There are many books on starting a small business. One great book is Start Your Own Business, 2nd Edition: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need. It can be bought on Amazon.com.
The internet offers many great resources for learning how to start a business in your desired state. If it's a small business you wish to start, a great place to start is the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov). You can also visit your local bookstore for a variety of books full of information on the steps to take to ensure starting a business properly. Your local library will offer good resources as well.
There are many good books on Business Bookkeeping on Amazon. Some titles include Start and Run a Bookkeeping Business, and Keeping the Books. QuickBooks for Dummies and many other books are also available on bookkeeping.
The Small Business Administration website seems to be like a good start. The website helps create a small business plan and gives tips on where to start off.
A good place to start would be your local Small Business Adminstration Office.
There are probably hundreds, even thousands of books that can help you and offer good advice about small businesses. There is a book entitled "Training for small business" which is written by John Dawkins. That book may be very useful.
To start your own window washing business, first type up a good business plan, then contact the Small Business Administration about obtaining a business loan.
There are not alot of free e-books on small business accounting on line but you can get some good software at a good price that could fit into your budget. Try staples. They have a fair selection and inexpensive pricing.
Any of the Seth Godin books are a good place to start. I particularly recommend "Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas". If you are looking for some good web related ideas try reading World Wide Wave by David Meerman Scott.
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The "Everything Home Based Business Book" is good place to start. First decide what type of business fits in with your lifestyle. Make it something that interests you.
Entrepeneur.com is a good place to start, although this is such a general question that you should try to narrow down the type of small business that interersts you.
There are many good international business management books available. Some of these books include "The Ten Must-Read Books on International Business" and "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge".