Small Business/Entrepreneurship

These resources were selected for their authority, ease of use, and accessibility. If you need more assistance, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/business/refservices.html  or email the research librarians: business@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

Additional resources can be found in CLIO, the library catalog.

Contents:

• General Resources
• The Business Plan
• Market
• Financial Plan
• Sources of Financing
• Databases - Articles and Company Overviews
• Valuation
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry

General Resources

• Angel Investor’s Handbook: How to Profit from Early Stage Investing
  HG4963 B463 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
• Associations Unlimited
  Contains over 144,000 detailed entries for organizations all over the world including U.S. regional and national associations, and international associations.
  
  
• Business of Investment Banking
  HG4534 L528 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
• Business Strategies
  HF5356 B87 (Business Reference)
  Published by CCH, this source is a comprehensive guide emphasizing all aspects of business planning, taxation, human resources and accounting concerns.
  
  
• Economic Census
  Profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level.
  
  
• Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
  KF390.B84 B34 (Business Reserve)
  
  
• Deal Terms. Wilmerding, Alex.
  HG4751 .W55 2003g (Business Reserve)
  
  
• Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles (via Proquest)
  Find information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names.
  
  
• How to Set Up Your Own Small Business
  HD62.7 .F35 (Business Reference)
  
  
• Inc 500. - Annual ranking of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies
  HF 5001 .I534 (Business Reference)
  
  
• The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship
  HD62.5 .B94 (Business Reference)
  
  
• ReferenceUSA
  Directory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above.
  
  
• Small Business Sourcebook: The Entrepreneur's Resource
  HD2346 .U5 S65 (Business Reference)
  Comprehensive guide to sources of information on all aspects of small business. Covers over 350 topics related to starting and running a small business.
  
  
• Steps to Small Business Start-Up
  HD62.5 .P656 2000 (Business Reference)
  
  
• U.S. Small Business Administration
  
  
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Market

Demographics

• American FactFinder
  Easy to user interface to census data. Includes the decennial census, the American Community Survey and the Economics Census.
  
  
• Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics
  HA203. S66 (Business Reference)
  
  

• Choices III - Simmon's Study of Media and Markets (Library use only - ask at the circulation desk for help)
  The software allows you to build your own cross-tabulations in order to analyze media and markets.  Data are based on a survey of almost 25,000 consumers in the United States.

• Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies
  Virtual library of reports covering IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors. FAITS also links to technology and business news resources such as Nando Net, The New York Times, Financial Times, NewsBytes, and the BBC.
  
  
• Forrester Research (includes Jupiter Communications)
  Forrester's research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester reports include up-to-date industry statistics, as well as illustrative graphs and charts.
  
  
• Gartner
  In depth market research reports on information technology. Topic areas include: computing hardware, software infrastructure, IT services, communications, semiconductors and business objectives.
  
  
• Global Market Information Database (GMID)
  GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.Coverage: 1977 to present, forecasts to 2016.
  
  
• Lifestyle Market Analyst
  HF5415.33.U6 L54 (Business Reference)
  
  
• Local Market Audience Analyst [from SRDS]
  A consumer market research tool that delivers demographic, segmentation, and targeting data for media planners and consumer marketers.
  

Financial Plan

• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
  HF5681 .R25T68(Business Reference)
  Contains operating and financial information for corporations with and without net incomes as well as only for those companies in an industry that operated at a profit. Organized by the SIC Code.
  
  
• Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
  HD47.D82 (Business Reference)
  
  
• IRS Corporate Financial Ratios
  HF5681 .I77 (Business Reference)
  Compiled from IRS data from income statements and balance sheets for companies with and without net income. Organized by major and minor industry groups.
  
  
• RMA Annual Statement Studies
  HF5681 .B2R5 (Business Reference)
  Balance sheet and income statements as well as commonly used ratios for over 360 industries. Organized by the SIC Code as well as title of industry. Includes the most recent five years of data.

Sources of Financing

• Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory
  HG4961 .V36 (Directories Shelves) Also available on CD [ask at the circulation desk for help]
  Detailed profiles of over 1,500 firms in the U.S. and overseas. Indexed by: city, state, funding stage, industry preference, investment, funds under management, geographic investment preference, key contact names, and alphabetically. Also available electronically on one terminal in the Business library.
  
  
• Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources
  HG65 .P72 (Directories Shelves)
  This directory contains information on over 1,200 venture capital companies including some Canadian, European, and Asian-Pacific companies. Entries are arranged by state or country and list project preferences, type of financing, minimum investment, preferred investment, and contact person.
  
  
• Private Equity and Venture Capital [via Thomson ONE Banker]
  Once in the database click on the Private Equity tab. 
  
  

Databases

• Articles on companies and industries
  

• Business Source Complete
  Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. BSP also includes country reports from EIU and Global Insight as well as company reports from Datamonitor.
  
  
• Factiva
  Factiva is an excellent resource for finding company and industry information. Factiva contains a database of nearly 8,000 publications, including: academic and trade publications, industry newsletters, international and regional newspapers, business magazines, and business newswires.
  
  
• Proquest Direct
  An interdisciplinary database covering more than 2,000 professional, scholarly, trade and general interest periodicals, including full-text for over a thousand titles and indexing/abstracts for the others.
  
  

• Country overviews and data
  

• CEIC Data Manager
  Contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data and cover over 60 countries
  
  
• Economist Intelligence Unit
  Includes EIU publications, Country Commerce, Country Reports, Country Finance and Country Forecasts. These publications include economic, political and legal analysis on over 190 countries.
  
  
• EIU Country Data
  Analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 270 statistical variables in series for each of 115 countries. Major data categories include economic structure, foreign payments, external debt stock, external debt service, external trade, trends in foreign trade, quarterly indicators.
  
  

Valuation

• Copeland, Tom and Vladimir Antikarov. Real Options: A Practitioner’s Guide.
  HG6024 A3 C67 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
• Trigeorgis, Lenos. Real Options: Managerial Flexibility and Strategy in Resource Allocation.
  HG4028 C4 T73 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  

• Additional sources can be found in CLIO, the library catalog
  Search by subject: business enterprises - valuation

Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry

• See research guide on Alternative Investment
  
  
• British Venture Capital Association
  Good industry statistics and resources.
  
  
• The Entrepreneurial Venture
  HD 62.5 E56 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
• European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
  Good industry statistics and resources.
  
  
• MoneyTree Survey
  A quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. This survey is collaboration between PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association
  
  
• National Venture Capital Association Yearbook
  HG4961.N382 (Business Reference)
  
  
• Private Equity and Venture Capital [via Thomson ONE Banker]
  Once in the database click on the Private Equity tab. 
  
  
• Risk and Reward: Venture Capital and the Making of America's Great Industries.
  HG4963.D66 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
• The Venture Capital Cycle
  HG4963. G66 (Business Course Reserves)
  
  
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