This link is for the Small Business Owner's Toolkit.
http://www.toolkit.cch.com/botoc.asp
Check out your local community college for seminars and classes on entrepreneurship. Stop in and talk to some of the business owners in towns around you. Many will be more than willing to chat about their trials and tribulations. (Be very wary of talking to anyone you will be directly competing with, like someone in the neighborhood where you will be opening your business. The owners might get really defensive and you don't want to start your venture out on the wrong foot.)