By Richard Harroch | In: Getting Started, Starting a
Business Revised and updated
Sept. 6, 2020
There are thousands of websites offering news and advice about
the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship. As a busy business owner
with very little free time, how can you possibly keep up with everything you
need to know?
Here are 15 of my favorite business sites, covering topics such
as small business, investing, personal finance, M&A, online business courses,
venture capital, angel financing, tech companies, and more (the sites are
listed in alphabetical order). Give your business an edge by bookmarking these
helpful sites and reviewing them regularly.
This is one of the most comprehensive sites on the web for
entrepreneurs and growing businesses. AllBusiness.com features articles,
advice, forms, agreements, and entrepreneur profiles covering startup topics,
M&A, venture capital, angel financing, sales and marketing, careers, and
more. The site offers over 36,000 articles written by experts from many
different fields.
2. Bloomberg
Bloomberg provides up-to-the-minute U.S. and international news
on financial markets, commodities, currencies, company earnings, technology,
and more. The site has numerous articles, feature stories, and videos.
Business Insider is a business news site that certainly knows
how to grab the reader’s attention with its catchy headlines. The articles and
videos cover the markets, technology, companies, personal finance, venture capital,
investing, and startups as well as more commercial stories on culture and
entertainment. Unfortunately, many of the articles are behind a paywall and
require a subscription to access.
4. CNBC
CNBC is a high-quality comprehensive business news site. It
covers the stock market, bonds, cryptocurrencies, personal finance, and
in-depth reports on public companies. It also contains many videos from the
CNBC TV channel.
The Financial Times is a print and digital publisher based in
London covering the world economy and markets. The site has particularly strong
coverage of European companies and markets providing feature stories, analyses,
and data insights.
6. Forbes
Forbes has great and comprehensive content across every business
category: the stock market, entrepreneurship, personal finance, innovation,
M&A, technology, careers, and more. It contains many popular lists,
including “The World’s Billionaires” and the “Most Valuable Brands.” It has
numerous staff writers and over 2,000 contributing experts who generate a great
quantity of articles, which results in over 75 million visitors a month to the
site.
7. Inc.
Inc. is a popular site for entrepreneurs and startups, with
thousands of articles on starting and growing a business, angel financing,
sales and marketing, innovation, and more.
8. Inman.com
Inman.com has comprehensive coverage of everything related to
real estate. The site is particularly valuable for real estate brokers, agents,
and others in the real estate industry. It features profiles, updates on
selling techniques, Multiple Listing Service information, tips on promoting a
listing, tech reviews, mortgage information, and much more. Inman also holds
high-quality conferences and programs that are extremely popular.
9. MarketWatch
MarketWatch is a comprehensive news site covering stocks, bonds,
commodities, U.S. and international markets, personal investing, real estate,
and media. The site is known particularly for its continuous coverage of stock
market updates.
10. MSN Money
Microsoft’s MSN Money has comprehensive and current information
and advice on the markets, investing, personal finance, real estate, small
business, careers, taxes, and more. MSN does a great job curating quality
content from multiple publishers.
11. New York Times
The venerable New York Times has outstanding coverage of the
markets, international business, deals, the economy, entrepreneurship,
technology, and personal finance. This includes daily updates of developments
in the stock market and headline-making companies.
12. Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer site with high-quality content on
startups, venture capital, tech companies, IPOs, and much more.
13. TED Talks
The TED Talks website features a collection of short videos on
varied business and life topics. Inspiring videos include Red Ventures CEO Ric
Elias on “3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed,” Facebook COO Sheryl
Sandberg on “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders,” and Virgin founder Richard
Branson on “Life at 30,000 Feet.”
14. Udemy
Udemy is an online education site with over 150,000 courses,
including useful courses such as “Angel Financing: Find Investors and Funding
for Your Startup,” “How to Become a Programmer,” “Accounting & Financial
Statement Analyses,” and “Habits of High Achievers.”
This is the preeminent site for current business, investing, and
financial news. It includes extensive coverage of the stock, bond, and
commodity markets. If you’re in business, you should be reading the Wall Street
Journal daily.
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