Four New Business E-Resources Available

Four significant online resources with a Business focus have recently been added to the online collection of the USF Libraries. For each title, access is now online only. Funding for these resources comes in part from USF Sarasota-Manatee.

The International Directory of Company Histories provides detailed information on the development of any of the world’s 4,550 largest and most influential companies.

Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAIC codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, principal divisions, principal operating units, principle competitors and other significant milestones – complete with statistics, dates and names of key players. Vols. 1-6 are organized alphabetically by major industries; Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes are arranged alphabetically by company name within each volume. Each volume includes a cumulative index to companies and personal names. Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes include a cumulative index to industries. Starting with Volume 37 a geographical index to companies sorted by country of head office. USF purchased the online volumes from v.1- v.58 and then v. 105 to the present.

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Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies

This resource provides current company and industry profiles for over 100,000 U.S. companies, 90 percent of which are private. The database can be searched by company name, ticker symbol, zip code, city or state, SIC or NAICS codes, assets, employee count, officers, and other variables. Results can be sorted by financial data, geography, employees, etc. Ward’s Business Directory is part of the Gale Directory Library. It may be searched as a single source or in a cross-search with other directories.

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Market Share Reporter

Part of Gale’s Directory Library collection, the publication provides comparative business statistics (arranged by 4-digit SIC code) for companies, products and services. With over 3,600 individual entries, queries can be built using descriptors such as: NAICS code, subject heading, and title. All entries also include source information.

Search results can be displayed by title, publication date, and geography. Saved searches can be downloaded in HTML format.

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SRDS Online provides access to electronic versions of the following SRDS print publications:

Business Media Advertising: Provides comprehensive, multi-platform planning information on domestic and healthcare trade media. Media are classified into more than 190 markets, with more than 30,000 updates every year.

Consumer Media Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on U.S. and international consumer magazines. This database contains standardized ad rates, dates, contact information, and links to online media kits, Web sites, and audit statements that provide additional facts on readership information and positioning.

Direct Marketing List Source: This source provides an index and search fuctions that focus on e-mail lists. Using DMLS, researchers can locate consumer and business-to-business e-mail lists in 212 market classifications. Information covered includes complete list rental information, sources, selects, costs and other information useful for direct marketing campaigns.

Newspaper Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on daily ethnic, college, and international newspapers and newspaper-distributed magazines and newspaper groups. This database contains standardized ad rates, dates, contact information, and links to online media kits and Web sites that provide additional facts on readership information and positioning.

Radio Advertising Source: Provides complete planning information on AM/FM commercial radio stations in the U.S. This database contains format detail, demographics, and contact information.

TV & Cable Source: Provides information on broadcast, cable, syndicated, and alternative television advertising opportunities in the U.S. Over 3,400 listings identify commercial and noncommercial stations, broadcast networks, multiple station owners, cable systems, interconnects, cable networks, MSOs, syndicators, and sales reps. A separate section covers Latin American ad outlets.

Local Market Audience has a market profile section that characterizes demographic and lifestyle proclivities of Designated Market Areas (DMA) and counties; a lifestyle analyst section that cross tabulates interests and behaviors, ranking them within DMAs; and demographic reports that illuminate interests and behaviors with reference to age, income, marital status and life stages.

For access to these databases and other library resources visit http://www.lib.usf.edu. Click on Databases by Title/Subject to begin.

Our graduates’ dinner will be held at Acropolis on Friday, May 7th at 6:30PM.

The dinner will be followed by our Fair-well Graduates Event at 8PM.

You are invited to an end of the semester event in honor of our graduating entrepreneurs. Come out and congratulate your peers and friends.

When: Friday, May 7th, 2010 from 6:30PM – 10PM

Where:
Dinner at Acropolis on Bruce B Downs Blvd. followed by a gathering a private home.

Please contact Adrian Johnson for details.

We really enjoyed our time as Dr. Kevan Main, Director of Mote’s Center for Aquaculture R&D, gave us a tour of their facilities.  It was a wonderful and unique opportunity to get an insider’s tour at Mote Marine Labs and its MAP facilities. In mid 2009, USF College of Marine Science and Mote Marine Labs announced a landmark affiliation agreement that will allow two of the state’s leading research institutions to join forces in new science ventures, provide expanded learning programs and create economic development opportunities for the region and state.

