting your Own Internet Business

  is designed to help you understand the opportunities that exist on-line for your business and determine where you should start to develop an effective Internet operation.

  • Internet Retailing Analytical Tool
• Small Business Resource Center. CoreStates is committed to helping small businesses by creating lasting relationships and understanding the intricacies of businesses like yours so that we can respond to your changing needs.
• How to Finance and Start your Own Small BusinessKent Campbell's SBA Financing Guide to the Small Business Administration. (GeoCities) Starting and operating a small business. Welcome to the Small Business Financing page. Here, you will find a wealth of information to explore, whether you are currently in business, or planning to go into business.
  • In order to be successful in a small business, the first thing you must have is a good business plan.
  • EntrepreneurMag.Com ["THE ONLINE SMALL BUSINESS AUTHORITY"]
  • Other Small-Business Resources (!)
  • The Company Corporation [...is a service company and does not offer legal or financial advice.] [http://www.corporate.com/index.html]
  • Small Business Resources (SOHO So Far)
  • Starting your own Business (Resources)
  • Cashflow City (Small-Business Resources)
  • The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created by Congress in 1953 to help America's entrepreneurs form successful small enterprises. Today, SBA's program offices in every state offer financing, training and advocacy for small firms. These programs are delivered by SBA offices in every state, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
    In addition, the SBA works with thousands of lending, educational and training institutions nationwide.
    • Newsletter, SBA "Advocate" The Small Business Advocate is a monthly or bi-monthly newsletter that details economic developments and regulatory trends related to small business as well as the latest initiatives of the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.
  • Small Business Program at the Treasury Department

• The U.S. Export Assistance Center (USEAC) in Seattle consolidates the export promotion and finance services of the Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC), the Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW) (Export-Import Bank's City/State Market Cooperator) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

• Small Business Startups in Washington State

  Established in 1987, the Business Assistance Center is designed to offer easy access to the many business assistance programs available to Washington state businesses. Its mission is to encourage, support and coordinate the delivery of state services and regulations in the most efficient and effective manner.

• Minority and Women's Business Enterprises, Washington State Government

• The Carolina Entrepreneurship Club, ... founded in 2001, provides all students the opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial skills, network with experienced professionals, and interact with fellow students.

• http://www.yourhomebiz.com/ [Home-Business Support Site]

• Business@Home: Making a Life while making a Living

• EPA's Small-Business Site

• Electronic Retailing (and other Internet related businesses)

• Entreworld [http://www.entreworld.org][Find what you need... without wasting time looking for it. We search every corner of the Web and deliver the best resources, so you can devote your attention to your business.]

• Black Enterprise

• Business Week, 11/27/95 -- Cover Story "Reinventing the Store" (Retail Developments)

• Small Business Advice from the U.K. (commercial)

• SAWYER SEMINAR: ENTREPRENEURS, ENTREPRENEURIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES "Beginning in the 1980s and continuing in the 1990s, an historically unprecedented transition got underway in communist and post-communist countries of Asia, Eastern Europe, and the (former) Soviet Union. The command-administrative forms of economic organization originating in the Stalinist era were gradually modified by reforms aimed at introducing economic institutions and practices based on markets and private ownership. The first developments in this direction took place in the People's Republic of China and in Eastern Europe, especially Hungary and Czechoslovakia. By 1988, similar reforms were set in motion in the Soviet Union."

Small Business Data:

• SBA Data (Advocacy)

• The Best 100 Sources of Marketing Information, American Demographics, January 1995.

Clippings:

• Don't ignore the vitals when building dot-com Not as risky as it seems; here's what's critical at start-up time Seattle PI, Friday, July 12, 2002 By PAUL TULENKO; SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE OK, so you want to start a high-tech dot-com business. No, it's not as risky as it seems, even with the horror stories out there, but there are critical items that need extra attention at the start-up of your business. Ignoring these will automatically result in failure. No slack, just failure.

• Production Plants in Mobile Containers [http://www.scinet-corp.com/associates/ist.htm] [2002] Mini-plants in mobile containers, made especially to be supplied to developing countries. The mini-plant system is designed in such a way that all the production machinery is fixed on the platform of the container, with all wiring, piping, and installation parts; that is to say, they are fully equipped.

• Apple co-founder Wozniak is planning a new GPS start-up Seattle PI, Thursday, January 24, 2002 By JOHN MARKOFF THE NEW YORK TIMES Coming out of an early retirement more than a decade ago, Stephen Wozniak, one of Silicon Valley's most legendary computer designers, has caught start-up fever and is forming a new company to develop consumer products that are based on wireless and global-positioning-satellite technologies.

• Small Business Insights Byte Of Success Building the e-business store one click at a time Puget Sound Business Journal, From the November 24, 2000 print edition, By Chaim Yudkowsky

  This holiday season will make or break a growing number of e-businesses. Many of these businesses, defined by their virtual characteristics in interacting with customers over the Web, will participate in the rush toward the expected (as predicted by researcher IDC) 69.9 percent growth rate of online retailing in North America alone.

• Anatomy of a start-up: The elusive art of the deal Seattle Times, September 10, 2000, by Monica Soto

  Carl Lawson, the chief executive and founder of ArtPassion.com, had five minutes to substantiate why this assembly of Northwest Venture Group investors should part with their money, 300 seconds to gain their trust....

