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ENTR 300: Entrepreneurship - Starting Your Own Business

Business Plan Research Tools

Pay and Income

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Earnings by Occupation and Education
Pay & Benefits
Manipulable data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Information

Patent & Trademark Basic Resources
From the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
What to Know Before You Copyright a Creative Work
Goes over the difference between Copyright and Trademark.
General information concerning patents
From the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Protecting Your Ideas
From SCORE.

Planning Costs / Prices

Calculate your startup costs
Form near bottom of page shows an outline that you can use. From the U.S. Small Business Association
Consumer Price Index
"(A) measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a range of consumer goods and services as well as select utility, automotive fuel, and food items are also available."

Regulations

Doing Business, from the World Bank
Provides information about doing business in different countries.

Some Forms

Business Plans

Gale Business Entrepeneurship - Library Database
Search for articles or browse using interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage. Includes actual business plans from the Business Plans Handbook.