Who can tell me what kind of business software I really need? Where can I find cold-calling scripts? How can I ask better interview questions?

Notoriously overreaching and under-resourced, entrepreneurs are continually navigating unknown territories and encountering new problems. The best business owners are perpetual students, always learning — although there are no textbooks to tell them what to do next.

Still, the Web overflows with robust resources for entrepreneurs looking to source products, hire smarter or sell more. In fact, there’s way too much out there, much of it mediocre or more geared to selling than informing.

The following is a guide to the online business resources every entrepreneur should know. The catch is it’s a two-part, interactive column. I’m hoping if I write the first 10, you’ll contribute to next week’s 10 by emailing me your favourite web resources.

These 10 essential online resources can help you save time, money and aggravation:

  1. Founded in 2012 by New Brunswick entrepreneur Dan Martell, Clarity.fm connects entrepreneurs with problems and accomplished business leaders. For a fee (starting at $1 per minute, but sometimes $10 a minute or more), you can talk by phone with just about anyone: Dan Martell, Brad Feld, Gerry Pond or Mark Cuban, or an app developer, media planner, venture capitalist, etiquette specialist, or department-store buyer.

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