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Use these sources to find information on starting a new business:

• Center for Entrepreneurial Studies: A collection of videos of the first Entrepreneurial Industry Panels programs on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities in Energy, Education, Internet, Health Care, and Retail sectors.
• Journal databases, such as ABI Inform and Business Source Complete: Find journal and news articles. For ABI, search under the subject "development stages enterprises"; for Business Source Complete, use subject "new business enterprises". 
• Jackson Library Catalog: Find books and journals using "new business enterprises" as the subject search term.

Use these databases to find information on new products and technologies:

• Gartner Research: Find news analysis and research summaries on new trends and products in different industry sectors with the emphasis on technology. Select Markets, Topics, or Industries from the Research Fast Finder section on the Home page. Note the Emerging Trends and Technologies topic. 
• Business Source Complete: In Advanced Search, enter industry terms as a subject or keywords and select "Product Review" as a document type. For general search on emerging technologies, use subjects "technological innovations", "technological forecasting", and "new products". 
• ABI/INFORM Global: Find articles using the subject terms "technological change, "innovations", and "product development". 

Access journals articles via the eJournals page.  Some notable titles include:

• Entrepreneur
• Fast Company
• MIT Sloan Management Review
• Twice - consumer electronics

Use below databases to find a company that matches your specific criteria. To find companies developing new technologies, use keyword search in the companies' business description field.

• OneSource North America Business Browser: Select Companies > Build a List from the top menu to screen companies. Use this database to find company's peers and competitors. 
• Capital IQ: Use Company Intelligence section to screen companies. Use this database to find company's peers and competitors. Good source for private companies.
• Hoover Online: Use Advanced Search option to screen companies. 

Check the Jackson Career Corner:

• Book of Lists: Find lists of top private companies in California metropolitan areas and the Bay Area.

Use the below databases to create custom comparative reports on companies performance within custom companies groups.

• Capital IQ: Use Screening & Analytic > Comparable Company Analysis to create a side-by side performance report based on your selected criteria, such as financials, market data, etc., for your custom companies set. Database includes both public and private companies. 
• ORBIS: Use Peer Analyses to compare performance of your subject company against a custom set of companies or use Peer Report to compare performance of your subject company against a preselected group of companies within the same industry sector.
• Thomson One Banker-Analytics: Create custom sets of companies based on your selected criteria or use the "Peer companies" group and create a side-by-side companies performance reports based on your selected criteria such as financials, market data, etc. Database includes both public and private companies. 
• Thomson Investext (IE Browser only): Select Research link in the left navigation column to find analysts’ research on companies and industries. 

• Preparing Effective Business Plans : an entrepreneurial approach Catalog record
• Business Plans Handbook : a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America Catalog record
  
• Bankable business plans • Catalog record
  

Sample business plans are available from a number of websites:

• Moor Corp Competition - sample plans from MBAs.
• Bplan.com
• Business.gov

Use these sources to check industry performance:

• S&P NetAdvantage: Select S&P industry survey for a particular industry or industry sector to learn about the current environment of an industry, trends, how the industry operates, key ratios, and how to analyze a company in the industry. 
• OneSource North America Business Browser: Select Industries > Industries Browse from the top menu and drill down to the market reports or analyst reports in the selected industry sector. 
• Capital IQ: Select Market Analysis to find key developments and latest transactions in the selected industry sector.
• Mintel: Find the latest market research reports in the selected industry sector. Search options include keyword search. 
• Thomson Investext (IE Browser only): Select Research link in the left navigation column to find analyst reports in the selected industry sector. 
• Jupiter Research: Find research on eCommerce. 
• InfoTech Trends: Find statistics and information on trends and forecasts in IT industry. 
• IBISWorld: Find research on every US industry within the four-digit NAICS code.

• Capital IQ: Select Analytics and Targeting to screen for investors that match your criteria.
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Survey: Learn where VCs invest from a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the U.S.
• Venture Capital Database: Fom a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association, find the recipients of funding from venture-capital firms for the past four quarters.

For print industry guide and directories, check the Reference collection in Venture Capital section. Notable titles are:

• Galante's venture capital & private equity directory - an electronic version is also available at Jackson Library's CD-ROM Workstation (Stanford Users may obtain online access at the Information Desk of the Library ) • Catalog record
• Pratt’s Guide to Private Equity & Venture Capital Sources - basic description of VC and PE firms worldwide. Introductory articles discuss the strategies of approaching and structuring deals with investors. Catalog record

For more print sources, search Jackson Library Catalog using the subject term "venture capital".