1 - Geography/Moving/Where to Live
2 - Identifying Careers
3 - Salaries
4 - Industry Research
5 - Company Research
6 - Company Research & Contact Info
7 - Beyond Contact Information

8 - More Specific Company Research
9 - Self-Employed and Home Business
10 - Part-Time, Contract, & Temporary Work
11 - Non-Profits and Social Conscience
12 - Work for Minorities
13 - Work for Women
14 - Work for the Disabled

Yikes, but there is a lot of information here for the small business owner. Everything about your business: starting, planning, financing, marketing, hiring, managing, getting government contracts, taxes; all that stuff.

The SBA was established to help start, manage, and grow small businesses (bear in mind that they define "small business" as one with less than 500 employees; they could have called it "The Almost All Businesses Administration"). Lots of useful stuff here; also, check out the "Starting a Business" resources at www.sba.gov/starting_business/index.html .

Great site for the small business owner.

The Wall Street Journal brings their considerable resources to bear on this site for the entrepreneur. Many articles, how-tos, advice, & resources for the business owner.

The workplace is changing dramatically. Among these changes is the fact that for some, self-employment has become a broader concept than it was in another age. The concept (for some) now includes not only those who own their own business, but also free agents: independent contractors who work for several clients; temps and contract employees who work each day through temporary agencies; limited-time-frame workers who work only for a set time, as on a project, then move on to another company; consultants, etc. This is a fascinating article to help you decide if you want to be part of this trend, on the site of the popular magazine Fast Company.

Working Solo is a good site for the home or small business worker. The best stuff on this site is at www.workingsolo.com/resources/resources.html.

Nolo Press publishes a lot of do-it-yourself law books; this is the part of their web site that offers legal resources for the small business person. Really good.

Entrepreneur Magazine's Web site. They have: lists of home based businesses, Start-Up Ideas, How to Raise Money, Shoestring Startups, Small Business Myths, a Franchise & Business Opportunity Site-Seeing Guide, and a lot more. As I write, you are allowed access to the magazine's archives, with full text of many articles, stretching back to January of 1997. (This complete, no-fee archive access is unusual for most magazines.) Many resources and articles for self-employed, home business, franchises; cool stuff.

One of the banes of being self-employed is dealing with the taxes; this site has over 1,300 pages helping you handle all of that. Articles, resources, links, downloadable tax forms (going back 10 years!) in PDF files; of course they're selling something (e-filing tax returns), but it has a lot of good, free information about what self-employed persons have to do vis-à-vis taxes, in the U.S. at least.

There are some good resources on the AARP site, but they are not all easy to find. Your best bet is probably to do a site search on whatever you want to know ("small business resources" works well; try others), because there are hundreds of articles and useful links on the site; they just aren"t organized particularly well at the time I write this. (Remember, this is the Internet; if you don't like something, just check back tomorrow; it'll be different. Works if you like something, too.)

Not everyone using the Internet is as nice as you and I; there are even people in the world who might try and take advantage of a trusting nature. Here is an article to help you protect yourself.

A short article from the Better Business Bureau.