Use these resources to help you estimate costs for your own business.
Business Plans Handbook by Use our guide on Advertising Rates to estimate the cost of advertise via different channels.
Use these websites to search retail listings for commercial space available for lease to get a sense of rent costs for your desired location.
Use the Suppliers tab of the Company Information guide to identify suppliers or manufacturers. However, many do not publicly list their prices, so you can also use Amazon to help estimate these costs.
The cost of developing an app varies greatly depending on several factors including the type of app, the functionality, and who is doing the developing. Use these guides to help estimate your costs.
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The Library has many books about securing investments for a new business. Some of these are listed below. To see more books on this topic, try these subject searches:
The Business Start Up Guide by 
Investment Crowdfunding by 
Entrepreneurial Finance by 
Financing Startups: Understanding Risks, Funding Sources, and the Impact of Emerging Technologies by 
