As a lawyer
representing new ventures and small businesses, people
sometimes ask me where can they find out how to start a
business, how to obtain financing, how to find good business
partners, how to structure a business, how to obtain
financing, how to protect intellectual property, how to
write a business plan, and, did I mention how to obtain
financing! I often suggest Amazon, brick-and-mortar
bookstores and the library. But this is the
information age, and the web has good resources, some of
which are listed below.
First, a whitepaper by the North
Carolina Department of Labor titled
Industrial Recruitment and
the Path of North Carolina's Economic Development to the
Year 2000 (8 MB Adobe Acrobat/PDF file).
From the Wall Street Journal, there
is
http://www.startupjournal.com/
The Kauffman Foundation is a top flight entrepreneurial
organization and the have several excellent resources on the
web
eVenturing - the entrepreneur's
trusted guide to high growth
http://www.eventuring.org
Fast Trac
http://www.fasttrac.org/
Kauffman Foundation
http://www.kauffman.org/
Entrepreneur Magazine
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
Inc. Magazine
http://www.inc.com/home/
Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/index.html
Business 2.0 (now on CNN)
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/
LocalTechWire
http://www.localtechwire.com/
Charlotte Business Journal (see latest news on left side) http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/
First Tuesday
http://www.firsttuesday.com/
NCSU Institute for Emerging Issues
http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/index.php
All
Business
http://www.allbusiness.com/
CEO
Express
http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
The Entrepreneur's Organization
http://www.eonetwork.org/
Ad-aware 2007
“Let’s face it, there’s only one thing you can clean with
dry paper.”
– from a
C|Net review of the Toto Washlet S300, a bolt on
bidet for the executive washroom. You will note
that this quote no longer appears on the C|Net site.
I'm sure someone got called on the carpet for permitting
this quote up in the first place.
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