Resources for Entrepreneurs

Consultants • Business Planning & Fundraising • Magazines, Web Sites & Journals • Networking • Business Resources

Consultants

Including Business Development, Fund Raising, Strategic Planning

	Skinner Creative, Inc. - Creative Consulting for the Composites Industry - Filament Winding, Pultrusion, Fiber Placement, Thermoplastics - Product development, Business development, Strategic planning, Plant design, Automation, Economic analysis
	A Williams Associates, Ltd - Specializing in the wind energy market
	Connectra Continental sprl - International business development services for the materials, electronics and chemicals sectors across North America, Western and Eastern Europe
	Materials Application Development LLC - New business development
	MCSquared Consultants, Ltd. - Cost effective solutions covering strategy & business development, programme, research & technology management, funding acquisition and partnering, engineering design, structures and stress analysis, manufacturing and industrial ramp up.

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Business Planning & Fundraising

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• Cambridge Financial Services & Software - Venture Capital Financing Firm - Resources & Consulting for Entrepreneurs - Get the business capital you need without loan payments, interest or collateral.
• Edward Lowe Peerspectives - a Web site for business owners looking to take their companies to the next level.
• Growthink Research - market research firm that specializes in tracking and analyzing venture capital activity. Our proprietary venture capital database has detailed information on over 6,250 U.S.-based, venture-funded companies, over 11,500 funding transactions, and over 60,000 executives, directors and advisors.
• Kauffman Foundation eVenturing - Resources for entrepreneurs.
• Private Equity - a search directory of online information, Web site links, and an industry event calendar serving: venture capitalists, buyout firms, investment bankers, M&A groups, institutional investors, lawyers, accountants, consultants and other financial industry professionals in addition to prospective portfolio companies and entrepreneurs seeking business financing.
• National Venture Capital Association - The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is a trade association that represents the U.S. venture capital industry. It is a member-based organization, which consists of venture capital firms that manage pools of risk equity capital designated to be invested in high growth companies.
• RPI Venture Bplan Series - The Venture Bplan series is Tech Valley’s premier monthly venture forum. Each month, two start-up technology ventures are invited from across the region to present their business plans and financial needs before a panel of investors and a general audience.
• Young Entrepreneurs Organization - As a global, non-profit educational organization for today's leading business owners, the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO), and its sister graduate organization, the World Entrepreneurs' Organization (WEO), strives to help its members build upon their successes through an array of learning and networking opportunities.
• Venture Capital Forum - a searchable directory of venture capital firms in the USA and Asia.
• V Finance - vFinance, Inc. is a rapidly growing financial services company that provides research, investment banking, brokerage and trading services to more than 10,000 corporate, institutional and private clients worldwide. The Company's Web site, is a leading destination on the Internet for companies seeking capital, as well as institutional and high net-worth investors seeking dynamic high-growth companies.

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Magazines, Web Sites & Journals

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• American Venture - At American Venture we understand the processes involved in growing an innovative idea and advancing your existing company to the next level. When a company begins to grow, the leaders will encounter an endless amount of questions on how to best approach situations. Through a unique collection of professional writers, contacts, and resources, American Venture Magazine exposes possible problems and prepares readers.
• Business 2.0
• CEOExpress - Web portal with links to many busniness related web sites
• Corante - Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers.
• Entrepreneur.com
• Forbes.com
• Inc.com
• MIT Technology Review - Since 1899, Technology Review has been MIT's magazine of innovation. Our mission statement "to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society" defines the unique value that Technology Review's delivers making it a vital resource for business decision makers in emerging growth and global 2000 companies.
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers Moneytree - The MoneyTree Survey is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. The MoneyTree Survey is the definitive source of information on emerging companies that receive financing and the venture capital firms that provide it. The study is a staple of the financial community, entrepreneurs, government policymakers and the business press worldwide.
• Venture Economics - your source for global private equity intelligence. The site’s daily news and statistics offer a snapshot of the US, European, and Asian private equity markets.
• Venture One - Dedicated to the venture capital industry
• Venture Wire - the premier source of news, networking, and information about private technology companies, VC firms, and the people that manage and finance them.
• WSJ StartupJournal - Starting your own business or buying a franchise is tough, even in a strong economy. You'll have to research the market, secure financing, open a shop, hire employees and run the enterprise. StartupJournal can help. Our content comes from the powerful editorial resources of The Wall Street Journal, the world's leading business publication, as well as WSJ.com, industry experts and StartupJournal's editorial team.
• Wired

