Entrepreneurship clinic

(Prof Molly Jahn and Sector 67's Chris Meyer pitching Agricultural Innovation Prize, 2014)

This project is a resource letter to enable students to take advantage of campus, local, and national opportunities for entrepreneurship.

"Entendre" means to undertake. An entrepreneurial spirit seeks opportunity in all things. It is an attitude that can serve you well. Would you like to start thinking about your future now, or just maybe think about it later and coast? You have the tools and resources you need to explore the notion of developing your OWN ideas and even starting and running your own company while at UW-Madison. Physicists and hardware makers have a special role to play. Let's get started.

Why think about entrepreneurship

“Entrepreneurship will create a better world. It’s not just about new company, capital, and job formation, nor innovation, nor creativity, nor breakthroughs. It is also about fostering an ingenious human spirit and improving humankind.” - Jeffry A. Timmons (1941-2008) Founded Price-Babson SEE in 1984

"Turns out for many, identifying as an entrepreneur is less important than identifying with the entrepreneurship path. It’s critical that people see the creation of their own opportunities as a viable and attainable possibility for themselves." The Babson Entrepreneur Experience Lab aims to address these issues by focusing on the realities of entrepreneurship today through the lens of entrepreneurs themselves. Download Elements of the New Venture Entrepreneur Experience, Elements of the Entrepreneur Inside Experience, Masterclass,

http://elab.businessinnovationfactory.com/downloads

American Physical Society initiative http://www.aps.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/programs/education/conferences/innovation.cfm

Get excited

Why the University Is the Ideal Startup Platform http://www.wired.com/2014/02/university-ideal-startup-platform/

Things your adviser never told you: Entrepreneurship’s role in physics education http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i8/p42_s1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2083

The alternative career is no longer alternative. It’s time to rethink STEM graduate education and align it with the real job market. http://scitation.aip.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2016?utm_medium=email&utm_source=American+Institute+of+Physics&utm_campaign=4546924_Physics+Today%3a+The+week+in+Physics+4-8+August+&dm_i=1Y69,2PGFG,E1N5G9,9VJRC,1

Being a tech geek is cool, I should know, I am one. http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/15/being-a-geek-is-cool-i-am-one

Millennials to the Rescue! Young entrepreneurs could save Madison's economy http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=40722

The Millennial Generation Research Review http://emerging.uschamber.com/MillennialsReport

Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor http://www.gemconsortium.org/

The Future of the University and Public Research for the Entrepreneurial Age,by Carl J. Schramm President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=5758

Ideafests 2013 – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competitions at UW-Madison https://www.facebook.com/pages/G-Steven-Burrill-Business-Plan-Competition/144000448900?ref=hl

Students sought to organize national Agricultural Innovation prize competition http://theweekly.wisc.edu/newsletter/achievements-the-weekly/new-post-for-badgers-in-the-world-the-weekly-15/?utm_source=September+2013+newsletter&utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email

Elon Musk (PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors) physics major, http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201310/profiles.cfm, http://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/musk.cfm

Speakers at Y Combinator's Startup Schools (links to various entrepreneurs) http://startupschool.org/allspeakers.html

Latest news on Wisconsin entrepreneurship http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/ http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/#!

UW-Madison spinoffs news: http://www.news.wisc.edu/spinoffs

Millennials Have Their Own Definition of Entrepreneurship http://www.businessinsider.com/gen-ys-impact-on-the-future-of-work-2013-5

Microentrepreneurs May Be an Untapped Market for Product Design http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812121459.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Garage Inventors http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/27/garage-inventors/

Millennial Trains Project http://millennialtrain.co/

Venturewell's Idea to Impact program for universities https://venturewell.org/

Don't neglect your education

The demographics of innovation in the United States may not be what you think, and becoming an innovator does not require dropping out of school to launch a Facebook or APPLE. You need passion and energy of course. An innovator generally needs to have or be able to rapidly acquire domain expertise to recognize what is innovative! A wide variety of skills and experience help, and self awareness, e.g. appreciation of the need for others with skills you lack. You may need the resources of a large organization, innovate as an "intrapreneur." Defining innovation in terms of patents and other metrics, "Four-fifths of innovators possess at least one advanced degree, and 55 percent have attained a Ph.D. in a STEM subject." "Approximately 60 percent of private-sector innovations originate from businesses with more than 500 employees" https://itif.org/publications/2016/02/24/demographics-innovation-united-states.

