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ABCs of Small Business is the small business education site of VentureConsult. It is a resource for small business owners and the people who want to start or buy a business. It aims to provide one place that would answer most basic business questions without getting deeply into esoteric academics or giving people a hard sell.

Content: Online Resource | Source: VentureConsult | Subject: Small Business

Bill Joos, vice president of business development for Garage.com, teaches entrepreneurs how to perfect their elevator pitches — a sales lesson anyone can apply in under a minute, or in fewer than three floors.

Content: Article | Author: John Hoult | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Founder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Content: Thought Leader | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

former journalist – now VC with New Enterprise Associates

Content: Thought Leader | Source: tnbt.com | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

The goal of the DRC is to ask the right questions about state economies. How well is the state’s economy performing in generating a more widely shared and sustainable standard of living? How vital are its large and small businesses? What is the state’s capacity for future development? Each major index tries to answer one of these questions. The DRC provides policymakers, development professionals, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship

More and more B-schools are starting ”business incubators” to launch startups. Is it education or business? Well, it’s both

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Merritt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related

VCs are supposed to earn their substantial keep by identifying promising opportunities and turning them into profitable businesses. Following the pack would seem to undermine the very principle of venture investing. Yet VCs have largely mirrored the public markets, first pouring irrational sums into Net retailing plays, and then moving on to b-to-b, and then to infrastructure, and then to wireless, and then to fiber … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Weber | Source: The Standard | Subject: Venture Capital

Atiq Raza was in position to become CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s old-guard giants. But he left to create Raza Foundries, a company that helps build other companies. Just don’t call it an incubator.

Includes a sidebar of three leadership lessons learned by proteges of Atiq Raza: never take a dollar at face value; deal with the customers who count; and focus on the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Managing Partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners

Content: Thought Leader | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital

Set of useful (though not comprehensive) resources for startups or small businesses. Categories include: Business Ideas (Build an e-business, Buy a business, Analyze your financial performance, Find company valuations, Order industry financial data, Calculate startup costs); Startup Financing (Find a business incubator, Get business loans, Find real estate loans, Locate venture capital, Locate private equity, Find a credit card processor, Outsource your collections, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: AllBusiness.com | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Ever spent hours or days trying to find a domain name that isn’t taken? Nameboy.com will do it for you. Enter the primary and secondary keywords that describe your site, select your category, (e-commerce, portal, news, etc.), and click “go nameboy, go.” The results are offered in three columns. The first column gives you available names to consider. The second column lists names … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Nameboy.com | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

As the biggest technology vendors increasingly act as venture capitalists, what are they getting in return?

Content: Article | Author: Aaron Ricadela | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Venture Capital

The founder of the visionary, yet doomed, GO Corporation kept notes throughout his years at the helm, thinking that one day he would produce a book. It shows. This is a vivid and lively rise-and-fall account of a company born to create a pen-based computer. It begins on a corporate jet with the author and fellow industry visionary Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus, sharing a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jerry Kaplan | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Content: Book | Author: David Packard | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

Brought to you by the WSJ and Palo Alto Software. “By completing the exercises in the MiniPlan, our free initial assessment business plan program, you can test your objectives, define a mission, analyze markets, determine your break-even point… and much more. Simply sign up and start working. It’s a quick, easy way to begin down the entrepreneurial path.”

I found the sample plans section the … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: Palo Alto Software, Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Business Development, Entrepreneurship

No, it’s not the person behind Benchmark’s $2.5 billion payoff with eBay. Try Kleiner Perkins’ Vinod Kholsa, who parlayed a less than $5 million investment into Juniper Networks into shares worth more than $8 billion.

Content: Article | Author: Melanie Warner | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: People, Venture Capital

Moot Corp. diary: Behind the scenes at the business-plan contest everyone wants to win – a detailed investigation of the International Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Warshaw | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related

Inc.com offers a crash course helping students deal with the pressures of academics and a social life while starting up a business when still in school. The survival kits begins with a host of first-hand accounts of young entrepreneurs, including the founders of Feld Technologies, Nantucket Nectors, and Dell Computers. It also offers information on student business plan contests, the fundamental basics of starting a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bruce Kohl | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship

AngelSociety launched its multi-platform resource for the angel investing community and early-stage growth companies. The core components of AngelSociety’s community offerings include: Angel Advisor, a bi-monthly magazine (to premiere December 2000) from Bloomberg that will cover major issues and themes facing angel investors; AngelSociety Forum, an angel investing event that will provide a face-to-face networking environment for angel investors, venture capitalists, early-stage companies and related … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: AngelSociety | Subject: Venture Capital

Article focuses on the early (angel) stage investing when traditional valuation methods are of limited value. Discusses the idea of a bridge loan with convertible warrants based on a Series A round.

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Bartlett | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Venture Capital