Company Profiles for Students Business Information
In a Google Search use the following search terms: the name of the corporation and the word corporate (Sony corporate)
Use these resources to locate information on corporations
Yahoo Finance - brings you company profiles from Capital IQ, who provides users with information on over 9,000 public companies, including contact information, business summaries, officer and employee information, sector and industry classifications, business and earnings announcement summaries, and financial statistics and ratios. Yahoo adds stock charts based on historical data from Commodity Systems, Inc. (CSI), and links to other resources.
Portfolio - Company information, news, and financial data on more than 500,000 public and private companies. For information on executives click on Executive Profiles.
NASDAQ - stock quotes and company information
Hoovers - provides a financial overview of the company
Biz Journal - over 880, 000 company profiles
Precision R - use this site for annual reports
E Books
Forming Your Own Business
The Business Plan
Mission Statement Analysis
Operation Financing Franchises
Labor Laws
The Business Plan
BPlans - new site - this is an
excellent site contains just what you're looking for sample business plans,
marketing plans, and advertising plans for you to learn from and apply to your
business
Fran Net - lists franchise
businesses
American
Express Small Business Exchange - this site has interactive tools dealing
with business plans, fraud protection, hiring policies and procedures; go to
access information
Startup Journal - the Wall Street
Journal's Center for Entrepreneurs; tools for starting a business including a
business plan, franchising and starting a business.
Franchise
Zone - use this site from Entrepreneur magazine to locate franchises from
their annual franchise 500
International
Franchise Association - choose franchise by subject.
BPlans - this site offers thousands of
business plans
SBA - offers a complete business plan
from the Small Business Association
SBA Online Courses - online modules
including The Business Plan, How to Raise
Capital for a Small Business and How to Start a Business
Entrepreneur Magazine - find
information on franchising and starting your own business
Mission Statement
BPlans - helpful
hints; scroll down for links to sample mission statements
Center for Business Planning
- check out these mission statement from actual corporations
Analysis of Business Situation
Small Business Association - this
site gives you a complete plan for starting your own business
U.S. Census Bureau - You can locate census data for a specific area by click
on search on the Census Bureau's Homepage and then clicking on place. You will
have to key in the place or zip code.
New Jersey State Government - information on counties and cities
Jersey Economic Development Authority - information on financing a business
New Jersey Business Sources -
This is an excellent site for statistical information. Be sure
to scroll down to Demographic and Statistical Information
State of New Jersey - find information on
counties and communities and businesses in the garden state
NJ Counties and Municipalities
- search for information about local government.
Gloucester County - use this to look up information on the municipalities in
Gloucester County
Yahoo Travel - scroll down for links to
countries
USA DATA - use this site for demographic
reports, corporate reports and targeted market research
City Search - This site provides an
overview of cities in the United States
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Operation of the Business
SBA - information on starting
and financing your own business
Hoover's - provides
information on companies and their initial IPO's
Thomas Register - can search for
American manufacturers
SEC - provides information on companies,
investor's information and small businesses
Employee Theft - this is a chapter
summary of a book on this topic
Copyright Web - this site provides
information on copyright laws
United States Copyright Office -
everything you know about copyright
United Postal Service - has a section called Small Business Tools
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Financing
Quicken - this site
provides help for anyone starting a business
Pacifica - accounting software
MoneyHunter - the site to help you
raise money for your business
StartUp - this site boasts that it has
helped over 20,000 people start their own business; includes templates that you
can use to start your own business
Business Finance - links to 78,000
sources of finances
Venture Associates - Information on
Initial Public Offerings, IPOs, Internet Direct Public Offerings, DPOs, Reverse
Mergers, Venture Capital, Business Plans and Planning, Small Business Financing
The Idea Cafe - this is an excellent site
for small business online help
U.S.
Franchises - a database of over 1,000 franchises
The
Franchise Doctor - profiles of some of America's best franchise
opportunities
Franchise
Zone - use this site from Entrepreneur magazine to locate franchises
from their annual franchise 500
Franchise
Search - information on 1500 franchises including addresses and costs
Franchise
Opportunities Superstore - state by state directory
Entrepreneur
Magazine - Franchise Opportunities - this site is excellent; provides
addresses, start-up costs and advice on thousands of franchises
The Franchise Handbook - information
on various types of franchises and many articles on franchising.
Franchise
Advice
Consumer
Guide to Buying a Franchise - from the Federal Trade Commission
Entrepreneurship
Test - this site provides a test to evaluate your skills
as a business owner; it also includes information on everything about
starting a company including factors of success and failure, raising
capital, business plans, financing a company. This is a one-stop site for
information on entrepreneurship
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