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Networking Sites

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• Doostang - Doostang is the trusted professional network. The network grows by invitation only which ensures that all contacts that enter the system are trusted by at least one or more members in the network. Using your personal network is the most effective way to find the right candidate for a position and to find the perfect job.
• Ecademy - the business exchange that connects people to knowledge, contacts, support and business. Members join to learn and practice business networking for contacts, knowledge, support and business transactions through the website's unique networking tools and face to face at networking events.
• EntreMate - EntreMate is the premier online resource for connecting entrepreneurs for purposes of starting businesses. EntreMate operates similarly to a personals site, where the user can post one or more profiles and/or search the database looking for others that share a business interest.
• FaceToFaceNetworking.com - Speed networking events for business professionals in New York.
• InnerSell - InnerSell is a revolutionary new way of bringing buyers and sellers together. It leverages the fact that business buyers often identify a need to a salesperson they trust even if they know that salesperson may not be able to satisfy it.
• Konnects - Konnects serves as your personal business agent, by introducing you to new business contacts.
  Tell us who or what you are looking for, and let Konnects find the right connection to serve your needs.
• Knowmentum - Knowmentum allows you to visually see how you know others. Why is this important? Because it lets you see who your contacts know and what mutual connections you have. Knowing these connections can help you obtain your next job, find that key client, start a business relationship, and more.
• LinkedIn - LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners. Through LinkedIn, you can accelerate your business effectiveness and career success by leveraging the network you already have. LinkedIn makes it easy to receive and seek out opportunities through your extended network while protecting your privacy, your inbox and your existing professional relationships.
• Monster Networking
• Networking For Professionals - NFP makes business networking easy by connecting you with successful professionals who can best help grow your business, improve your client base and advance your career.
• Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships Online - Newsletter, Blog and a networking site guide with reviews of networking sites.
• People That Click - We connect current and aspiring entrepreneurs with potential business partners that offer complimentary skills, resources, contacts or capital.
• Real Contacts - Real Contacts helps you to find staff or jobs through your extended network of contacts.
• Ryze - Ryze helps people make connections and grow their networks. You can network to grow your business, build your career and life, find a job and make sales. Or just keep in touch with friends.
• Spoke - Spoke was founded on a simple fact: A sales person’s greatest asset for generating business is his or her own extended network of business and personal relationships. In fact, over 70% of sales people say that strong relationships are the number-one advantage they want in a deal – above pricing, product or timing.
• Technology Executives Networking Group (TENG) - a professional community of selected Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, vice presidents and directors of technology with organizations ranging from startups to the global Fortune 100, from non-profits to government agencies. TENG members provide each other with a wide range of benefits, including unbiased vendor references, introductions to key contacts in target organizations, insights into business and technology strategies, access to new career opportunities, and a wealth of shared experiences, advice, and support.
• Xing - Europe's leading business networking site. Here, you can extend your personal and business networks.
• ZoomInfo - a business search engine that maps all of the available corporate and human capital information on the Internet to deliver in-depth profiles on 23 million business people and 2 million companies.

