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How to Set Up Your Own Small Business [Ref HD 62.7 F35 1999]

How to Write a Business Plan [Ref HD 30.28 M3839 1999]

Small Business Advisor [Ref HD 62.7 E568 1999]

Business Plan Center 
Sample plans, guides, tools, advice, and Moot's Business plan competition plans.

Business Plan Guides 
Detailed guides, by topic, on issues related to starting a business.

LEGAL/GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS

Basic Facts about Trademarks 

General Information Concerning Patents 

Environmental Protection Agency Business and Industry 

OSHA Handbook for Small Businesses

MARKET RESEARCH

Encyclopedia of American Industries [Ref HC 102 E53]

Consumer USA 2005 [Ref HC 101 C744 2005]
Statistics on over 320 consumer products, including forecasts up to 2008.

Business Rankings Annual [Ref HG 4050 B87]
Compiles rankings on hundreds of business categories, compiled from many different sources.

Market Share Reporter [Ref HF 5410 .M35] and World Market Share Reporter [Ref HD 2757.15 .W67]
Market shares of leading companies for thousands of products.

Consumer Expenditure Survey
BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) produces this large, annual survey of what people spend their money on, for US as a whole.

Community sourcebook of ZIP code demographics [Ref HA203 .S66]
 
American Marketplace: Demographics and Spending Patterns [Ref HA 214 A6 2003]

California Cities, Towns, and Counties [Ref HA 261 C295]

America's top-rated cities: a statistical handbook 

California Demographics

California Statistical Abstract [also in print: Ref HA 261 C295]

ClickZStats
Data on web usage and the online advertising industry.

FINANCING and FNANCIALS. U.S.

SBA Financing Your Business 

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios [Ref HF 5681 R25 A45]
Compiles 'ratios' by industry (using NAICS Codes), which analyze various measures of firms' use of capital and profitability.

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios [Ref HF 5681 R25 I52]
Same as above, using SIC Codes.

BusinessFinance.com 
Search for sources of capital, including loans and venture capital.