COMPANY INFORMATION:

10K Wizard
http://www.tenkwizard.com/
Free, easy access to the 10K Annual Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1994-onward. Also lists the largest stock holdings in selected pension funds, recent insider trading, and other financial information of interest.

CNNfn
http://www.cnnfn.com/index.html
Late-breaking business news, markets, small business information, and more.

EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
Full text of thousands of annual reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission by publicly-held companies. 10K reports from 1994 to 2000 are available through this database.

Hoover's
http://www.hoovers.com/
Search by company name for capsule information about 14,000 public and private companies. Also includes a "Career Development" section that allows you to "Research Employers" and find out what it's like to work for a specific company.

Internet Sources for U.S. Corporate, Industrial, and Economic Information
http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/buselec.htm
Links to web sites with business news, company information, business legal resources, investment information, economic data, and information about specific industries.

Lycos Companies Online
http://www.companiesonline.com/
Search by company name, ticker symbol, location, or industry for brief information about 900,000 public and private companies, courtesy of Lycos and Dun & Bradstreet.

1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm
What is the SIC product code for pacemakers? Type "pacemakers" in the search box at this site and get both the older Standard Industrial Code and the new North American Industrial Code.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
http://www2.thomasregister.com/
Register to search, for free, this directory of 156,914 U.S. and Canadian manufacturing companies and over 135,415 brand names.

WSRN.com: Company Research
http://www.wsrn.com/companyResearch.xpl
Search by company name or ticker symbol for news about a company, financial information, research reports, and other information about it.

Yahoo! News Business Reuters
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/business/
Headline business news from the Reuters News Service.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

Business Owner's Toolkit
http://www.toolkit.cch.com/
Click on "SOHO Guidebook" for information on starting, financing, managing and marketing your small business, or on "Business Tools" for useful worksheets, forms, templates, sample business plans, and policy statements.

CBDNet
http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov/search1.html
Search CBDNet for the full-text of the COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY which lists, each business day, between 500 and 1,000 "government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information".

Idea Cafe's "How Much Do You Need?"
http://www.ideacafe.com/getmoney/fgr_howmuch.html
Explains the basics of budgeting for a new business, provides a worksheet for calculating income and expenses, and has links to small business and start-up financing websites.

Online Women's Business Center
http://www.onlinewbc.org/
Detailed information, for women, on starting, growing, expanding, financing, managing, and marketing a business. Also includes technology tips, small business success stories, and a directory of women's business centers.

Small Business Knowledge Base
http://www.bizmove.com/
How to's for entrepreneurs on starting a business, managing personnel, sales and marketing, and other information on running a small business.

SBA: Starting Your Business - Startup Kit
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/starting/indexstartup.html
Available in Spanish, as well as English, this site tells how to get a business started, locate financing, learn bout business regulations, and find assistance.

SeaQuest's Small Business Resource Center
http://www.webcom.com/seaquest/sbrc/welcome.html
Click on "Free Reports" for information on preparing a business plan and starting specific types of small businesses - day care center, temp service, catering business, bed & breakfast, and more.

Smart Business Supersite
http://www.smartbiz.com/
Search or browse from over 60 categories of business topics, including ones on franchising, home-based businesses, direct marketing, and managing nonprofits.

U.S. Business Advisor
http://www.business.gov/
Tips on doing business with the federal government, obtaining financing, trading with other countries, and understanding government laws and regulations about labor and employment.

FOREIGN TRADE:

Company Directories/ Yellow Pages
http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres/Static/Company-Directories-Yellow-Pages.htm
Links to international, regional, and country-specific business directories on the World Wide Web compiled by Michigan State University.

Corporate Information
http://www.corporateinformation.com/
Search this database for 350,000 profiles of companies operating in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Also makes available 20,000 company profiles and 15,000 research reports on publicly-traded companies from additional countries.

