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Subject: Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Bplans

May 1, 2017

Contains about 500 sample business plans organized by broad categories. You can also search for plans by keywords. There is also information and advice on writing your business plan, starting, funding, and growing your business.

Open Access

http://www.bplans.com

Council for Entrepreneurial Development

May 1, 2017

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina.

CED is a community of people inspired by entrepreneurship, and includes a wide range of members including startup companies, more mature growth-stage firms, investors, service partners, academics, and individuals.
CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, forums, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance.
CED has helped entrepreneurs in a myriad of industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, life sciences, and service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses.

(source Organization Web site)

 

Open Access

http://www.cednc.org/

Doing Business

May 1, 2017

Doing Business is an annual report from the World Bank that provides rankings, evaluations, and measures of business regulations and laws and their enforcement for small and medium sized domestic business across more than 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. Reports are typically available from 2004 to 2020.

“Statement of World Bank Group on Discontinuing Doing Business Report

After data irregularities on Doing Business 2018 and 2020 were reported internally in June 2020, World Bank management paused the next Doing Business report and initiated a series of reviews and audits of the report and its methodology. Read the full statement released by the World Bank Group on the Doing Business report.”

Read Statement

Open Access

https://www.doingbusiness.org/

Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina

May 1, 2017

The EDPNC is focused on recruiting new businesses to North Carolina and supporting existing businesses in NorthCarolina through a variety of programs. These programs include: site identification and selection for expansion and/or relocation, incentive programs, export assistance, start-up assistance and more.

Open Access

https://edpnc.com/

Entrepreneurial Studies Source

May 1, 2017

Contains indexing and full-text of articles and other content from more than 125 magazines and academic journals and from more than 135 books on entrepreneurial topics, Also includes Datamonitor case studies, and 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Seminar Series and Vator.TV. Covers topics including:

  • Business Planning
  • Communications
  • Innovations
  • Risk Taking
  • Raising Capital
  • Marketing
  • Product Development
  • Management
  • Organizational Behavior

UNC-CH users only

https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23609081

Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network

May 1, 2017

The Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN) is one of a number of specialized research networks within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). It features abstracts and full-text papers from research covering the intersection of entrepreneurship with other subject areas such as economics, finance, law and the social sciences. ( Source Davis Library)

UNC-CH users only

https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go.php?c=23608928

Entrepreneurship.org

May 1, 2017

Created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurship.org was formed as a free, online international resource designed to help build entrepreneurial economies.
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. (Source: Entrepreneurship.org web stie)

Open Access

https://www.entrepreneurship.org/

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

May 1, 2017

Articles, reports, and statistics on the state of entrepreneurship in the United States.

This site is sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Open Access

https://www.kauffman.org/

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

May 1, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that produes an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries. The data collected is ‘harmonized’ by a central team of experts, guaranteeing its quality and facilitating cross-national comparisons.

The program has three main objectives:

  • Measure differences in the level of entrepreneurial activity between countries
  • Uncover factors leading to appropriate levels of entrepreneurship
  • Suggest policies that may enhance the national level of entrepreneurial activity.
GEM endevors to make the data to as wide an audience as possible.  (source: organizations website)

Open Access

http://www.gemconsortium.org/

NC.gov

April 28, 2017

Links to all kinds of information about doing business in or with the state of North Carolina. Including: applications, permits, licenses, laws, taxes, and all manner of laws, rules, and regulations.

Open Access

https://www.nc.gov/services/business

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