Business Resources
Business Assistance/Counseling/Advise
Small Business Development Center @ YSU 330-941-2140, pkveisz@ysu.edu and YSU students give existing businesses help
Score.org -> Find a Mentor -> Mentor Matchmaker-> In Middle –‘Search for a mentor’
Minority Business Assistance Center-Youngstown Business Incubator
Valley Partners has a Business Resource Manager on staff to help with business plans for loans
Business Incubators &/or Small Business Programs Locally
BRITE Energy Innovators/BRITEbase, BRITEelevate
Common Wealth Kitchen Incubator
Oak Hill Collaborative Makerspace, Connecting to Internet, Computer Classes
Youngstown Business Incubator/YBI’s Women Owned We Create, We Launch, We Thrive, Minority Business Assistance Center
YSU College of Business/SBA's T.H.R.I.V.E. Emerging Leaders in the Youngstown area (YSU)
YWCA Mahoning Valley We 360
Business Plans
Business Plan Templates from SCORE -fill in the blank
Gale Business: DemographicsNOW -statistics -Tutorial video on business page under Services
SBDCnet.org -over 800 examples of different types of businesses
Companies/Markets
Business Source Complete -keyword a company, industry, or issue
Mergent Archives -Digital Corporate Manual Collection (ex/past annual reports of public companies)
Mergent Intellect -Company
Reference Solutions -Tutorial video on business page under Services
ThomasNet.com -website is good at finding suppliers for hard-to-find products ex/Extruded plastic with ISO #
-must register with email and password only to search by details
Investing
S&P Global Net Advantage -Publicly traded companies, annual reports, market cap (what a company is worth), stock price
Weiss Financial Ratings Series -Financial literacy, stock and bond prices, banks, credit unions, insurance companies, Medigap
Legal
LegalForms ex/operating agreement for an LLC tells how a business operates, people leave, people join, selling the business
Start Up
1st Stop Business
When looking for a business to open, people often want to know what to do in a certain position like a manager, accountant, or another position. They are often looking for information that is not always available from the competition/other companies. This is when you should use the websites below to look for associations that contain the companies. (ex/Hershey’s chocolate statistics -> chocolate association)
Other Resources
Occupational Outlook Handbook -Trends, Description of Jobs, Demand
O*Net Online -Task, Technology, Skills, Work Activities, Work Context, Knowledge, Education, Abilities, Associations
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