FITA - International Trade - Web Resources
http://www.fita.org/webindex/index.html
Look under "Shortcuts" for the Federation of International Trade Associations links to global, country-specific, and industry-specific "Business Directories". The site also has "Codes, Standards and Conversions", "Business Travel Guides", "Trade and Economic Statistics", and addresses of American and foreign "International Trade Associations, including Chambers of Commerce".

Getting Through Customs
http://www.getcustoms.com/omnibus.html
Learn about cultural differences in doing business in other countries, then test "Your Cultural IQ".

TradePort International Trade
http://www.tradeport.org/ts/
Bay Trade of Los Angeles provides links to foreign trade regulations, a collection of international "Desktop References", and - if you click on "Market Research" - links to information about each country through its "Country Library".

Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ucc/
Compares the value of one country's currency against another's.

U.S. Department of State, Country Commercial Guides Index
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/index.html
Information about economic trends and outlook, political environment, trade regulations and standards, product marketing, U.S. products imported, investment climate, business travel tips, and statistics on many countries of the world.

INVESTMENTS:

Big Charts
http://www.bigcharts.com/
Market headlines, Dow Jones,NASDAQ, and S&P 500 charts, quick stock quotes, and historical values of stocks for each trading day since 1970 can be found here.

Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive
http://www.fundsinteractive.com/
Profiles leading fund managers, explains the basics of mutual fund investing, and provides mutual fund quotes.

CyberInvest.com: The Investor's Guide to the Net
http://www.cyberinvest.com/
Tells how to get started in online investing, avoid Internet fraud, select stocks and mutual funds, or track the performance of a stock. Also allows you to search by name or ticker symbol for "Company Snapshots".

Money.com
http://www.money.com/money/
News, markets, and stock quotes from Money Magazine.

Moneynet Home Page
http://www.moneynet.com/home/MONEYNET/homepage/homepage.asp
Read business headlines, check on stock market activity, and get quick quotes here.

Public Debt: Bureau of the Public Debt Homepage
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/
Lists the latest savings bonds and T-bill rates, tells how to set up a Treasury Direct account, lists dates of T-bill, notes, and bonds auctions, and provides both current and historical statements of the public debt.

Quicken.com Investments
http://www.quicken.com/investments/?pid=110061356172995
Read the latest business news or use Quicken's "Smart Investing Tools" to find, evaluate, and track your favorite stocks.

Quote.com, Inc.
http://www.quote.com/quotecom/
Get market statistics, business and economic news, stock quotes, or learn more about investing at their "Insight Center".

Vanguard Group's Investor Education Center
http://www.vanguard.com/educ/inveduc.html
Online courses in investing in mutual funds and planning for retirement.

MINNESOTA BUSINESS:

Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota
http://www.mnd.bbb.org/search.html
Searchable database of over 46,000 companies operating in Minnesota and North Dakota. Information for each company includes its name, address, telephone, date founded, name of CEO, type of business, and any adverse reports about its operation.

BizLinks Home Page
http://www.bizlinks.org/
Sponsored by the State of Minnesota, this site has links to information about the State's labor laws, business filings, licenses and permits, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, taxes, zoning, and other information useful to Minnesota businesses.

CityBusiness, The Business Journal of the Twin Cities
http://www.twincities.bcentral.com
Researching a Twin Cities business? Try this business magazine. Its archives go back to 1996.

Connect Business Online: The Magazine For Growing Businesses in Southern Minnesota
http://www.connectbiz.com/
Terrific source of in-depth articles about businesses in Southern Minnesota!

PATENTS:

Databases: Patent Full-Text and Bibliographic
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers the full-text of patents from 1976 to the present, and full images, searchable only by patent number of class, of inventions patented between 1790 and 1976.

Delphion Intellectual Property Network
http://www.delphion.com/ibm.html
Free search of U.S., European, and Japanese. Check out its gallery of obscure patents!

Lemelson-MIT Prize Program's Handbook for Inventors
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/handbook/index.html
Online guide that answers many of the questions inventors have about patenting and licensing products.