Business & Management: Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur Links
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AutopsyA database of failed startups, searchable by name, location, industry and year. Autopsy gives a variety of information on each startup, including company duration, investment and funding details, founders/team, and reason for failure. All startup entries have an accompanying failure story written by the founder(s).
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Census Business Builder: Small Business EditionBuilt for small business owners who need key data for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. It presents data for a single type of business at a time.
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CrunchbaseCrunchbase is the leading platform for professionals to discover innovative companies, connect with the people behind them, and pursue new opportunities.
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OwlerOwler crowdsources competitive insights by providing news alerts, company profiles, and polls and allows members to follow, track, and research companies in real time.
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Startup GraveyardSimilar to Autopsy but not always as in depth, Startup Graveyard provides names, length, funding details and reason for failure of companies worldwide.
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ThomasNetAs of 2006, Thomas Register is online at ThomasNet.com. Search suppliers by company, product, or available CAD drawing. Great source of information on industrial distributors and manufacturers and related services. This website is free to register, search and export results.
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Tax Guide for Small BusinessFor use in preparing 2019 Returns.
Business Librarian
Related Guides
Data on Entrepreneurs
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Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE)From the U.S. Census Bureau
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WorldBank's Doing Business EntrepreneurshipAnnual data was collected directly from 155 company registrars on the number of newly registered firms. Data was also collected on female entrepreneurship over the past five years in order to measure gender gaps between men and women who start or operate a company.
Funding Resources
Recommended Reading
The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.
Encyclopedia of small business
"Provides entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Features revised and expanded coverage to reflect the most current small business topics."
The Startup Owner's Manual
The Startup Owner's Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices that have swept the startup world. It incorporates the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses, provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile products versus physical products, offers a wealth of detailed instruction on how to get, keep, and grow customers recognizing the different techniques for web and physical channels and teaches a "new math" for startups: "metrics that matter for fueling growth."
Burn the Business Plan
Filled with stories of successful entrepreneurs who drew on real-life experience rather than academic coursework, Burn the Business Plan is the guide to starting and running a business that will actually work for the rest of us.
Loonshots
Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall shows why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice.
The B Corp Handbook, Second Edition
While this book is framed around the B Corp movement, any company, regardless of size, industry, or location, can use the tools contained here to learn how to build a better business. As the authors vividly demonstrate, using business as a force for good can help you attract and retain the best talent, distinguish your company in a crowded market, and increase trust in your brand.
Start-Up
This guide for aspiring entrepreneurs provides expert advice on every aspect of launching a new business. It is designed to be of particular value for academics wishing to exploit the commercial value of a new technology or business solution. Inspiring and readable, it shows how to evaluate the strength of a business idea, how to protect inventions, reviews legal steps and responsibilities, shows how to position products in the market, how to create a business plan and raise initial capital.