Whether you become an entrepreneur or intrapreneur, your exact undergraduate major is not a determining factor, though STEM education plays an important role in many industries. For example, from http://insightdatascience.com:

"Who are the best data scientists? According to DJ Patil, the former Chief Scientist at LinkedIn who co-coined the term data scientist and an Insight mentor and advisor, “the best data scientists tend to be ‘hard scientists,’ particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors. Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills, and come from a discipline in which survival depends on getting the most from the data. They have to think about the big picture, the big problem8. ” The same applies for any scientist whose work is highly quantitative, writes code or analyzes data, including PhDs in astronomy, astrophysics, physical chemistry, computational biology, and neuroscience as well as researchers in mathematics, statistics, engineering, machine learning, operations research, economics, quantitative social sciences and!other data-heavy fields."

Read an overview

Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, Tom Worthington, download free pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Worthington/Books/Commercialisation_and_Entrepreneurship#Commercialisation_and_Entrepreneurship

Hitchhikers guide to entrepreneurship podcast https://www.businesshitchhiker.com/startup-survival-podcast/

Make a mission statement

Don't worry; this is really easy. First be inspired by Dilbert http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Mission%20Statement and then use this handy tool: http://www.lotta.se/mission-statement-generator/?dummy_value=223852226

Ha, ha. Just kidding. According to some, vision/goal is an important prerequisite, lasting forever, offering mountains/missions along an endless road, surmounted by strategies and tactics. Others ditch the mission idea and just go for 'mantra' like "Absolutely, positively the next day" (Fedex) and for an exit strategy. I mean, life is short, investors want a payout not to support a lifestyle...

Business model canvas

Do some brainstorming, and share. Online brainstorm shared canvases based on the Business Model Canvas. https://canvanizer.com/how-to-use/which-canvas-template-to-choose, or roll your own http://thoughtsof.matthiasjuette.de/business-model-canvas-template/

Face reality and plan to stay informed too

Innovation: Bridging the market gap http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/news/innovation-bridging-the-market-gap-1.13778?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130926#/b4

Proof of concept (actual proof) http://www.kauffman.org/advancing-innovation/proof-of-concept-centers.aspx

How to teach entrepreneurship - Community, Broad Appeal, Networking, Real World Curriculum) http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/10/16/How-to-Teach-Entrepreneurship.aspx?Page=1

No exit "the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy" http://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit/

Entrepreneurial spirit and stereotypes (Read past the title to the end. You need not be a misfit.)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806091558.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Tools to someday understand http://www.foundersworkbench.com/

There is a "novel" for entrepreneurs that can help you shed fantasies and avert becoming a statistic: "all in startup" by Diana Kander http://www.amazon.com/All-Startup-Launching-Idea-Everything/dp/1118857666. Phil Hellmuth (from Madison) makes a cameo.

Look at what others are doing

Forbes 30 under 30 series http://www.forbes.com/search/?q=30+under+30

Indiegogo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trackr-bravo-the-thinnest-item-tracking-device-ever

Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radiantfabrication/lionhead-3d-printer-and-3d-scanner-with-li-modelin, http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/lionhead

Startuply http://www.startuply.com/Startups/

Finalists at NCSU competitions: http://ei.ncsu.edu/egames/2013-finalist-semifinalist-teams/

Dragon innovation http://www.dragoninnovation.com/

Education Investor portfolios: Learn Capitol http://www.learncapital.com/portfolio/, New Schools Venture Fund http://www.newschools.org/ventures , Kapor Capital http://www.kaporcapital.com/view/portfolio/, New Markets Venture Partners http://www.newmarketsvp.com/portfolio/, Rethink Education http://rteducation.com/portfolio/

Madison startups https://www.f6s.com/startups?search={%22context%22:%22and%22,%22rules%22:[{%22filter%22:%22location%22,%22operator%22:%22eq%22,%22value%22:{%22type%22:%22city%22,%22object_id%22:120667}}]}&ss=1&sort=popularity&sort_dir=desc&all_startups=1&columns[]=markets&columns[]=location&columns[]=founders&columns[]=founded

Begin to get started

Start with 'Why.' Martin Luther King did NOT say "I have a plan." Instead, "I have a dream." Simon Sinek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sioZd3AxmnE&feature=youtu.be

Elevator pitch builder http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/

Entrepreneurs toolkit http://witoolkit.com/

Entrepreneur.com http://www.entrepreneur.com/

Entrepreneur.org http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Resource-Center/Topics/The-Entrepreneur.aspx

