DeVry University South Florida Library
Business Planning Resources Guide
July 2011
Library Books from the South Florida Library and DeVry Inc. Libraries-Use the Voyager catalog at http://library.devry.edu to locate business titles held by the
South Florida and other DeVry University campus libraries. You can “Request an Item”
from other DeVry libraries using your Student D number in the Voyager online catalog.
Business Planning Guide: Creating a Winning Plan for Success. Dearborn Trade, 2002.
(Call Number: HD 30.28 .B362 2002)
Business Plans for Dummies. 2nd ed. Wiley, 2005. (Call Number: HD 30.28 .T575 2005)
Business Plans Made Easy. Entrepreneur Media, 1999. (Call Number: HD 30.28 .H474
1999)
Entrepreneur Magazine’s Creating a Successful Business Plan. 4th ed. Entrepreneur
Media, 1999. (Call Number: HD 30.28 .E58 1999)
How to Prepare and Present a Business Plan. Prentice-Hall, 1983.
(Call Number: HG 4027.7 .M35 1983)
Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business. AMACOM, 2005.
(Call Number: HG 4027.6 .S534 2005)
Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur's Guidebook. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
(Call Number: HD62.7 .S5943 2003)
Tips and Traps for Writing an Effective Business Plan. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
(Call Number: HD 30.28 .B335 2007)
Journals & Magazines Available from the South Florida Library-The journals, magazines and newspapers are arranged alphabetically in the Periodical
Section of the library. The library maintains the current year of core business magazines.
Selected print business titles received by the DeVry University South Florida Library
include:
Black Enterprise
Business Horizons
Business Week
Entrepreneur
Florida Trend: The Magazine of Florida Business
Forbes
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Fortune
Fortune Small Business
Harvard Business Review
Hispanic Business
South Florida Business Journal (last six months)
Wall Street Journal (current month only)
Books 24x7 eBook Collection-Business for Beginners: From Research and Business Plans to Money, Marketing and the
Law. Sourcebooks, 2005.
Business Planning Pocketbook. 2nd ed. Management Pocketbooks, 2009.
Guide to Business Planning. Profile Books, 2009.
EBSCO eBook Collection-http://library.devry.edu
Anatomy of a Business Plan. 7th ed. Out of Your Mind, 2008.
Business Planning Guide. Dearborn, 1998.
Business Plans Kit for Dummies. 3rd ed. Wiley, 2010.
Business Plans to Game Plans. Silver Lake Publishing, 1994.
Complete Book of Business Plans. 2nd ed. Sourcebook, 2006.
Creating a Total Rewards Strategy: A Toolkit for Designing Business-based Plans.
AMACOM, 2003.
Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth. Wiley, 1999.
Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought: Plan Your Start-up with the End in Mind. Wiley,
2009.
How to Write a .com Business Plan. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Inc. Magazine Presents How to Create a Successful Marketing Plan. 3rd ed. Business
Resources, 1996.
If You Want to Make God Laugh, Show Him Your Business Plan. Barry J. Capstone
Publishing, 1999.
Leading Edge Business Planning for Entrepreneurs. Dearborn, 1999.
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Preparing a Winning Business Plan. 4th ed. How-to-Books, 2007.
Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan. AMACOM, 2002.
Start-up Guide: A One-Year Plan for Entrepreneurs. Kaplan Publishing, 1998.
Strategic Business Planning for Accountants. Elsevier, 2007.
Your First Business Plan: A Simple Question and Answer Format. 5th ed. Sourcebooks,
2005.
eBrary-Leap! Ditch Your Job, Start Your Own Business, and Set Yourself Free. Capstone, 2008.
Starting a Successful Business. Kogan Page, 2005.
Venture Capital Funding: A Practice Guide to Raising Finance. 2nd ed. Kogan Page,
2008.
What No One Ever Tells Your About Financing Your Own Business: Real-life
Financing from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs. Dearborn Trade, 2005.
DeVry University Library Business Databases—
URL= http://library.devry.edu
Enter your D number for access and password (YYYYMM of birth)
ABI/INFORM Proquest
Includes full-text business journals, trade publications, Wall Street Journal, Datamonitor
reports and dissertations.
EBSCOhost
Provides the full text of articles from Harvard Business Review through its Business
Source Complete database.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Business Plans Handbook includes sample business plans in all industries.
Countries of the World and Their Leaders (2011 edition) provides useful information for
international business.
