Start-up Business Links
Web Businesses, Software, and High-Tech Company Links
Commercial Real Estate Links
General Business Links

For Start-up Businesses:

• http://www.state.ma.us/mobd/mobdhome.htm
  Mass. On-Line Business Assistance Guide contains the state’s Guide for Starting a Business here, including legal, regulatory, and tax matters.
• http://www.liraz.com/small-business/starting.htm
  This site has basic information for anyone starting a business about an entrepreneur’s personality traits, business plan, marketing plan.  CD with in-depth advice available currently for $49.
•  http://www.sb2000.com/b-plans.html
  Gives local listing of the PBS series Small Business 2000 and link to Howard University’s excellent template for a business plan.
• http://www.score.org
  SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, provides free business counseling and links to the U.S. Small Business Administration with its many publications.

• http://www.uspto.gov/
  This U.S. patent office site has available info. about fees, downloadable forms, and basic legal requirement for patents and trademarks, etc.
• http://www.intelproplaw.com/
  The intellectual property site provides information about this area of the law, including patent, trademark and copyright and a comprehensive list of links and forums.  
• http://www.businessnation.com/
  Contains info. of interest to all businesses, and has a good section regarding creating a web site: Planning, Authoring, Registration, Promotion, & Maintenance.
• http://cyber.findlaw.com/
  This site contains useful links to specific areas of cyberspace law.
•  http://www.submitcorner.com/Guide/SE/
  Analyzes search engines and how to best promote your site through them.

For Commercial Real Estate Issues:

• http://www.salemdeeds.com/
  This site by the Essex Co. Registry of Deeds gives filing fees, a searchable index to find and download recorded real estate document,  links to other registries with web pages, FAQs and other links.
  

For All Business:

• http://www.state.ma.us/ --business section
  This site lists various information of interest to persons doing business in the Commonwealth.
• http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/legis/legis.htm
  Provides word search by phrases for Mass .General Laws, Bills.
  Chapter and section search with Table of Contents, also available, is often more productive if you know the Chapter Num.
• http://www.versuslaw.com/
  This online database, searchable by word or phrase, of cases from the state courts of all fifty states and the federal Circuit Courts and Supreme Court is an inexpensive resource for those wanting to follow legal developments in a certain area.
• http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
  Cornell U. provides this free searchable database of all Federal Regs.
  From its home page, one may find a searchable index of various areas of the law and links to the law of the various States and Federal cases.