Websites
Funny Business
Check the list of websites on this page for a collection of more helpful resources that didn’t fit precisely into other categories.
Entrepreneur Network
A YouTube channel of business trends from Entrepreneur Magazine.
Business Blogs & RSS Feeds
- Financial Times RSS Feeds
Build your own subject-based feed to get news updates on selected topics from the digital version of the Financial Times.
- footnoted*
footnoted* is a highly acclaimed information service that uses proprietary search techniques to find both hidden opportunities and early signs of potential problems buried deep in routine SEC filings.
- Forbes Small Business Blog
A section of Forbes focused on news and advice for small businesses.
- Freakonomics
Blog and podcast by the bestselling authors of the popular but heavily criticized Freakonomics and its sequels.
- Harvard Business Review Podcasts
Podcasts focused on business management, sponsored by the Harvard Business Review.
- Wall Street Journal Business Blog
Business-related news from the Wall Street Journal.
- One Minute MBA
Minute MBA is your opportunity to learn about the key concepts you’ll be tackling while pursuing your online MBA degree by exploring the ABCs of business …
Recommended Websites
- American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest organization of statisticians.
- AnnualReports.com
AnnualReports.com (a division of IR Solutions) is the most complete and up-to-date listing of annual reports online. We are Americas largest annual report service.
- Data.census.gov
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it.
- Doing Business
The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
- Economic Census
The economic census profiles U.S. national and local economies every five years.
- EDGAR
All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free.
- eFinancialCareers
A free, easy-to-use resource providing career advice and information specific to the fields of finance, technology, sales, and marketing.
- FinancialWeb
FinWeb.com is your independent source for personal finance information, education and advice. There are thousands of articles written to help individuals, families and small businesses better manage their money.
- Nonprofit Explorer
A free tool for researching the finances of some 616,000 nonprofit organizations.
- OANDA Currency Converter
OANDA, a foreign exchange broker, provides a free online currency converter showing current exchange rates.
- U.S. Census Bureau
The homepage for the U.S. Census Bureau.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.
- USDA Economic Research Service
The Economic Research Service (ERS) from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has the mission
to inform and enhance public and private decision-making on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural development.
Read Websites Critically
Anyone can publish anything on the internet.
Use the Spider Method to ensure that your internet sources are appropriate for your research.
- Source
Who wrote the information? Is he qualified? If you can’t find an author, you shouldn’t trust the information until you verify it elsewhere.
- Purpose
Why does this website exist? Is it intended to sell a product or convince readers of something? Can you detect any bias?
- Information
Is the information current? Check for a publication date. If there isn’t one, you need to verify currency with another source.
- Domain
Be aware of the host site. Is the domain .edu or .gov? These domains sometimes have more authoritative or reliable information.
- Educational
Who is the intended audience? Is there adequate depth to the information? Are you sure it’s not a hoax site or satire?
- Reliability
Is the same information available on other websites? Triangulate with other sources to improve the chance of getting complete or accurate information.