National Links

Periodicals

Magazines

• Inc. Magazine Online.   "Inc. and Inc. Technology are the premiere U.S. publications for entrepreneurship. Providing hands-on advice, case studies, and big-picture overviews on the state of small business in the U.S., the magazines have a print circulation of 660,000."

Newspapers

• New York Times.  The definitive source for national and international news with excellent business coverage.
• The Wall Street Journal.  The Wall Street Journal needs little introduction.  Their online offerings are large and valuable to anyone doing business.
• The Washington Post.  For a different take on the news from the nation's capital the Washington Post is unexcelled.

Small Business Resources

"How to" information for small business owners

• Business Owner's Toolkit.  "Total know-how for small business."

Competitive intelligence resources

• Hoover's Online.  "Hoover's Online: The Business Network was built to serve the needs of people behind desks. Everything you'll find here was selected by our editors with the businessperson in mind. Every feature, every link, every tool represents the best the Web has to offer the busy professional."
• KnowX.com.  "KnowX.com is committed to providing the most accurate and complete public records coverage possible. The information that we provide is compiled from official records collection sources and updated regularly. Non-public information is not available on KnowX.com. We strive to make public record information accessible to all Web users, from the professional researcher to the novice user."
• Thomas Register.  "Thomas Register on the Internet is free. There are no charges for accessing any of our information."

U.S. Government links of interest to small business owners

• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
• BusinessLaw.gov.  "BusinessLaw.gov is an online resource guide designed to provide legal and regulatory information to America's small businesses. Because laws and regulations affect every aspect of business strategy, topics covered on the site range from the most basic and crucial, such as choosing a business structure or hiring a lawyer, to highly specialized issues such as e-commerce and exporting.
  
  The site also acts as a gateway to federal, state and local information that affects small businesses. From the site, Business owners may quickly check zoning codes for their local area, or file a complaint with the Office of the National Ombudsman."
• Online Women's Business Center.  "Office of Women's Business Ownership... promotes the growth of women-owned businesses through programs that address business training and technical assistance, and provide access to credit and capital, federal contracts, and international trade opportunities."
• Buffalo SBA District Office    The Buffalo District Office's operating area includes the 14 Westernmost counties of New York State. The District Office, located in the state's second most populous city of Buffalo, has a full service Branch in the state's third most populous city of Rochester. The two offices are well located so as to provide maximum assistance to the industrial cities in which located plus surrounding suburban communities and the rural counties of the District. The Buffalo headquarters area includes the industrial centers of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Jamestown, North Tonawanda, Lockport, Olean, and Batavia as well as the eight (8) Westernmost counties comprising the Niagara Frontier and the western part of the Southern Tier. The Rochester Branch serves the Rochester industrial area plus six (6) adjacent counties comprising the Genesee Valley - Finger Lakes Region.
• FirstGov.  "Your first click to the U.S. Government."

• Internal Revenue Service. 
• International Trade Administration. 
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
• U.S. Census Bureau.  "To be the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States."
• EconData.Net.  "EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web. EconData.Net is sponsored by the Economic Development Administration as a service to regional data users, and is jointly operated by Impresa, Inc. and Andrew Reamer & Associates, independent economic development consulting firms."
• U.S. Department of Commerce.  "The Department of Commerce promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable development and improved living standards for all Americans by working in partnership with business, universities, communities and workers to:
• Build for the future and promote U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace by strengthening and safeguarding the nation's economic infrastructure.
• Keep America competitive with cutting-edge science and technology and an unrivaled information base.
• Provide effective management and stewardship of the nation's resources and assets to ensure sustainable economic opportunities."
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  "For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution). Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans."
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  "The primary mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets."
• The U.S. Commercial Service -- Your Connection to Global Business.  "The U.S. Commercial Service offers valuable assistance to help your business export goods and services to markets worldwide. From this site you can access a global listing of trade events, international market research, and practical tools to help with every step of the export process. Let the U.S. Commercial Service help your business prosper in today's global economy."