Entrepreneurship
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Descriptive Career Information
Career Profile - Entrepreneur
http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=60
Entrepreneurship: An Alternate Career Choice
http://www.score.org/entrepreneurship_career.html
Online Resource Guides
Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS)
The section "Working for Yourself" (found under Occupations and Employment) offers an excellent introduction to entrepreneurship issues and options. Highlights include the "Is Self Employment Right for You?" section, an extensive local resource guide, and profiles of careers with 10% or more self-employment. (Note: MassCIS is free to all Massachusetts residents. If it's your first visit, skip over the log-in section, and just enter your town and zip code for access.)
http://masscis.intocareers.org/
Vault Online Career Library
Download the Vault Guide to Starting Your Own Business, a full-length e-book, or check out the Career Advice page for articles on starting your own business (under "Work/Life" section).
- NOTE:
- Current students and staff can access Vault on campus and remotely using their Simmons log-in: http://0-www.vault.com.library.simmons.edu/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=2336
- Alumni have off-site access to the Vault Online Career Library provided by the Simmons Office of Alumnae/i Relations with Alumnet registration with Alumnet registration. To register for Alumnet, go to: https://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/pub/SNS/register/register.cgi.
- To log-on to Vault through Alumnet, go to: http://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/membersonly/SNS/career_lib.html
- A free version of Vault, which also contains the Vault job board, is available at http://www.vault.com.
US Small Business Administration
A comprehensive resource for entrepreneurs, this site covers all aspects of small business planning, management, and development. Includes free online training, information about financial and legal issues, resources for women and other special audiences, and links to local resources.
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
Online Women's Business Center
Resources from the Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership, including a national list of women's business centers.
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/
Center for Women and Enterprise
Boston's local women's business center. Offers free and inexpensive workshops on topics related to starting a business. Site includes links to additional resources on all aspects of business planning.
http://www.cweonline.org/
Office of Business Development, City of Boston
Provides access to financial and technical resources for Boston entrepreneurs. Don't miss the "Boston Business Resource Guide," which includes a regulation checklist, as well as extensive annotated list of city, state, and national government agencies that provide resources, assistance, or information for business owners.
Download the complete guide at http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/obd/BRG/pdfs/complete_BBRG.pdf
http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/OBD/Default.asp
MA Small Business Development Center Network
Provides free management counseling services and free and low-cost seminars for small business owners.
http://www.msbdc.org/
Boston-area SBDC offices include:
- Boston College SBDC: http://www.bc.edu/centers/sbdc/
- UMass Boston SBDC and Minority Business Center: http://www.sbdc.umb.edu/
Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse (SBDCNet)
A gateway to web-based resources developed to help SBDC counselors assist small business owners (but anyone can use it).
http://sbdcnet.org/
SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)
Provides free email counseling to small business owners. The SCORE website also includes online workshops, business templates, and quizzes on entrepreneurship topics.
http://www.score.org/
BizToolkit
Free access option offers an annotated gateway to quality online resources for planning, marketing, managing, and growing your business. From the James J. Hill Business Reference Library.
http://www.biztoolkit.org/
Market Trends
"Entrepreneurship 101"
Kelly K. Spors writes this for the Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition; 3/19/2007, Vol. 249 Issue 64, pR4. Discussed here is the growing trend for colleges to offer entrepreneurship programs.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.simmons.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=24426301&site=ehost-live
"Lure of Entrepreneurship Beckons Boomers"
For Business Week Online; 1/17/2007, p24, Jeffrey Gangemi writes about several American baby boomers who decided to go into business for themselves. Motivational forces include worries about corporate trends such as layoffs, and pension cuts.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.simmons.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=23783255&site=ehost-live
"The New Nomads"
Written by Karen E. Klein for Business Week Online; 3/12/2007, p17, this article talks about tech-savvy 'mobile-preneurs' who manage their businesses remotely using virtual communities.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.simmons.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=24370718&site=ehost-live
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