Entrepreneurship Learning Resources
Links (71)
- 60 Days to Launch: The Anatomy of an Internet Startup

- AllBusiness.com Startup Kit

- Altgate

- Angelsoft

- Art of the Start

- Business Incubation and Internet Accelerators: A Living Dissertation

- Business Plan Archive

- Business Structure Selector

- BusinessFinance.com

- BusinessTown

- CompStudy.com

- Creating a Fundable Business Plan

- Development Report Card for the States (DRC)

- Do You Have What it Takes To Start a Dot-Com?

- e-magnify.com

- Edward Lowe Foundation - Entrepreneurial Edge

- entreworld.org - A World of Resources for Entrepreneurs

- eStartupHelp.com

- Feld Thoughts: Posts on Letters of Intent

- Feld Thoughts: Posts on Term Sheets

- Financing Your Business

- FormNet

- From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America's Largest Corporations (.pdf)

- Get Venture by Mark Peter Davis

- Guru.com

- HBS Elevator Pitch Builder

- Herringtown

- High Growth Companies - NCOE Report (.pdf)

- Inc.com's Guide to Finding the Perfect Business Partner

- Inc.com's Guide to Running a One-Person Business

- LearnVC

- MiniPlan

- Model Cap Tables With VCHub

- My Own Business - A Free Internet Course On How To Start A Business

- Nameboy.com

- National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF)

- National Commission on Entrepreneurship

- Netpreneur Exchange Funding & Finance

- NVST Private Equity InfoBase

- Private Company Financings Update

- Red Herring Magazine

- Sample Business Plans

- SCORE

- Search Funds

- Series Seed Documents

- Small Business 2000

- Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse

- Start-Up Kits

- startup.wsj.com

- Startups.com

- StartUpStreet.com

- StartupUniversity.com

- StartupZone.com

- State of the Startup 2000: Complete Study Findings

- Stock Options and Related Plans

- Tech's Top Venture Investors (2001)

- TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents

- The Business Plan - Road Map to Success

- The Entrepreneur Network

- The Entrepreneurs' Help Page

- TheStartUp411

- TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)

- U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)

- Understanding Term Sheets

- VC Experts

- Venture Capital 101

- Venture One

- VentureWiki

- vFinance.com

- WSGR Term Sheet Generator

- Zero Million Marketing Resource Center

Articles (236)
- F|R Crib Sheet: The Term Sheet Glossary

- Isolating Causality: Bad Market or Bad Company

- 10 Pragmatic Steps To Raising Venture Capital

- 15 mistakes young entrepreneurs make, but don't have to

- 15 Steps to a Start-up Investors Will Buy

- 25 Excellent Social Media Sites for Entrepreneurs

- 4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint

- 5 Essential Characteristics Of The Entrepreneurial Mind

- 6 Essential Plans Every Business Needs

- 7 Strategies For Running Your Business While Pursuing Your Passions

- A 10-Year Stretch: Strategies for Early Growth

- A Chorus of Angels

- A Fundraising Survival Guide

- A Methodology and Model for Assessing Entrepreneurial Ventures

- A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed Company Directors

- A VC’s Advice On How To Pitch VCs

- According to Form: Choosing the Right Business Entity

- After the Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Influence The Success Or Failure Of Technology Companies

- Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data

- An Insider's Guide to Incubators

- An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing

- Anatomy of a start-up: The elusive art of the deal

- Anatomy of a Term Sheet (PDF)

- Angel Financing

- Angels With Angles

- Approach incubators with caution

- Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

- Are You Marked for Greatness?

- Bargaining Power - Effective Venture Capital Contracts Come in Many Forms

- Beware of fishing expeditions

- Beyond the Big Idea: Performance Predictors in Entrepreneurial Firms

- Biased Expectations: Can Accounting Tools Lead to, Rather than Prevent, Executive Mistakes?

- Birth of New Firms: Knowledge is Key

- Brave New World: Eight Steps to a Winning Startup

- Built to Flip

- Challenges in Building World Class Technology Companies

- Clusters of Entrepreneurship

- Company Builder

- Compensation for Board Members

- Considerations for Founders: Issues in Structuring Relationships Among Members of the Founder Team

- Creating the Lean Startup

- Dear John

- Determining the Feasibility of Your Business Idea

- Diaries of a Startup

- Diary of a Start-Up

- Do 58% of VCs Think Angel Involvement Is Unattractive - Nope!

- Do You Need to Switch Your Pitch

- Dry Spell: A Startup Survival Guide

- Embracing Innovation: Entrepreneurship and American Economic Growth

- Employee Options and Grant Size

- Employee Stock Options: Their Use and Policy Implications

- Entrepreneurial Culture Clash

- Entrepreneurial Thinking: highlights on instilling the culture and key processess

- Entrepreneurs join the VC team

- Escape From Corporate America

- Expectations and the First Chicago Method

- Fatal Mistakes To Avoid When Writing A Business Plan...

