Small Business Online Resources

Online Resources for SMEs
Website, Webpages, Blogs and Knols for supporting Small Businessmen, CEOs and Executives
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November 2011

How to use social media to promote your small business
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kymmcnicholas/2011/09/19/how-to-use-social-media-to-promote-your-small-business/

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Interesting Articles

March 2010

Fortune Small Business 100 List and Company Snapshots
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2009/snapshots/1.html

Budgeting For Small Business
http://www.smallbusinessfinancetips.com/budget-planning.html

Built to Sell - Book Review
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/03/how-built-to-sell-could-help-you-become-a-millionaire.html

Business Plans by Entrepreneurs - Wharton Professor's Suggestions
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2443

Cloud Computing for Small Business
http://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/ecommercesolutions/article205484.html

Small Business Netbook Guide
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/testdrive/article.php/3870611/A-Small-Business-Guide-to-Buying-a-Netbook.htm

Financing in Tough Times
http://www.entrepreneur.com/ask/answer18933.html

Ten Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget
http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/marketingideas/article205412.html

Market Research Low Cost Way
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb2008019_352779.htm

Relationship Marketing
http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/customersforlife.html

33 Rules to Boost Productivity
http://us.smetoolkit.org/us/en/content/en/2699/33-Rules-to-Boost-Your-Productivity

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Small Business Sites

Business Week Small Business
http://www.businessweek.com/small-business/  (gs5)

Small Business Computing
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/  (gs6)

Small Business Finance Tips (gs7)
http://www.smallbusinessfinancetips.com/

SME Toolkit  (Supported by IFC and IBM) (gs8)
http://us.smetoolkit.org/us/en

Small Business Trends
http://smallbiztrends.com/ (gs9)

Small Business Bible (gs10)
http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/

http://www.smallbusiness.com/wiki/Main_Page
wiki for small business (20,348 entries on 16.3.2010) (gs2)

Handbook of Management Knowledge Revision

By Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Knol Sub-Directory - Micro, Small and Medium Businesses - MSMBs, SMBs, SMEs

 
Knol search link for small business - Small business,

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Magazines and News Papers - Small Business Sections

 

Business Week Small Business
http://www.businessweek.com/small-business/  (gs5)

 
CNN Money Small Business
http://money.cnn.com/smallbusiness/

Forbes Entrepreneurs
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/

Fortune Small Business
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2009/12/01/toc.html

FT.Com

http://www.ft.com/management/entrepreneurship

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Services for Small Business

Company.com is the trusted online community that helps small and mid-sized businesses save money, make money, and grow. Company.com makes it easy to procure services from trusted service providers.
http://www.company.com/business/Atlanta/GA/Company-Com-Corp/iggjeaaeef


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For Propsective Entreprenurs

http://www.entrepreneur.com/ (gs1)

http://www.zeromillion.com/

 

Fosering Entrepreneurship Worldwide - Kauffman Foundation

http://www.entrepreneurship.org/

Knol Sub-Directory - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Videos
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IVY League Business Schools

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge - Faculty Papers on Entrepreneurship
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/entrepreneurship.html

INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/areas/entrepreneurship/index.cfm


Standford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/

Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
http://wep.wharton.upenn.edu/
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Entrepreneurship Videos

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Country Specific Sites

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India

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http://www.yourstory.in/ (gs3)

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National Entrepreneurship Network, India
http://www.nenonline.org/

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India Institutes

EDI, Ahmedabad
http://www.ediindia.org/

 

 

Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE)
http://iie.nic.in/

IIT BOMBAY Entrepreneurship Cell

http://www.iitbecell.org/

NIESBUD (gs4)
http://niesbud.nic.in/


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Finance

 

ah! Ventures

Post Seed Pre VC Finance
http://www.ahventures.in/

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Magazines

 

SME World

http://www.smeworld.org/index.php

 

Books and Reports

 

BusinessWorld SME Whitebook 2009-10

http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2009_08_01_The_SME_Whitebook_20092010.html

 

Technological capabilities of SMEs in Maharashtra

http://www.dsir.gov.in/reports/mitcon/chap1.pdf 

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U.S.A.

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Services for Small Businesses

Company.com is the trusted online community that helps small and mid-sized businesses save money, make money, and grow. Company.com makes it easy to procure services from trusted service providers.
http://www.company.com/business/Atlanta/GA/Company-Com-Corp/iggjeaaeef



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http://www.entrepreneurship.gov/
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Institutes

MIT Entrepreneurship Center
http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/

 

 

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

http://www.nfte.com/
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