Literature:

Bibliography [Bryant College]

Acs, Zoltan, J., ed., Are Small Firms Important? : Their Role and Impact Kluwer Academic Pub., 1999 ISBN: 0792384156

Acs, Zoltan and Charlie Karlson, eds., Entrepreneursjip, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy. Cambridge Univ. Press 1998.

Adams, Bob, Small Business Star-up: Your Comprehensive Guide to Starting and managing a Business. Adams Media Co. 1996.

Barkham, Richard, et al., The Determinants of Small Firm Growth: An Inter-Regional Study in the UK 1986-90. [HD62.7.D48.1996] [Appendix: NIERC Small Business Questionnaire

Campbell, John Creighton. Entrepreneurship in a "Mature Industry" {Car Industry}. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies. 1986 [HD9710.A2.E58]

Curran, J. and Blackburn, R. (1994) Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy? (Paul Chapman, London).

Curran, J. and Storey, D. (eds) (1993) Small Firms in Urban and Rural Locations, (Routledge, London).

Yannis Georgellis, Howard J. Wall:
What makes a region entrepreneurial? Evidence from Britain
Ann Reg Sci 34 (2000) 3, 385-403
Article in PDF format (144 KB)

Kamoroff, Bernard B., Small-Time Operator: How to Start your Own Small Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes and Stay out of Trouble. [For all small businesses, self employed individuals, prfessionals, Home-based Businesses. Laytonville & Willits, 1997. [pp.16-19 : "Business Location"]

Keeble, David and Peter Wood, "Entrepreneurship and Flexibilty in Business Services: The Rise of Small Management Consultancy and Market Research Firms in the UK," in: Kevin Caley et al., Small Enterprise Development Policy and Practice in Motion. 1992.

Keeble, D. & Bryson, J., Small-frim creation and growth, regional development and the North-South divide in Britain. Environment & planning a MAY 01 1996 v 28 n 5 pp. 909ff.

Kirzner, Israel M., "Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach," Journal of Economic Literature, 35(1), March 1997, pp.60-85.

J.K. Lasser Institute, How to run a small business / 7th ed., New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994. xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. [Business Admin General Stacks HD62.7 .H68 1994]

Light, Ivan and Carolyn Rosenstein, Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America. Aldine de Gruyter 1995. {Pb $23.95}

Light, Ivan. IMMIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP : CULTURE, CAPITAL, AND ETHNIC NETWORKS / EDITED BY IVAN LIGHT, PARMINDER BHACHU. New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c1993. xiv, 381 p. : ill. [HD2341 .I46 1993]

Lyons, Donald. "Changing Business Opportunities: The Geography of Rapidly Growing Small U.S. Private Firms, 1982-1992," Professional Geographer 47(4), November 1995, pp.388-98.

Malecki, Edward J and M.E.Veldhoen, "Network Activities, Information and Competitiveness in Small Firms," Geografiska Annaler 75B(3), 1993, 131ff.

Manimala, Mathew J., Entrepreneurial Policies and Strategies: The Innovator's Choice. New Delho: Sage Publications, 1999. [OBS for Social Transformation] [HB615.M354.1999]

Merrett CD, Gruidl JJ, Small business ownership in Illinois: The effect of gender and location on entrepreneurial success, PROF GEOGR 52 (3): 425-436 AUG 2000.

O'Doherty, Dermot (Irish Science & Technlogy Agency - EOLAS - ), The Cooperation Phenomenon: Prospects for Small Firms and the Small Economies. Graham & Trotman, London, 1990. [HD2341.C66/ BusLib]

OECD, Networks of Enterprises and Local Development: Competing and Co-operating in Local Productive Systems. Paris 1996. [HD69.S8.N47.1996, Suz]

OECD, Best Practice Policies for Small- and Medium-Sized Industries, 1996 Edition. [92-97-01-1, 1-Apr-1997, 175 pages, ISBN 92-64-25414-5, $49.00, FF 250]

Ozcan, Gul Berna. Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate/Avebury, 1995. [Abstract in JEL, June 1996, p.894.

Paulson. Edward. (The Complete Idiot's Guide to) Starting Your Own Business. Alpha Books 1995. [Ch.17 (pp.235ff.) "Working at Home or Away?", pp.241ff. "Finding the Right Location for your 'Real Office'."

Rice, Mark P. and Jana B. Matthews. Growing New Ventures, Creating New Jobs: Principles and Practices of Successful Business Incubation. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood/Quorum, 1995. [Abstract in JEL June 1996, p.894]

Sternberg, Rolf. Entrepreneurship in Deutschland. Das Gruendungsgeschehen im internationalen Vergleich. Laenderbericht Deutschland 1999 zum Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Berlin: edition sigma. 2000.

Thompson, Chris, The Geography of Venture Capital, Progress in Human Geography, 13(1), 1989, pp.62-98.

Geography of Retailing and Marketing (Bibliography)

Selected Business Publications

• Money Guide: How to Start and Run Your Business. Summer 1991.
• Small Business Survival: How to keep your small Business competitive...; Supplement to the Puget Sound Business Journal. no date (1990?).

Wallace, George. Using Microenterprise Programs in the Rural United States Rural America 15(1), Feb. 2000.

Wall Street Journal: Small Business News

Small Business Administration (SBA)
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Geographic Components of a Business Plan