Reveiws of selected networking sites can be found at Online Business Networks

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Business Resources

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General Business

• MyCorporation.com - the Internet's leading provider of Incorporation, LLC Formation, and Trademark and Copyright Protection Services.
• Allbusiness.com - an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. AllBusiness.com helps entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, consultants and business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a small business association and more.
• EntreWorld - increase your productivity by getting you essential information as quickly and easily as possible. The EntreWorld search engine delivers the best and most useful information, guidance and contacts for you, the entrepreneur. We actively seek out and provide "A+" content -- more than 1,000 articles, audio clips, tools, databases and even town-to-town small business event listings -- to put the most essential entrepreneurial resources immediately at your fingertips. We add to this content dozens of original management articles written especially for EntreWorld visitors

Logo, Video and Image Design

• LogoBee - High quality logo design, business card and stationary design for all types of businesses all over the world. Logo design in 5 business days! Guaranteed full logo design satisfaction, or your money back.
• Logo Dezign - Great deals on logo design and web design Packages
• LogoWorks - the world's largest and fastest-growing provider of logo design services to small businesses. Logo design, stationary design, web site design, brochure design and promotional products.
• PixelFish - a different kind of video production company

Payroll and Human Resources

• Halogen Software - Making it easy to deliver professional employee appraisals, assessments and compensation adjustments that align with your organization's goals.
• Paycycle - PayCycle frees you from the hassle of calculating payroll taxes, filling out payroll forms, keeping track of deadlines, and complying with ever changing tax rates. With PayCycle's payroll services, every payday can be fast, easy, and error-free.
• Pay Systems of America - From small family-owned businesses with just a few employees to large multi-state corporations with thousands of employees, PSA makes sure people are paid every week all across the United States.

Accounting

• Quick Books - QuickBooks Financial Software - Whatever your size or industry, you'll find a version that's just right for you.

Web Based Office Software

• Contact Office — Easily manage your data (emails, contacts, meetings, documents, tasks, ...) in your virtual office from any computer with a Web browser and an Internet connection. Share your data and access shared data efficiently in the context of work or leisure groups. Your data are safe and available anytime on the Web, on a PDA (online or offline) or on a WAP capable cell phone.
• Netsuite - the leading provider of integrated business application software for small and midsize businesses. Manage all key business operations—in a single hosted system, including: customer relationship management (CRM); order fulfillment; inventory; finance and product assembly; ecommerce; Web site management; and employee productivity.
• Smart Online - Smart Online develops and markets Internet-delivered (Software-as-Service (SaS)) business critical software applications and data resources to start, run, protect and grow small businesses.
• WebOffice — on-demand collaboration services, featuring an integrated suite of powerful business applications, including document sharing, online calendar, group scheduling, online database, online meetings, web conferencing services and more – all specifically designed for today’s business. There’s no software to install or download, everything’s on the web. Get your own WebEx WebOffice

Banking and Credit Cards

• American Express Small Business
• BankRate.com - Rate information on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.

Business Services

• Smarterwork - Smarterwork specialise in bringing clients and qualified Service Providers together to carry out short, medium or long term projects. Internet Services, Marketing & Creative, Personal Assistant Services, Research Services, Web Design Services, Writing Services, Software Development Services, Business Consulting Services, Legal Services, Tax Services, Translation Services

Leasing

• MT Corporation - Equipment Leasing

Office Supplies

• Staples - 100,000 products, from toner to coffee tables -- ten-times more stuff than is available in Staples' brick-and-mortar stores.
• OfficeMax - Find office supplies and office products such as binders and file folders at OfficeMax.com.

Printing

• PrintingForLess.com - high quality color printing in the short to medium run color printing market. Our team has over 500 years of combined experience in the graphics industry, enabling us to produce very high quality work. PrintingForLess.com is proud to sell more full color printing online than any other company in the USA!

Web Site Resources

• GoDaddy - GoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar
• Homestead - Your complete website building and hosting solution. Homestead gives you everything you need: easy-to-use software, personal domains & matching email accounts, reliable hosting - even ecommerce for those selling online.
• Microsoft Small Business Center
• Yahoo! Small Business - Yahoo! Small Business is a one-stop success center where you can enhance every aspect of your online operations.

Goverment Resources

• Business.gov - Business.gov guides you through the maze of government rules and regulations and provides access to services and resources to help you start, grow, and succeed in business.
• SBA - United States Small Business Administration - In English and Spanish.

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