Getting started http://marriottschool.byu.edu/sitemap/?id=10994

Startup Smart http://www.startupsmart.com.au/home-based-business/running-a-business-from-home/two-australian-university-business-accelerators-named-in-top-global-list/2013071910263.html

Dream Big America - Every Tuesday, three entrepreneurs will present their business ideas on the first-ever live radio show startup competition, and America votes for the winner. Listen and vote http://dreambigamerica.us/, http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/kauffman-foundation-partners-with-weekly-dream-big-america-live-radio-entrepreneur-competition.aspx

Founding by founders https://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/starting/founding

Crash course in funding http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Google entrepreneurship online learning http://www.google.com/entrepreneurs/onlinelearning/

Google's tools for entrepeneurs (23 videos as of 2015) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9KVIdeJ2K8MEMoZH5wzrHa4prGvrhHJA

Take an online course

University of Maryland's "Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace" on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/innovative

How to Start a Startup http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ - from Y-Combinator founders, a MOOC focused on software startups. Like all these classes, take with a grain of salt. Interesting Paul Graham kinda wishes he had studied physics.

Kauffman foundation http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/entrepreneurship

MIT OpenCourses beginning with Inventions and Patents

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/entrepreneurship/#listing

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-901-inventions-and-patents-fall-2005/index.htm

Who Owns The Icehouse http://whoownstheicehouse.com/video/

Yale Entrepreneurial Institute talks summaries http://yei.yale.edu/yei-resources

NOVOED https://novoed.com/

Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate http://create.stanford.edu/certificate.php, http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/09/30/stanford-launches-online-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-course.aspx?=CTCLV

EPICENTER Online courses http://epicenter.stanford.edu/resource/epicenter-online-courses

Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad class and other resources http://steveblank.com/slides/

12 Tips for customer development interviews http://giffconstable.com/2010/07/12-tips-for-early-customer-development-interviews/

Customer Discovery Best practices https://docs.google.com/a/vt.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dnQuZWR1fHRoZS1zdGFydHVwLWNsYXNzfGd4OjM1ODViZGM4NWExM2QyZDc

Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, a U.Maryland MOOC, https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas (described at http://nciia.org/open/presentation/200000-served-experiences-from-a-mooc-on-entrepreneurship-and-innovation/)

Global Innovation through Science and Technology resources http://www.gistnetwork.org/resources

Startup survival podcast. https://startupsurvival.simventure.com/

Get into University of Wisconsin-Madison classes and programs

The WARF UpStart Program for Minority and Women’s Entrepreneurship is designed to equip entrepreneurially minded women and minorities in the Madison area with the tools needed to launch or expand any business venture. http://www.warf.org/home/news-media/campus-programs/upstart/upstart.cmsx

New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors

Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/class-spring-2013/

Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community seminar http://www2.housing.wisc.edu/classes/docs/Fall2013/ERLC.pdf

Starting a Software Company, UW-Madison gets serious about supporting student software developers http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=38723

Representative Small Business Development Center class http://sbdc.wisc.edu/startup/etp/default.asp

Bolz Center and the Arts http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/bolz-center-for-arts-administration/research-special-projects

Industrial partnerships research agreement guide http://www.grad.wisc.edu/oip/RschAgreeGuide.html

Documents http://www.foundersworkbench.com/document-driver/

Inventors assistance league, a nonprofit that for a fee will assist in patent evaluation, patenting. Video resources to guide you http://www.inventions.org

Learn about incorporation

First thing is to visit the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic https://www.uwle.org/

Resources from a company in the biz https://www.incorporate.com/learning_center.html

and another https://www.harborcompliance.com/information/business-registration-guide

Company research

Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR http://www.sec.gov/edgar/quickedgar.htm#.VG-Jj4eJmB1

Marketing is important

Beginners guide http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090901/guidebook-how-to-conduct-market-research.html

More resources http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library/marketing-market-research

Some expert videos from Stukent https://www.stukent.com/expert-session-speakers/

Learn from UW startups

Care to meet companies spun-off from University of Wisconsin? http://ww.bus.wisc.edu/insite/insite-census/

University Research Park tenants http://www.universityresearchpark.org/tenants/tenant_profiles/

WARF technologies http://www.warf.org/technologies.jsp

WARF Accelerator program pipeline http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/accelerator-program/in-the-pipeline/in-the-pipeline.cmsx

Wisconsin Center for Education Products and Services https://www.wceps.org/team.html

