Funding

• Entrepreneur Magazine - Financing Your Business This site provides a variety of resources specifically tailored to meet the funding needs of small business owners. It utilizes the resources of Commercial Finance Online, America's Business Funding Directory, MoneySearch. com and Entrepreneur Magazine's Raising Money column, and provides tips for raising money.
• Finding Money From American Express Small Business Services. Features articles and resources on funding, managing debt, and more.
• Securities and Exchange Commission The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect investors in securities markets that operate fairly and to ensure that investors have access to disclosure of all material information concerning publicly traded securities.
• Start Me Up: Financing Your Small Business From Quicken. com. This site lists sources of traditional and alternative financing available to small business owners, ways to find an appropriate lender, and provides information about how lenders evaluate loan applications.
• U. S. Small Business Administration Provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.

Small Business Loans

• Community Development Block Grant From the Montana Department of Commerce. Distributes funds to communities for loans to businesses to stimulate economic development activity that creates or retains jobs primarily for individuals from low and moderate income families.
• Financing Your Business From the Small Business Administration (SBA). Features loan forms, lending studies, loan statistics and more.

Business Valuation

• Business Valuation FAQs From the American Society of Appraisers.