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Resources
The following is a select list of resources and information for entrepreneurs.
- National
- Minnesota-Specific
- Incubators/Accelerators
- Competitions
- Business Plans
- Intellectual Property
- Stanford Technology Ventures Program
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- Knowledge@Wharton
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Business 2.0: How to Build a Bulletproof Startup
- Change This
- TechCrunch
- Mashable
- Wired
- Fast Company on Technology
- Business Week on Technology
- Vator News
- Inc. Magazine Startup Resources
- Venture Voice – Interviews with Founders & Venture Investors
- PodTech – Interviews with Technology Entrepreneurs
- Venture Beat – Blog on entrepreneurial and venture community in Silicon Valley
- What Would Dad Say? By GL Hoffman
- Seth Godin’s Blog
- Steve Blank’s Blog
- Guy Kawasaki’s Blog
- Graeme Thickins' Blog
- David Skok's "For Entrepreneurs" Blog
- Noam Wasserman's "Founder Frustrations" Blog
- Entrepreneur Turned VC Mark Suster's Blog
- Entrepreneur Turned VC Jeffrey Bussgang's Blog
- Lessons Learned by Eric Ries
- GigaOM: How to Develop a Repeatable Sales Model
- Quora
- PandoDaily
- Fred Wilson Blog
- Paul Graham Blog
- Customer Acquisition Strategies for Entrepreneurs Guide
- Minnesota Cup
- Wisconsin Business Plan Competition
- Rice University Business Plan Competition
- MassChallenge
- Cleantech Open
- Startup Open
- Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge at UMN
- Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
- BizPlanCompetitions.com: online database of entrepreneurship contests
- Dell Social Innovation Competition
- Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge
- MIT Clean Energy Prize
- Clean Energy Challenge
- Arch Grants Business Plan Competition
- Wake Forest Marketing Summit
- Nebraska Innovation Challenge
- Global Innovation Challenge
- bplan: The UC Berkeley Startup Competition
- US Imagine Cup
- Siemens Technology to Business Center's New Ventures Forum
- University of San Francisco International Business Plan Competition
- University of Colorado Denver, Bard Center for Entrepreneurship, Business Plan Competition
- Nascent 500 Business Plan Challenge
- Carolina Challenge
- Queen's Entrepreneur's Competition
- Women in Science and Engineering Business Idea Competition
- McGinnis Venture Competition
- Asia Social Venture Academy
- Brigham Young University Business Model Competition
- 'mai Bangkok Business Challenge
- Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition at Singapore Management University
- Innove
- Changemakers
- Global Social Entrepreneurship
- Experience Princeton
- Minnesota Cup
- Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact
- Sloan Review: Why Business Plans Don't Deliver
- WSJ: Why You Need a Business Plan
- WSJ: Are Business Plans a Waste of Time?
- TECHdotMN: Planning Your Next Start-Up? Stop Before you Start.
- David Cowan: How to NOT Write a Business Plan
- Josh Kopelman: Your Business Plan is Wrong
- Guy Kawasaki: 10/20/30 Rule
- Mark Suster: Are Business Plans Still Necessary?
- Mark Suster: Pitching a VC - Dealing with Competition
- Recommended Books/Articles:
The New Business Road Test, John Mullins
Getting to Plan B, John Mullins & Randy Komisar
Business Plans That Work, Timmons & Spinelli
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changes and Challengers
The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki
Harvard Business Review: How to Write a Great Business Plan, William Sahlman
Harvard Business Review: Is It Real? Can We Win? Is it Worth it?, George Day