Badgers to contact in Silcon Valley http://www.siliconvalleybadgers.com/

Eric Ronning, the student who inspired Garage: http://news.wisc.edu/capital-infusion-prepares-uw-madison-startup-to-stir-up-industrial-adhesive-market/

Join a UW student organization

UW Insight Wisconsin student organization "Insight Wisconsin prides itself in its passionate, interdisciplinary members working on projects ranging from astrobotany to community impact initiatives." https://www.insightwisconsin.org/

UW WiSolve Graduate student and postdoc voluntary consulting group http://www.wisolve.org/

UW Madison Student Business Incubator now Madventures coworking space http://madventurescoworking.com

UW Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) http://www.uwceo.com/welcome-to-uw-madison-ceo/

UW Madison Transcend Engineering https://win.wisc.edu/organization/transcend/about

UW HubClub, computer science students http://thehubclub.wordpress.com/about/

UW Engineers in business https://win.wisc.edu/organization/eib

UW Chapter of National Organization for Business and Engineering https://win.wisc.edu/organization/nobe_wisconsin

UW ERLC, Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, a vibrant community of students that pursue all imaginable majors. http://www.housing.wisc.edu/erlc

Professional websites, student rates, a student start-up that supports campus entrepreneurs http://www.badgerinnovations.com/

Join National student organizations

University Innovation http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Main_Page

University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org

Get familiar with campus opportunities and resources

http://urpat1403.com/ As part of the world-class University Research Park, @1403 offers state-of-the-art facilities and co-working, networking, and mentoring opportunities to help turn big ideas into businesses.

https://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/burrill-business-plan/resources Resources for participants in the G. Steven Burrill business competition at UW_Madison, must read.

http://bus.wisc.edu/bba/mybiz/blog - Happenings for students of business

https://sites.google.com/site/100hourchallenge2013/ - ERLC 100 hour challenge

http://http://innovation.wisc.edu/ - UW Innovation Days. Turn your idea in a cash prize winning proposal through Campus Innovation Days, the Qualcom Wireless innovation Prize, G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition, or Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge

http://www.hultprize.org/, http://www.hultprizeat.com/wisconsinmadison Hult Prize, students teams compete for $1e6.

http://www.engr.wisc.edu/entrepreneurship.html - UW Engineering programs in entrepreneurship

http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert - UW business school program in entrepreneurship

http://bus.wisc.edu/bba/academics/majors/certificate-entrepreneurship - Certificate in Entrepreneurship

http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/burrill-business-plan - UW business plan competition

http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/wisconsin-entrepreneurial-bootcamp - Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp

http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/insite - Initiative for Studies in Entrepreneurship. The INSITE ENTREPRENEURSHIP GUIDE link is https://apps.bus.wisc.edu/insite-entrepreneurship-guide/

http://www.law.wisc.edu/academics/clinics/le/index.html - Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, legal advice

http://wid.wisc.edu/programs/hzx/ - Hybrid Zone X, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery innovation center

http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=61&scid=129 - WARF Discovery Challenge

http://innovation.wisc.edu/sustainability/ - Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge

http://www.ms-biotech.wisc.edu/curriculum.cfm - UW Master of Science in Biotechnology program

http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/resources/ - New Arts Enterprise Wisconsin

http://sbdc.wisc.edu/default.asp - UW Madison School of Business Small Business Development Center

https://contest.cs.wisc.edu/ - UW Madison Computer Sciences NEST Software contest

http://www.merlinmentors.org/ The Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network (MERLIN) is a Madison-based corp of volunteers who have masterfully started and managed new ventures. These mentors use their skills, experience and enthusiasm to guide emerging entrepreneurs in early stage ventures to boost the potential of business success.

http://innovation.wisc.edu/tong/ Tong Prototype Prize

http://energy.wisc.edu/wienergychallenge SAGE Global Stewards Sustainability Prize, Submit a 4-5 page technical report outlining a new technology to advance sustainable and affordable energy. The winning idea receives up to $50,000.

