Useful websites | Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA)

You are hereUseful websites

Useful websites

Blogs

FINANCE & FUNDING

FOR ENTREPRENEURS & SMALL BUSINESS

About.com Entrepreneurs
About.com provides a regularly updated resource on entrepreneurship including links to a variety of resources, both on About.com and elsewhere on the internet.

Business Week Small Business
Site is published by Business Week magazine and is a good source of news and information for small businesses.

Center for Innovative Technology
CIT seeks to close innovation gaps in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation by focusing on new technologies, entrepreneurs, technology companies that make innovation happen.

Entrepreneur
Site is published by Entrepreneur magazine and is an excellent site for entrepreneurs, featuring a solid collection of articles and tips.

Minority Entrepreneurs
An industry group site associated with Entrepreneur.com and is dedicated to minority small business owners, providing discussions and advice on challenges facing minority business owners.

SCORE
SCORE offers free and confidential business advice through online and face-to-face mentoring. The site is full of useful resources to assist entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Small Business Development Centers (VA)
This site links you to 29 local SBDCs across Virginia which provide professional business counseling, training and information resources to help grow and strengthen Virginia businesses.

Small Business Market
Site is published by the Wall Street Journal and is dedicated to small business issues and information.

Starting a Business in Virginia
Looking to start a business or just want to know more about where to go to get information, this site provides a wealth of information on licensing, registering a business, environmental permitting, taxes and much more.

US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The USDA has a number of programs targeted to develop and assist rural business and communities.

US Patent and Trademark Office
This is the official site for searching the U.S. patent database as well as looking up international treaties, statutes and patent news.

US Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns.

Virginia Department of Business Assistance (DBA)
DBA is a state economic development agency providing business information services, access to small business financing and other incentive programs to assist small businesses.

Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
A free service connects you with a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in your geographic region that can best meet your financial and business needs. Look up a firm or company by name, city, services offered or industries served.

FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

RESOURCE SITES

Center for Women’s Business Research
A non-profit research institute dedicated to producing intelligence showing the economic and social impact of women's entrepreneurship.

Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
The Center’s mission is to be the national, value-added resource for rural communities and regions, and their states, interested in building more sustainable economic development frameworks around entrepreneurship.

Consortium for Entrepreneurial Education
The Consortium is a leading advocacy and resource group for entrepreneurship education for grades K-14 and adult education.

Edward Lowe Foundation
The foundation actively embraces and encourages entrepreneurship as the source and strategy for economic growth, community development and economically independent individuals.

Entrepreneurship.org
Entrepreneurship.org features a vast array of content and resources to assist entrepreneurs, business mentors, policy makers, academics and investors through each phase of the entrepreneurial process. The content ranges from resources entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship.

Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation
The Kauffman Foundation is often referred to as one of the largest foundations in the United States—or as the world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research program is an annual assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity. Started as a partnership between London Business School and Babson College, it was initiated in 1999 and in 2009 conducts research in 56 countries.

National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
The NBIA is the world’s leading organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. NBIA serves more than 1,900 members in over 60 nations.

National Women’s Business Council
The National Women's Business Council is a bi-partisan federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners.

Virtual Enterprise Virginia
Virtual Enterprise VA is a method of instruction in simulated business operation that is used in Business Management and Marketing Management CTE courses. The daily operations of student-run, web-based businesses provide authentic experiences and real-world application of business principles.

WEB APPLICATIONS

Corporate Sponsors