Books

• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• The 4-Hour Work Week

Business Networks

• http://www.tie.org/
• http://www.tenonline.org/
• http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/cities/au/sydney/
• http://www.thehive.org.au/ – Entrepreneurs network in Melbourne and Brisbane

Tools

• http://www.trustdeed.com.au/ – register Australian companies
• Popular Internet domain domain name search tools eNom, Godaddy, MelbourneIT (for .au domains)
• Australian business name registry run by ASIC.  You can also try the ABNLookup for Australian Business Number checkes
• IPAustralia – Trademark registrations database
• Here’s a random word generator on the web, and here, and here, and here.  These may help with naming your business.
• Google is your friend if you need to find anything.
• WordPress.com, Livejournal, Blogger if you want to set up a free blog.
  
• Hostway, Dreamhost if you want to host a webpage (I’ve used both in the past – hostway is very professional but a bit more expensive.  Dreamhost is great and cheap!)
• Feedburner for publishing and tracking feeds from your blog

Collaboration

• Skype for voice and video calls over the web and instant messaging
• Google talk for voice and video calls over the web and instant messaging
• Google docs for online document creation, editing and collaboration.  Also, check out Google docs within Google Apps
• Acrobat.com for online document creation, editing and collaboration and screen sharing for holding presentations and meetings online
• Dropox for synchronising and sharing data across multiple computers and with people