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GE 393 RLP - Business Plan Workshop for Technology Entrepreneurs

 

Sources of Additional Information

Premier Entrepreneur Programs

http://www.peplink.com/resource/main.htm, Courtney & Mack's site has great links

Other Entrepreneurial Sites

http://entreworld.org
http://ideacafe.com
http://www.smallbiz.suny.edu
www.lowe.org, The Entrepreneurial Edge
http://www.entrepreneur-america.com/, Coaching for a piece of the business. Nice free tutorials.
http://tenonline.org/, The Entrepreneur's Network
http://www.benlore.com/, The Entrepreneur's Mind: tales of entrepreneurship

Business Plan Competitions

http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/tec/bpc, Cozad Business Plan Competition
http://50k.mit.edu/about/global-bplan.html, MIT Links to BPlan Competitions 
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,15472,00.html, The Standard list of 24 BPCs 

Search Engines

www.google.com, Great general search engine
www.business.com, Business search engine

Legal information for business

http://smallbiz.findlaw.com
http://www.nolo.com
http://www.corporate.com
http://www.redlinelaw.com, Red Line Law, lawyers who spoke in class

IP Information

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ Copyright info
www.uspto.gov US Patent & Trademark Office
www.delphion.com Private for-free search

Corporate Information

http://hoovers.com
http://www.freeedgar.com
http://ceoexpress.com
http://www.looksmart.com
http://www.tfsd.com
http://mckinseyquarterly.com
http://www.forrester.com
http://www.ey.com
www.business.com
www.businesslead.com
http://www.thebiz.co.uk/elsevsci.htm
www.bloomberg.com

Business Plans

www.bplans.com
www.palo-alto.com

Other Business Magazines (See www.peplink.com for more)

www.business2.com
www.inc.com
www.successmagazine.com
www.hocmag.net, Home Office Computing
http://www.cahners.com/, Major publisher of trade magazines
www.entrepreneur.com

Business Financing

www.garage.com, Garage Technology Ventures site has nice links & resources
www.mavf.com, Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds has nice resource section

Marketing Information

www.marketingtools.com, American Demographics Magazine
www.princeton.edu/~abelson/, Princeton University Survey Research Center
www.scn.org/civic/score-online/, E-mail marketing counseling one-on-one
http://www.listbazaar.com/, Advertising and marketing lists

Government Business Information

www.sba.gov, Small Business Administration
www.irs.gov, The dreaded Internal Revenue Service
www.gsa.gov/fdac/, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
www.census.gov, The Census Bureau
www.census.gov/statab/www/, Statistical Abstract of the United States
www.business.gov, Business regulation, procurement, finance, trade, & labor
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/, Copyright info
www.uspto.gov, US Patent & Trademark Office
www.stat-usa.gov, One-stop business, economic data (fee-based)

Sites of Illinois/Local Interest

www.extension.uiuc.edu, UI Extension
http://www.commerce.state.il.us/, Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
http://www.sb2000.com/h-sbdc-il.html, Illinois Small Business Development Center Network
http://techcommunity.org, Champaign organization devoted to promoting tech-oriented biz
http://www.mba.uiuc.edu/business/osbi/, Consulting by UIUC MBA students
http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/, Information on licensing UIUC technologies

Illinois/Midwest Venture Capitalists

www.archventure.com, ARCH Venture Partners
www.foxfund.com, Cardinal-Fox Capital, L.L.C.
www.cuventure.com, Champaign-Urbana Ventures (managed by foxfund)
www.cidequity.com, CID Equity Partners
www.frontenac.com, Frontenac Company
www.gcpfunds.com, Gryffindor Capital Partners L.L.C.
info@wcstrategies.com, Hopewell Ventures
www.illinoispartners.com, Illinois Partners (manages Illinois Advanced Technology Fund)
www.kbpartners.com, KB Partners, LLC
www.kettlevc.com, Kettle Partners
www.openprairie.com, Open Prairie Ventures
www.polestarvc.com, Polestar Capital Partners, L.P.
www.sbpartners.com, SB Partners, L.P.
www.sterlingcap.com, Sterling Ventures Partners
www.idfa.com, Illinois Development Finance Authority
www.wmblair.com, William Blair Capital Partners
www.newworldvc.com, William Blair New World Ventures
www.piperrudnick.com, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe