6 Great Places to Find Business Ideas and Startup Information

Written on January 14, 2008 by Amanda M. Gladden

I. BizBuySell
A great alternative to starting your business from scratch is to buy an existing one. This site, in alliance with the Wall Street Journal Online, bills itself as “the Internet’s largest and most heavily trafficked business for sale marketplace. BizBuySell currently has an inventory of over 50,000 businesses for sale.

II. Edward Lowe Foundation
whose mission is to champion the entrepreneurial spirit by providing information, research and educational experiences that support entrepreneurship, in a collaboration with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the James J. Hill offers the Biz Info Library, a Reference Library with instant access to relevant, objective information written by some of the world’s top business information experts on starting and growing a business.

III.Business Owner’s Toolkit
has a comprehensive Small Business Guide covering everything from planning your business to locating financing to winning government contracts.

IV.NFIB Research Foundation
The NFIB Research Foundation, research arm of The National Federation of Independent Business is a great source of information about small business in the United States. Check out their Small-Business Economic Trends data or find out about the economic conditions of small businesses in your state in the NFIB Small-Business Conditions report.

V. The New York Times small business index of their small business articles including their popular Bright Ideas columns.

VI. Think your business idea is too odd to become profitable? Check out Unusual Business Ideas That Work. Dmitry Davydov’s blog brings you posts about “people who make money online selling unusual, strange and sometimes bizarre things or provide curious services”.