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Some of the top colleges and universities in the world provide free business administration courses online. Here is a list of the best sources.

Content: Article | Source: DegreeDirectory | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The idea behind Squeezed Books is to provide open access to business book summaries, and a collaborative environment where everyone can read summaries, write new ones, and talk about the books in question.

Content: Online Resource | Author: David Welton | Source: DedaSys | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

This excel template helps prospective business owners determine the best legal structure for their new business. Identifying the appropriate business structure can help owners gain tax and legal protection benefits for their business.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Microsoft | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

After posting “Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup” about the two years of actual costs of Redfin, many people asked for a generic version of the financial model that Redfin used to project costs. Here it is.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

Spreadsheet optimization is a great way to improve your decision making on a practical basis without having to use difficult or expensive software. Here we use the example of selecting a capital project to show how an optimization model built in Excel can arrive at the best decision using the Solver tool. This tutorial spreadsheet includes an annotated working model, as well as a customizable … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: BNET | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

Structured performance reviews allow managers to help employees recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and to provide direction in improving skills and performance. This evaluation form is designed to make it easier for managers to deliver the constructive feedback employees need. It provides a framework for developing an evaluation system, built on an assessment of five categories of performance: communication, interaction, productivity, quality concerns, and job … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: BNET | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

The National Venture Capital Association offers a set of model legal documents for venture capital investments put together by a group of leading venture capital attorneys. The model venture capital financing documents consist of:
* Term Sheet
* Stock Purchase Agreement
* Certificate of Incorporation
* Investor Rights Agreement
* Voting Agreement
* Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement
* Management Rights Letter
* … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Venture Capital

FormNet® is designed to save you the time and expense of creating business documents from scratch. You can download and customize various business forms according to your needs, and immediately put them to work in your business–all for free.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Entrepreneur.com | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Evidence suggests that small firms benefit from business planning as new ventures are assessed and started. Yet relatively few make use of business planning, or go about such planning in an inconsistent way that invites errors and omissions. This paper presents a systemized web-based venture planning model that provides opportunities for entrepreneurs to collect the appropriate information and assess their ventures. This model is based … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Cole Ehmke, Michael Boehlje | Source: Purdue University | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Whether you spent all day in Excel spreadsheets or you only launch the program once a month, there’s always more to know about the software. These 50 tips cover these five topics:
* Customizing your workspace
* Editing, layout, and printing
* Entering and working with data
* Working with formulas, functions and code
* Mastering Web tricks

Learn how to do everything from changing default … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: BNET | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

The Marketing Plan is a highly detailed, heavily researched and, hopefully, well written report that many inside and possibly outside the organization will evaluate. It is an essential document for both large corporate marketing departments and for startup companies. Essentially the Marketing Plan:
* forces the marketing personnel to look internally in order to fully understand the results of past marketing decisions.
* forces … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: KnowThis.com | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

Matt Evans has gathered a nice collection of free excel files to download from various sources across the web.

Editor’s Note: thanks to financeprofessor.com (via MoneyScience) for pointing out this site…

Content: Online Resource | Author: Matt H. Evans | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

After nearly 18 months of work by dozens of CIOs, the IT Value Matrix illustrates the principles and practices essential to creating, identifying and communicating IT’s value to the enterprise. One reader’s praise: “In my daily job which is communicating what technology does for our business partners, our wins, project release status information and creating presentations for executives that mean something to our business partners, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Richard Pastore | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business

Want to improve your management skills? Tap into the mother lode of coaching checklists and assessment tools at this site, where you will find more than 500 ways to organize and improve in the areas of goal planning, strategy, life focus, action plans, time management, business organization and more. You must become a member of sister site Coachville.com in order to access the forms, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Coachville | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

You can speed up the process of having Google index your site – and help Google uncover your hidden, database-generated pages – by submitting a sitemap of your site to Google directly in the “appropriate file format”. You can figure this all out yourself, or you can take advantage of complimentary online tools that will generate the file for you in a Google-approved format. We … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: XML Sitemaps | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business

This library of business plans includes entries in the Moot Corp® Competition at the University of Texas. Each business plan was a winner or finalist in the competition. The judges (venture capitalists) selected these plans as representing the best in business strategy and presentation.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Center for Business Planning | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

By incorporating several of the best no-cost keyword suggestion tools into one interface, NicheBOT makes it very easy to explore and discover new, untapped keywords and topics that you can use to drive more traffic to your website. Simply enter a keyword or phrase, such as “internet marketing”, and choose your weapon.

First, get the top 15 related, active keywords from Wordtracker. Then explore the thesaurus … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: NicheBOT | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

It started decades ago as flashes of insight scribbled on loose scraps of paper. Then it morphed into a PowerPoint presentation that distilled years of business wisdom into a handful of easy-to-remember aphorisms. Last year it became a 76-page spiral-bound booklet clad in a plain gray cover. Eventually, Warren Buffett received a copy — and liked it so much that he asked for dozens more … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Bill Swanson | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

UrlTrends provides a visual “Trend Report” on the SEO rankings of your website, and, if you opt for no-cost registration, it will track your rankings over time and enable you to compare them to the rankings of several competitors. With registration, you will be notified by RSS or email whenever there is a search engine ranking change to any of your tracked URLs.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Joel Strellner | Source: urltrends | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales