Research Guides: Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Welcome

Associations, Organizations, and Agencies

America's SBDC America's SBDC is the association that represents America's nationwide network of Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs).
Edward Lowe Foundation Ed and Darlene Lowe established the Edward Lowe Foundation in 1985 to leverage entrepreneurship as a strategy for economic growth and community development. The foundation's entrepreneurship initiatives are focused on second-stage companies — growth-oriented firms that have moved beyond startup but haven’t yet reached maturity.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) "The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) represents 325,000 small businesses in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and is dedicated to leveling the playing field with Big Business, Big Government, and Big Labor in every key area – taxes, healthcare, regulations, and more."
Small Business Association (SBA) The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.

Entrepreneurship by BarCharts, Inc. "Strengthen skills, know where to start and reduce your risk. Growing in universities as a separate degree in itself, any business major or inspired self-starter will find a barrage of tools that create a road map to the American Dream."
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2015

Starting a Business (Entrepreneur Magazine)
Starting a Business (New Jersey)
Business Checklist (SBDC Pennsylvania) The Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) offer a variety of educational events and workshops all across the state to address the many needs of small businesses.
Entrepreneur’s Guide 2019 Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Updated September, 2019

The entrepreneur's playbook : more than 100 proven strategies, tips, and techniques to build a radically successful business by Leonard C. Green "Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business. Based on his popular Ultimate Entrepreneurship course, the book explains how to:Locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products Get serious about positioning, distributing, and licensing Find funding."
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2017
The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business by David S. Rose "The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases, and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business."
Call Number: eBook and copy at Drexel Library
Publication Date: 2016

Statista Includes a broad range of statistics from national and international data sources, searchable by industries, markets, topics, and countries.

Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) The new Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) are a product of the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual series describes establishment-level business dynamics along dimensions absent from similar databases including firm age and firm size.
National Small Business Poll 411SmallBusinessFacts.com is a searchable data base of approximately 2,000 facts about American small businesses and their owners (or managers) produced by the NFIB Research Foundation. The Foundation developed this information from telephone surveys of small employers – those employing from one person in addition to the owner(s) to 250. Data collection began in 2001 and continues through the present. The data are gathered regularly for a series of publications known as NFIB’s National Small Business Poll. New Poll data are added to 411SmallBusinessFacts.com eight times annually. The small business facts presented in the data base address a wide range of subject matter and include material which typically cannot be found in other sources.