Inside this Guide
- Business Plans
- Legal Information
- Licenses & Permits
- Financing
- Industry Norms & Financial Ratios
- Locating Your Business
- Minority & Women Owned Businesses
Assistance, Counseling, Training
- SCORE at Rockville Memorial Library
- Small Business Assistance & Counseling
- Online Business Training
- Local Business Training
- Incubators
- Networking
- Legal Information for Business Owners
- Human Resources
- Contracting & Procurement
- Import/Export
- Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Other MCPL Business Guides
- Company & Industry Research
- Jobs & Careers
- Nonprofits & Charities
- Investing & Personal Finance
- Leadership
- Consumer Information
Programs on Starting Your Business

SCORE DC is conducting a series of programs this Spring at the Germantown Library for starting a business. Programs are free, but registration is required. Topics to be covered include:
- Essentials of starting a business - Tuesday, March 19, 2013
- Developing a Business Plan - Tuesday, April 16, 2013
- Accounting fundamentals for small businesses - Tuesday, May 21, 2013
MCPL's Premium Electronic Resources for Starting & Running a Business
Access to these services requires a library card from Montgomery County Public Libraries and a PIN. Having access problems? If so, please see our Troubleshooting page or call Ask-a-Librarian at 240-777-0001.
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Business Plans Handbook Series Each volume of this e-book series contains templates and 25 sample plans for manufacturing, service, and retail businesses. Click on the "eTable of Contents" link for each volume to see the specific types of businesses covered. |
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Small Business Resource Center Articles from reference books and periodicals covering all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more. |
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Research your market and your competition. Find similar businesses in your geographic area, using mapping or radius search features. Search for companies by location, by industry, by size. Tutorials and webcasts.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Full-text reference books including Business Plans Handbook, Encyclopedia of Management, and Encyclopedia of Small Business. Fully searchable and browsable. |
Safari Books OnlineE-books about starting a business, as well as other business and technical topics. Please note: The titles do not download, you can read them from within your browser. We also want you to know that MCPL has a limited number of concurrent users on this product. If you can't get in, clear your browser's Temporary Internet Files, and try again after a while. |
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Legal FormsBusiness, personal, real estate, contract, and general law forms plus forms specific to Maryland. From Gale. |
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