- Finance Fridays: Getting Started – Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment

- Finding the Perfect Pitch

- Fish or Cut Bait: How green is the Valley?

- For the MIT 100K Participants: Executive Summaries

- Founders Get A Cure For The IPO Blues

- Four Unusual Questions You Should Ask in Raising Venture Money

- Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

- From Buyouts To Small Biz

- Getting A Jump Start(up)

- Getting Access to the Old Boys’ Club (how to approach a VC)

- Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital

- Hatching Success

- He Knows How to Be Diligent About Due Diligence

- Helping nonprofits do business

- How a Start-up Evolves

- How Equity Dilution Works

- How Great Entrepreneurs Think

- How Private Equity Investors Value Entrepreneurial Ventures

- How to Buy a Business

- How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast

- How to Create an Enchanting Pitch

- How to Find the Right VC for Your Company

- How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist

- How to Get Your Sheet Together

- How to name a startup

- How to Read a Term Sheet

- How to Speed Up Your Startup

- How to Win Big and Get Ahead Fast

- How To Write A Business Plan

- How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry

- In Global Entrepreneurship, One Small Initiative Can Make One Huge Difference

- In VC deals, Price Doesn't Matter - But The "Promote" Does

- Infosys' Murthy: Sharing a "Simple Yet Powerful Vision"

- Innovation and the Economics of Good Enough

- Inside an Internet IPO

- Inventing Success

- Inventive Colossus: Thomas Edison And Entrepreneurial Leadership

- Is Small Business the Future of America?

- Is the Social Entrepreneur a New Type of Leader?

- John Doerr's Startup Manual

- Joining Forces: Role of Alliances in Entrepreneurial Success

- Key Steps Before Talking to Venture Capitalists

- KLM Capital Group's Overview of VC's

- Lead like the Best Entrepreneurs: Learn how they Innovate, Grow and Profit

- Lessons of a failed incubator

- Let the Hard Times Roll!

- Let's Do Launch

- Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

- Looking for a Company to Run? Search Funds Could Be the Answer

- Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck

- Mainstreaming Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership at Every Level of Organizations , Part 2

- Mainstreaming Entrepreneurship: Leadership at Every Level, Part 1

- Making the Perfect Pitch to VCs

- Mapping the Entrepreneurial Psyche

- Mastering Unforeseeable Uncertainty in Startup Companies: an Empirical Study

- MBA Mondays

- Measuring Entrepreneurship: A Digest of Indicators, 2009 Edition

- Mercenaries vs. Missionaries: John Doerr Sees Two Kinds of Internet Entrepreneurs

- Mind the Perils of Organizational Growth

- Money maketh the Internet firm: how funding impacts culture

- Multiples vs IRR

- Must we all be entrepreneurs now?

- No Exit

- Nondestructive Creation

- Offshore Drilling

- Paying Entrepreneurs to Find the Right Business

- Perfecting Your Pitch

- Perfecting Your Pitch, Part One: Assume Short Buildings

- Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship

- Picking winners

- Positioning and pitch decks for startups

- Pricing and Positioning for Entrepreneurial Marketers

- Profit Dynamics Venture Capital Survey

- Putting Founders First

- Red Herring's Top 10 Entrepreneurs

- Rediscovering Europe's Entrepreneurial Spirit

- Rethinking the Role of the Entrepreneurial Leader

- Rule No. 1: Make Meaning

- Search Fund Primer

- Seat of the Pants

- Second System Syndrome

- Secrets of a $110 Million Man

- Selected Papers on Entrepreneurship

- Selected Papers on Entrepreneurship

- Seven Steps to Heaven

- Should an entrepreneur have an MBA?

- Should I Exercise my Options?

- Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test

- Small Dot-Coms Thrive While Industry Giants Melt Down

- Social Capitalists

- Social Entrepreneurship: Three Successful Business Models

- Soul Proprietor

- Starting Up on a Shoestring

- Startup 101: ReadWriteStart's Serialized "How to Build a Startup" Book

- Startup Stock Options

- Startups in 13 Sentences

- Startups Take the Plunge

- Startups: Give Us Your Best One-Sentence Pitch

- Student Power, Part 1

- Styles of Thinking Impact on Financial Performance

- Subchapter S: Some Myths, Realities and Practical Considerations

- Take Stock When Using Stock In Trade Part 2: Stock and Options

- Taking The Leap

- Taking the Trouble to Research Your Market

- Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial 'Evangelist' Guy Kawasaki

