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Writing a Business Proposal/Plan

Small Business Administration: Starting a Business

http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan

Mohave Community College: How to Write a Business Plan

https://www.mohave.edu/assets/How-to-Write-a-Business-Plan.pdf

UC San Diego: Entrepreneurial Challenge

https://www.facebook.com/EChallenge

Shidler College of Business: PPT presentation – How to Write a Great Business Plan (student prepared)

http://pace.shidler.hawaii.edu/sites/pace.shidler.hawaii.edu/files/bpc/GreatBusinessPlans.pdf

Harvard Business Review: How to Improve Your Business Writing

https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-to-improve-your-business-writing

University of Pennsylvania: Knowledge@Wharton
The Wharton School is committed to sharing its intellectual capital through Knowledge@Wharton, the school's online business journal.
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Knowledge@Wharton offers access to:
-Analysis of current business trends
-Interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty
-Articles based on the most recent research
-Conference overviews, book reviews and links to relevent content
-Searchable database of over 1,500 articles and research abstracts
BusinessWire
Business Wire, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the global market leader in commercial press release distribution.
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Thousands of member companies and organizations depend on Business Wire to transmit their full-text news, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, financial professionals, investor services, regulatory authorities and the general public worldwide.
Yahoo! Finance
Cincinnati Business Courier
the Cincinnati Business Courier, where you'll find the latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day, some of this week's top stories from the Courier and other popular features from the print edition.

Economics

American Economic Association: Resources for Economists on the Internet
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists more than 2,000 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
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Almost all resources are also described. In selecting resources for RFE, I exercise some editorial judgment and select items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or are specialized to a given area.
Economagic.com: Economic Time Series
This page is meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting.
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This site (set of web pages) was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class. The idea was to give students easy access to large amounts of data, and to be able to quickly get charts of that data. This is also useful during class, so that when we use the computer and overhead projector facility in class, we can quickly retrieve series and do manipulations in class.
The Library of Economics
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.
U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner.
U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
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Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. As an independent statistical agency, BLS serves its diverse user communities by providing products and services that are objective, timely, accurate, and relevant.