Our students enjoyed an afternoon learning about the latest in aquaculture research of sturgeon fisheries. The MAP lab looks to build innovations in filtering systems, especially for fish farms, and other types of marine food source. The MAP facility raises sturgeon fishes and then harvest them at various levels of its life cycles.

This new affiliation opens up more opportunities to learn of potential ventures in aquaculture fields that may lead to opportunities for commercialization.

And that’s where our program comes into play.

Another event tour will be planned for the summer of the main Mote Marine Lab facility.

We hope to make this a regular club event as USF and Mote Marine Labs look to build a working relationship and take innovation to commercialization.

BNFE is a student organization that grew out of the Entrepreneurship master’s program at USF’s College of Business. It club is directly affiliated with Center for Entrepreneurship here at the University of South Florida.

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The heart of eWomenNetwork is the eWomenNetwork Foundation, a 501(c)(3) created soon after the start of eWomenNetwork, Inc. Through this non-profit organization, we are able to build upon the philosophy of our company “It takes teamwork to make the dream work” and extend its reach to those who need it most.

SEEC 2010

April 15th-18th, 2010

Southeastern Entrepreneurship Conference (SEECtampa.org) is just a few days away.

Seats are limited.  Cost is $35. Just mention you are a USF student or a BNFE member.

Be sure to register soon!

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SEEC 2010 Video

Location:

USF Alumni Center, Traditions Hall on January 29th, 2010.

The USF College of Business Administration and BNFE’s 2010 Celebration of Entrepreneurship Luncheon was a huge success. Over 100 attendees, such as area business leaders, USF officials, and our graduate students, participated in the inaugural event. The luncheon hailed the Entrepreneurship master’s program along with the introduction of our new scholarship endowment.

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Certainly, one of the event highlights included the surprise announcement of naming the scholarship after Dr. Michael Fountain.

Later in the spring term, Dr. Fountain was also featured in the Gulf Coast Business Review discussing the Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies program at USF.

Excerpt from the article:

Michael Fountain’s vision for USF’s entrepreneurship program is built on his own experiences.

That vision focuses on the synthesis of business skill, biomedical
research and engineering capability into a successful business
operation.

Fountain’s research experience has taken him from Princeton, N.J. to
Silicon Valley to Philadelphia, and has included the formation of seven
companies, three of which have gone public.

Here in Tampa Bay, Fountain’s work has helped Dermazone Solutions —
a company featured in a December 2009 issue of the Review — bring its
advanced skin care products to market.

Bringing the fruits of researchers’ labor to market drives USF’s
entrepreneurship program. It’s a unique opportunity for biochemists and
pharmaceutical researchers with an entrepreneurial itch.

It’s a focus that has helped individuals like Kevin Sill, chief
scientific officer at Intezyne, make their own waves in the business
world instead of signing on with a pharmaceutical giant.

Take the latest addition to the program’s curriculum, for example, a
class called product development. Inside, students work with existing
companies to design and test innovative concepts that fit real-world
needs.

Other classes take on challenges like patents and federal compliance
— think FDA approval for a drug. They’re concepts that you wouldn’t
learn in either a chemistry lab or an MBA setting.

Put it all together and you get a unique educational opportunity that Fountain calls “a truly green field to plow.”

(To read more, click on link).

Let’s get to it!  There are so many events planned for this 2010 Spring term.  We encourage our students to roll up their sleeves and jump into our next event.  We look to offer three events per month: an learning activity, a guest speaker or conference, and a social event.  Be sure to check out the events page for more details.

One of our Fellow Entrepreneurship Alumni
Jon Solomon is launching his new product for eWinWin, offering discounted gift certificates
and deals for your favorite Tampa area restaurants and activities. Deals include $10
Mr. Dunderbaks gift certificate for $5, $10 Lennys Sub Gift Certificate for $4,
discounted Tampa Bay Rays and Lightning tickets, and many more. Help support a fellow entrepreneur by signing up at eWinWin and pass it on to your friends.  When you sign-up, you’ll get exclusive access to purchase gift cards for less than half of their face value, just in time for the holidays.  It really is a win-win.