Careers in Small Business
December 01, 2007
by Staff,
Job Information Center, Mid-Manhattan Library
Careers in Small Business
BOOKS
Directories
Bond, Robert E. Bond’s Franchise Guide. Oakland, CA: Source Book Publications, 2006. (381.1302 B)
Stephenson, James and Rich Mintzer. Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Start-Up Directory.
2nd ed. Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press, 2007. (658.1141 E)
Career Development – General Resources
Caplan, Suzanne. Streetwise Finance & Accounting for Entrepreneurs: Set Budgets, Manage Costs, Keep Your Business Profitable. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2006.
(658.15 C)
The Editors of Socrates. Building a Successful Business Plan: Advice from the Experts. Chicago, IL: Socrates Media, 2006. (658.4012 B)
Gegax, Tom and Phil Bolsta. The Big Book of Small Business: You Don’t Have to Run Your Business By the Seat of Your Pants. New York: Collins, 2007. (658.022 G)
Lesonsky, Rieva. Start Your Own Business. 4th ed. Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press, 2007. (658.041 S)
Pakroo, Peri. The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide. 4th ed.
Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2006. (346.7306 L)
Steingold, Fred S. Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business. 9th ed.
Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2006. (346.7306 L)
Career Development – Specific Categories
Egerton-Thomas, Christopher. How to Open and Run a Successful Restaurant. 3rd ed.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. (647.9506 E)
Jeffrey, Yvonne and Sherri Linsenbach. The Everything Home-based Business Book: Start and Run Your Own Money-making Venture. 2nd ed. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2006. (658.0412 J)
Mohr, Angie. Start & Run a Bookkeeping Business. Bellingham, WA: Self-Counsel Press, 2006. (657.2 M)
Spencer, Christopher M. The eBay Entrepreneur: The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own eBay Trading Assistant Business. Chicago, IL: Kaplan Publishing, 2006.
(658.87 S)
Wong, Karina. My First Pot of Gold: An American Business Handbook for Chinese Immigrants. New York: Pachira Enterprises, 2006. (658.1108 W)
Woodward, Cheryl. Starting & Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazine. 5th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2006. (070.572 S)
WEBSITES
Business.Gov – The Official Business Link to the U.S. Government
http://www.business.gov
Forming a Corporation in New York State
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/busfile.html
Internal Revenue Service
United States Department of the Treasury
Small Business and Self-Employed One-Stop Resource
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/index.html
SCORE NYC – Counselors to America’s Small Businesses
http://www.scorenyc.org/
U.S. Small Business Administration
Your Small Business Resource
http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html
PERIODICALS
CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS – Weekly; New York State economic conditions; provides executives with a source for solid, local business news.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
The library also has periodical index databases that provide abstracts and some full text articles.
12/07 By: Emerenciana Bravo, Senior Librarian, Job Information Center