The Web is a bottomless mine of resources. Where once entrepreneurs had to search hard for a good vein of business information, today’s problem is having the time to haul out the treasures. Here are samples of the gold you’ll find.

• Need advanced business knowledge, but don’t have time to study for an MBA? Check out www.bestbusinessinfo.com. This site rides to the rescue with what it calls a “mini-MBA self-study program” for small-business owners. The site has 1,600 pages of practical info.

• Go to www.uschamber.com, then click first on the “business resources” button, then the “small-business button” for more than 4,000 pages of information on building, running and growing your business.

• Want to do your own thing, but get group rates? Then consider joining the National Association for the Self-Employed, www.nase.org. The NASE has resources to help small businesses get ahead, provides benefits such as endorsed health insurance, and advocates in Washington on behalf of small-business interests.

• The federal government issues more than 10 million contracts a year to small-business people. If you want one of them, learn the nitty-gritty details in the “winning government contracts” section of the CCH small-business site, www.toolkit.cch.com. The site has plenty of other good information on starting, operating and expanding a small business.

• How do you manage technology effectively? How can you keep your best people? How do you market your business online? Learn the answers at www.entreworld.org, which bills itself as the “entrepreneur’s search engine.”

• No point in reinventing the wheel. If you want templates for your marketing plan or basic legal forms and contracts, you’ll find them at www.morebusiness.com.