- Ten Questions with Fred Greguras of Fenwick and West

- The 'One Page' Term Sheet for Angel Investors

- The 10 Biggest Booby Traps of Term Sheets

- The Accidental Business Coach

- The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur

- The Art of Bootstrapping

- The Author's Dilemma - Why Most Business Books Suck

- The Best Business Plan on the Planet

- The Bootstrapper's Bible

- The Day the IPO Died

- The Dot-Com Factories

- The Entrepreneurial Process: What To Do Once You Have A Good Idea

- The four known high-tech startup failure modes

- The Funded Publishes Ideal First Round Term Sheet

- The Hypomanic American

- The Impact of Bankruptcy Laws on Startups

- The Impostor Syndrome

- The Innovation Incubator: Technology Transfer at Stanford University

- The innovator's DNA

- The Inquisition of the Entrepreneur

- The Most Dangerous Hire

- The Myth About Creation Myths

- The Pmarca Guide to Startups

- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives

- The Private-Capital Survival Guide

- The Profit-Minded Professor

- The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents

- The Psychology of Success

- The Role of Pricing Strategy in Start-up Success

- The Sales Learning Curve: Optimizing the Path to Positive Cash Flow

- The Smart VC: Don't get jerked around

- The Smart VC: Down But Not Out

- The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook

- The ten commandments

- The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists

- The TR University Research Scorecard

- The Truth About Venture Capitalists

- The Ultimate How-To Guide

- The Young Entrepreneur's Survival Kit

- Thoughts on Taking Venture Money

- Time to Money

- Tips for the first VC Meeting

- Too Many Chiefs or Too Many Indians

- Top Ten Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

- Towards a single European entrepreneurial space

- True Finance

- Universities: Your New Best Friend

- Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

- Valuation: The Elusive Bulls-eye

- VC P.S.: The smart entrepreneur

- Venture Capital -- An Overview of the Basic Issues and Challenges for Entrepreneurs

- Wanted: A Company to Call Their Own

- What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?

- What Does It Take to Be an Entrepreneur?

- What Makes a Good Entrepreneurial Leader? Ask Middle Managers

- What Makes an Entrepreneur

- What Makes an Entrepreneur?

- What should I send investors? Part 2: Deck

- What's The Best Structure For A Pre-VC Investment?

- When (Organizational) Change Hurts: Startups Need to "Think Employees" from the Get-Go

- When Are 350 Million Shares No Different Than 35 Million?

- Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

- Who Can You Trust?

- Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude over Aptitude)

- Why MBAs Fail at Entrepreneurship

- Why Size Matters

- Why the Founder Isn't Always the Best CEO

- Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0

- Winners Make Their Own Good Luck

- Writing a Compelling Executive Summary

- Writing the Perfect Business Proposal: A Simple Plan

- You Don't Get Shit You Don't Ask For

- You Don't Have to Ditch the Day Job

- You, Inc.

Cases (13)
- CargoExchange.Net Pte Ltd

- Extending the "easy" Business Model: What Should easyGroup Do Next?

- Gary Heavin Is On a Mission From God

- How Richard Branson Works Magic

- Larry Ellison: A Samurai Warrior in Silicon Valley

- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, NV: Financing from Start-up through IPO

- Log On America

- Monitor110: A Post Mortem

- Ruben Vardanian at the Helm of Troika Dialog

- The East is Red: French Wines in Asia

- The House that Branson Built: Virgin's Entry Into the New Millennium

- The Rocky Road from Startup to Big-Time Player: Biogen's Triumph Against the Odds

- The Whistle InterJet: The First Internet Appliance for Small-to-Medium Size Businesses (A, B & C)

Downloadable Files (14)
- 10 Ways to Build Your E-Biz
- 10 Ways to Build Your E-Biz.ppt
- 5 Myths About Entrepreneurs
- Balancing Founders and VC's Interests.pdf
- Compasses for the Startup Storm
- Entrepreneurship - The Observations of 2 MBAs
- Entrepreneurship: Thoughts from Versata Founder
- Generic Business Plan Presentation Template
- Getting Your Idea Funded
- Inc.com Sample Financial Projections Worksheet
- Structuring Your Startup.pdf
- The Bell-Mason Diagnostic
- The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship"
- VCprocess.ppt
Thought Leader Interviews (3)
Market Research (21)
- Angel Investing by the Numbers
- Angel Investments in the U.S. (2006)
- Charting the IPO Revival
- Entrepreneurship Education May be Just the Ticket
- Entrepreneuship Facts
- Equity Pay Packages at VC-Backed Start-Ups
- High-growth Companies and Regions (US)
- How Entrepreneurs Spend Their Days
- Incubator Statistics
- Number of Entrepreneurs in the U.S.
- Sources of Funding for Small Businesses
- Startup Shutdown
- Startup Valuations Level Off
- Startups Increase in Value
- Stock Option Statistics
- Stock Option Usage Statistics
- The Entrepreneurship Explosion
- The Internet Boom
- University Tech Transfers 2002
- Venture Valuations
- Women and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Associations / Organizations (4)
- The Directory of Associations

- Associations Gateway

- Associations Unlimited CD-ROM

- Kauffmann Foundation