UW Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs (ACE) http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/67280

Discovery to Product D2P http://d2p.wisc.edu/ Discovery to Product or D2P is a major new partnership between UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) focused on entrepreneurship and building on a long legacy of collaboration to move UW–Madison-inspired technology and innovation to market.

http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/2014/03/04/california-vc-greg-robinson-to-lead-wisconsins-4490-ventures/ 4490 Ventures capital

http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/resources-for-entrepreneurs-on-campus/ - Office of Corporate Relations Resources for Entrepreneurs

UW Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic services http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert/business-and-entrepreneurship-clinic/apply-for-services

Check out off-campus local resources

https://www.startupgrind.com/madison/ Madison Chapter of Startup Grind powered by Google for Entrepreneurs.

http://www.startupexperience.com/programs/ Startup Weekend programs on the coasts

http://www.gener8tor.com/portfolio/ - local accelerator with internships sponsoring 5 startups/yr (accept rate ~5/300)

http://www.caboosecoworking.com/?m=0 - local coworking hub for startups

http://100state.com/projects/all-projects/ - local coworking hub, see events http://100state.com/events/

http://www.cwd.org/business/commercial-space/madison-enterprise-center/ - Madison Enterprise Center is an office and light industrial business incubator that serves start-up and expanding small businesses.

http://www.madcelerator.com/ - local business accelerator

http://www.instituteforartsentrepreneurship.com/ - Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship

http://www.cvent.com/events/2013-wisconsin-entrepreneurs-conference/event-summary-234f1e5a7d2e451c98a369e3554b4b60.aspx - Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference 2013 in Middleton

http://www.artupweekend.org/, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94693526/artup-weekend-0 - Artup Weekend, arts startup weekend, Madison 26 July '13

http://www.amfam.com/dreambank/ Dreambank on Madison's Capitol Square

http://nibletz.com/2013/07/31/madison-entrepreneurs-civic-leaders-team-create-starting-block/ Starting Block, a proposed local incubation hub.

http://www.lawrence.edu/academics/IandE/courses/inPursuitofInnovation.shtml - Lawrence U.

Opportunities and connections in Wisconsin and beyond

http://www.uww.edu/wisc/ Wisconsin Innovation Service Center

http://www.s.co/region/wisconsin Startup America

http://www.startupwisconsin.org/ Startup Wisconsin

http://www.wbiastate.org/ Wisconsin Business Incubation Association

http://bpc.mhwebstaging.com/ Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition ($100,000)

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Center-Technology-Commercialization-5026904?home=&gid=5026904&trk=anet_ug_hm, Center for Technology Commercialization

http://http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com - Wisconsin Technology Council

http://inwisconsin.com/entrepreneurs-and-innovators/ - Wisconsin Economic Development Department, Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

http://www.wisconsinangelnetwork.com/ - Wisconsin Angel Network. See their extensive resources for entrepreneurs http://www.wisconsinangelnetwork.com/resources/entrepreneurs/

http://www.wisecurity.org/ - Wisconsin Security Research Consortium

http://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/policy/BPC/ - Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest

http://www.ideas2profits.org/ Ideas to Profits conference

http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/introduction - State of Ingenuity, links entrepreneurs to resources in southern WI and northern IL, http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library

http://www.scientistsolutions.com/default.aspx - Life science forum by scientists for scientists

http://i2c.calit2.net/ - Interdigital Innovation Challenge

http://www.sikorsky.com/vgn-ext-templating-SIK/ctrndr?vcmid=b474b8df91530410VgnVCM1000004f62529fRCRD&siteName=Sikorsky Sikorsky Innovations Launches a Transformed Entrepreneurial Challenge to Embrace Entrepreneurial Agility, http://www.sikorsky.com/EChallenge

http://www.hultprize.org/en/ Hult prize business competition

http://cep.mit.edu/ MIT Clean Energy Prize

http://www.cleanenergytrust.org/challenge/ Clean Energy Challenge

http://www.worldfoodprize.org/ World Food Prize

http://www.hbs.edu/newventurecompetition/business-track/Pages/default.aspx Harvard New Venture Competition

NYC Challenge http://www.nycedc.com/program/nyc-next-idea

VT KnowledgeWorks Global Student Challenge http://www.vtkwglobal.com/student_track2013

Hackovate Health Challenge http://hackovate2013.istart.org/?a=94079-12855-1741

Flow Clean Energy Challenge http://flowdoe2013.istart.org/?a=94079-12855-1741

Pirates Pitch http://piratespitch2013.istart.org/?a=94079-12855-1741

Collegiate Inventors Competition http://collegiateinventors.org/

Lemelson MIT National Collegiate Student Prize http://lemelson.mit.edu/awards/lemelson-mit-national-collegiate-student-prize

Midemlab: startup competition (Cannes, France) http://www.midem.com/en/programme/competitions/midemlab/?utm_source=Global+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=ec9ccb1c17-UP_Global_Newsletter_US_Version_November_27th11_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6808e1a473-ec9ccb1c17-264319681

