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Small Business Administration
SBA Web site
www.sba.gov
If you had to select only one small business resource, the SBA site would be an excellent choice. The agency covers every aspect of planning, starting, financing, operating, and growing a business in depth; it even discusses exit strategies.
A seemingly endless list of resources can be accessed through this incredible site, including information and links to virtually every resource developed specifically to help women who seek to start or who currently own businesses.
Of particular interest:
Office of Women’s Business Ownership
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/index.html
Women’s Business Centers (also see “Online Women’s Business Centers” under the federal government business heading below, www.Business.gov.)
A downloadable PDF containing contact information for those interested in counseling at one of the 100 women’s business centers throughout the United States. Listings for centers in New York State begin on page 24 of the document:
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/wbc.pdf
Small Business Planner
http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html
Women’s Services
http://www.sba.gov/services/specialaudiences/women/index.html
SBA Small Business Resource Guide: Helping Small Businesses Start, Grow and Succeed
www.sbaguides.com
The latest SBA national resource guide, published in Fall 2006, can be accessed by clicking on the magazine cover on the right as soon as you have entered the sbaguides.com site. Called the “Best Stop for One-Stop Shopping” by Money magazine in June 2006, the national guide contains extensive information on every aspect of starting and running a business in downloadable PDF form.
Of particular interest:
Chart summarizing all SBA-guaranteed loans, page 11
Small Business Resources for New York 2006
http://www.sbaguides.com/pdf/english/newyork-nyc.pdf
A valuable and downloadable 52-page regional resource guide that covers much of the same ground as the national report, but with information targeted at residents of individual New York counties. Both the national and regional guides are invaluable.
Small Business Development Centers
Affiliated with the SBA, universities, and private resources, SBDCs are valuable sources of expertise, guidance, and sometimes, access to much-needed financing.
Among the valuable, and often free, workshops conducted by the SBDCs on Long Island:
“Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights;” “Basics of a Home-Based Business;” and “Is Your Web Site Working for You?”
The following SBDCs are located on Long Island:
Nassau County
Small Business Development Center
SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale
Campus Commons
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Tel: (631) 420-2765, (631) 370-8888
Fax: (631) 370-8895
Suffolk County
Small Business Development Center
SUNY at Stony Brook
Harriman Hall, Room 103
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3775
Tel: (516)632-9070
Fax: (631) 632-7176
SUNY at Stony Brook also maintains the following two outreach centers:
Calverton Office:
The New York State Small Business Development Center
Calverton Incubator
4603 Middle Country Road
Calverton, NY 11933
(631) 727-3992
Great River Office:
The New York State Small Business Development Center
Long Island Business Technology Center
3500 Sunrise Highway
Great River, NY 11739
(631) 859-8929 |
