US
Small Business Administration
A comprehensive
guide to the SBA's programs and services, Profile. This site is designed
to help you help your customers and constituencies — small business
owners and potential entrepreneurs.
Portal
for big Kahunas
A Portal designed a a busy executive
for busy Executives. A must for those at the helm of all organizations.
Factmerchant
Factmerchant
Company Profiles provide contact details and links to related company
reports, market research and real-time news. Browsing allows the user
to target companies by sector or country, and profile news by market,
sector, news category and timeframe. FactMerchant categorizes and filters
business and financial information to reduce information overload. This
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Ways to Finance Your Business Venture
The money
is out there and this site will show you how to get it! Venture Planning
Associates provides venture capital consulting services to startups
and high growth ventures. Follow their links to find FREE information
about conventional and alternative funding, deal structure, and angel
investors.
Company
Information Sleuth
Company
Sleuth is the premier provider of free, legal, inside information on
publicly traded companies for active investors and savvy business professionals.
Company Sleuth's patent-pending technology scours the Internet for hard-to-find
information and delivers customized daily updates to users via e-mail
and their palm pilots.
Business
Culture, Customs and Etiquette
This site
provides an excellent guide to international business etiquette and
culture in U.S top trading partner nations.The guide Covers numerous
aspects of business protocol, including gift-giving, negotiating tactics,
appointments, business entertaining, cross-cultural communication and
more. It is really fascinating to read, especially if you already have
travelled to these top trading partner countries.
International
Trade/Import-Export Portal
Here is
a valuable link to FITA,The Federation of International Trade Associations.
FITA was founded in 1984 to fosters international trade by strengthening
the role of local, regional, and national associations throughout the
United States, Mexico and Canada that have an international mission.
Here you will find fresh trade leads, some free, some fee-based. You
will also find links to over 3000 international trade related Web sites.
The
Motley Fool
Motley's
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A
Crash Course in Learning Basic Music Business and Publishing Terms
If you
are a music aficionado, you might be interested in increasing you music
business knowledge.
Licensing
World
LicensingWorld.com
is a privately held US based company. Its mission is to provide a barrier-free,
global platform for licensing companies, big and small, to participate
and showcase their properties, products and services effectively to
the industry worldwide, in a more flexible and cost-effective way than
traditional trade media.This site is totally "open-access";
Anyone with a connection to the Internet can use their services, browse
the database and read up on developments and news from within the licensing
industry.
