Would you like to target businesses within a specific radius around your business location? How about all residents on a particular street? Are you interested in finding B2B partners in your city, county or zip code? Instead of paying for an expensive direct mail marketing list, use a library database! Reference USA can easily help you achieve this marketing goal. Reference USA is available for . . . more »

Jason Zweig is one of my favorite writers on finance. As with most of his writings, “The Little Book of Safe Money” is oriented toward the individual investor, but embraces a philosophy that can be applied toward business investments. This book’s strength is its succinct explanation of how investment schemes can be framed to hide actual risk and returns from investors, while also explaining how . . . more »

This is my favorite book for entrepreneurs. It outlines all of the legal and financial questions that you should be asking yourself at the beginning. Before you even start to write a business plan, check out this fairly short book and read it from beginning to end. If you still want to start a business after that, you'll have a list of phone calls to . . . more »

Thinking about starting a small business? If you are, one of the most valuable resources for California startups is Calgold. Calgold is a CA state site that helps small business owners find all of the permits necessary to start a business. It lists city, county, state and federal agencies that regulate your particular industry, along with contact information and web links for each agency. Let's . . . more »