Young Mind awards competition http://www.youngmindawards.com/

Washington Accelerator 1776 and beyond: Startup Federation Startup Federation http://www.1776.vc/startup_federation/

Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge https://cisco.innovationchallenge.com/cisco-global-problem-solver-challenge

Learn about national organizations

National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA) The NCIIA's mission is "to support technology innovation and entrepreneurhisp in higher education to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial innovations and businesses." http://nciia.org

National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (EPICENTER) http://epicenter.stanford.edu/

Small Business Innovation Research Programs (SBIR/STTR) www.sba.gov/sbir

U.S. Department of Energy Inventions and Innovations Program clearinghouse@ee.doe.gov

National Business Incubator Association resources for entrepreneurs http://nbia.org/resource_library/

and globally

University Business Incubator Index Global Top List 2013 http://ubiindex.com/global-top-list-2013/

http://www.wamda.com/

Global internships http://www.globalexperiences.com/careers/business_internships.php

Global Entrepreneurship week http://www.gew.co/

Do the right thing. That might be a B-corp or social entrepreneurship

"helping people in the world’s toughest places survive the crises they confront and turn them into opportunities" http://www.mercycorps.org/innovations

Egypt http://www.wamda.com/2013/08/women-social-entrepreneurs-upper-egypt-boost-world-bank

Get involved with youth

InventionX programming and competitions http://inventionx.org/

Crowd source funding is a new way to get started

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=-191077136&_sort=v&_st=17&view=c&_origin=related_art&panel=citeRelatedArt&_acct=C000228598&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=400b2cef6cd1a924c2179eeb0cf09513&searchtype=a

Alumni finder: http://www.alumnifunder.com/

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/ (see research funding page)

Startup accelerators and angels and venture capitalists can help you along

UWIdeaAdvance/WEDC http://uwideadvance.org/, http://uwideadvance.org/grantapplication/

Madison Enterprise Center (incubator for for-profits) http://www.cwd.org/business/commercial-space/madison-enterprise-center/, http://host.madison.com/business/hive-of-activity-madison-enterprise-center-is-home-to-an/article_a11dea72-0ec6-11e5-8ba0-ebd3a1085c0f.html

Madworks Accelerator (Madison) http://www.madworkscoworking.org

Baird Capital Partners (Madison) http://www.bairdcapital.com/team/baird-capital-team

Venture Investors (Research Park, Madison) http://www.ventureinvestors.com/portfolio-companies/

4490 Ventures (Madison)

HealthX Ventures (Madison) http://healthxventures.com/

American family Ventures (Madison) http://amfamventures.com/

WISC Partners (Madison) http://wiscpartners.com/about

Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/startups/

Y-Combinator, Mountainview CA http://ycombinator.com/faq.html Essays and views http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

Techstars, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, London, NYC, Seattle http://www.techstars.com/ , http://www.inc.com/scott-gerber/david-tisch-nyc-techstars-how-to-launch-a-great-start-up.html

Angelpad http://angelpad.org/

1776, Washington DC, http://1776dc.com/

1871 Chicago digital startup center http://www.1871.com/

Lightbank - a Chicago venture capital firm http://www.lightbank.com/

MIT accelerator rankings http://seedrankings.com/

South by Southwest ranking http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/the-15-best-startup-accelerators-in-the-us.html

Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) competition http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1085:innovation-incubator-program&catid=27:education-overview&Itemid=1114, http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096&Itemid=1134

Garage Technology Ventures (Los Altos) offers a resource list on how to get started and is interested in Garage Physics entrepreneurs: http://www.garage.com/resources/.

Sequoia Capital https://www.sequoiacap.com/ if you are willing to move to the west coast. https://www.sequoiacap.com/us/about/dentmakers

Haxlr8r - a hardware focused accelerator http://haxlr8r.com/

True Ventures - http://www.trueventures.com/founders/

GVSLabs (Palo Alto) http://gsvlabs.com/

Angel list, a startup to help startups https://angel.co/

Excelerate (Chicago) http://exceleratelabs.com/

500 Startups (Mountain View) http://500.co/

Capital Factory (Austin) http://capitalfactory.com/

DreamIt (Philadelphia) http://dreamit.com/

Entrepreneurs ROund Table Acclerator (New York City) http://eranyc.com/

IO Ventures (San Francisco) http://ventures.io/

Tech WildCatters (Dallas) http://techwildcatters.com/