IBIS World
Access to over 800 industry market research reports, company research reports, global
industry reports, and business environment reports.
Lexis-Nexis Academic and Company Dossier
Business news, company research and financial information.
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Noodle Tools (To create an account—User Name: devry Password: citewell)
This database provides templates for documenting references consulted. The 6th edition
of the APA style manual is an option for creating a References list.
Plunkett Research Online
Covers over 30 industry centers in the U.S. and Canada. Will expand to include Green
Technologies and Asian companies. Provides market research and trends analysis,
industry statistics, important professional and trade associations, and company profiles in
each industry center.
Internet Web Resources
Specialized Search Engines-Business.com Search Engine
http://www.business.com
Open Source Directory Project /Small Business: Business Plans
http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Small_Business/Business_Plans/
Online Magazines-Business 2.0
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/
Business 2.0, a monthly magazine about business, technology, and innovation, is
published out of the FORTUNE Group at Time Inc., a Time Warner company. Dedicated
to ferreting out what works in today's constantly evolving business environment,
Business 2.0 provides readers with a firsthand glimpse of new and surprising ideas, the
people behind them, and how to put them to work.
Entrepreneur Magazine http://www.entrepreneur.com/
On-line edition of the popular Entrepreneur magazine, including articles (searchable for
the past 5 years), small business shareware library, bulletin boards, chat rooms, sample
business plans, and more
Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com
On-line edition of one of MyBusinessAnalyst's favorite print magazines! Contains plenty
of exciting articles about emerging businesses. The website is well organized, expansive,
and covers up to date issues for today's entrepreneur. It is a must read.
Inc. http://www.inc.com
Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help
business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully.
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Online Magazines (cont’d)-Venture Capital by Bloomberg BusinessWeek
http://bx.businessweek.com/venture-capital
Venture Capital Journal (Thomson Reuters) http://www.vcjnews.com
Provides news, data, analysis, and interpretation of trends in the private equity markets.
Small Business Funding Sources-United States Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business
Small Business Administration (SBA) has numerous programs and services designed to
help small businesses succeed. The web sites provides help in:
Business Plan Basics
Writing the Plan
Using the Plan
Specific Training
Business Loans
Federal Business Opportunities
http://www.fbo.gov
FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government
procurement opportunities that total more than 30,500 active listings. Government buyers
are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to the
FedBizOpps web portal..
Foundation Center http://www.fdncenter.org/
The Foundation Center assists not-for-profit organizations locate funds from a variety of
foundations, government agencies and philanthropists.
National Venture Capital Association http://www.nvca.org
Serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data with over 400 members in the
trade association.
Senior Corp of Retired Executive (SCORE) http://www.score.org
Nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses
start, grow, and succeed nationwide
VFinance Inc.
http://www.vfinance.com/
A directory of venture capital sources.
General Business Web Sites-American Express Small Business Plan Resources
http://www.ronzpages.com/business-plan/american-express-small-business-planresources.html
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Better Business Bureau http://www.bbbonline.org/
Phone: (703) 276-0100
Instant access to business and consumer alerts and resources. File a complaint online and
locate your local bureau. This web site is sponsored by the Council of Better Business
Bureaus and the BBB system of over 150 bureaus located throughout the United States
and Canada.
B-plans.com http://www.bplans.com/
This web site contains the largest single collection of free sample business plans online.
Start a Small Business in Florida
http://www.eflorida.com/Why_Florida.aspx?id=8920
This State of Florida web site provides continually updated links to web resources related
to business startups.
How to Write a Business Plan
http://www.business-plan.20m.com/how_to_write_a_business_plan_av.html
The site shows you how to develop a successful Business Plan.
Nolo Business Plans and Financing
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/financing
Small business information from the legal research publisher which covers starting a
business, choosing a business structure, writing a business plan, and business operations.
Securities and Exchange Commission Information for Small Business
http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus.shtml
The Security and Exchange Commission's guide to help you understand the capital
raising process and how to comply with the federal securities laws.
Start-a-Business.com
http://www.start-a-business.com/
One stop shop for business incorporation within the U.S. and offshore.
DVDS and Video Streaming (Use the Voyager catalog to locate DVDs on small
business)
Films on Demand Video Streaming Library
Over 6,100 educational videos that include business management and small business
topics
Visit the DeVry University South Florida Library website at-http://www.mir.devry.edu/data.html
User Name: devrymiramar Password: films
(Revised 7/26/2011 M. Howrey)
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