(Prof Molly Jahn and Sector 67's Chris Meyer pitching Agricultural Innovation Prize, 2014)
Entrepreneurship clinic
This project is a resource letter to enable students to take advantage of campus, local, and national opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Invocation
"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 your future now, or just maybe think about it later and coast? Make something now or wait until say graduate school or some postgraduate employment. 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.
Things your adviser never told you: Entrepreneurship’s role in physics education http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i8/p42_s1
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
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
Example startup http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radiantfabrication/lionhead-3d-printer-and-3d-scanner-with-li-modelin, http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/lionhead
Students sought to organize national ag 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
Caveat
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
News http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/#!
Example ideas
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/
Getting started
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
Entrepreneurial spirit and sterotypes (Read past the title to the end. You need not be a misfit.)
http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/27/garage-inventors/
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
Get involved in your local ecosystem http://southernalpha.com/the-feed/get-involved-in-your-citys-entrepreneur-ecosystem/
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
Online courses
MIT OpenCourses beginning with Inventions and Patents
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/entrepreneurship/#listing
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
UW 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
Business plan goals list
Arts Feasibility Study Challenge http://ei.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Arts-Venture-Feasibility-Study-Template_Final.pdf
Patents and IP
US Patent Office http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp
Free patents online http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
General information from WARF http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/for-uw-inventors.cmsx
Lab notebook advise http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/lab-book-guidelines/lab-book-guidelines.cmsx
Industrial partnerships research agreement guide http://www.grad.wisc.edu/oip/RschAgreeGuide.html
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
UW student organizations
http://uwmadsbi.com/ UW Madison Student Business Incubator
http://www.uwceo.com/welcome-to-uw-madison-ceo/ UW Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO)
https://win.wisc.edu/organization/transcend/about UW Madison Transcend Engineering
http://www.housing.wisc.edu/erlc - Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, a vibrant community of students that pursue all imaginable majors.
http://www.badgerinnovations.com/ Professional websites, student rates.
National student organizations
University Innovation http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Main_Page
University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org
Campus opportunities and resources
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.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
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 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.
Off campus local resources
http://www.gener8tor.com/portfolio/ - a local accelerator with internships
http://www.lawrence.edu/academics/IandE/courses/inPursuitofInnovation.shtml - Lawrence U.
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.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
Farther afield
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
http://www.wisecurity.org/ - Wisconsin Security Research Consortium
http://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/policy/BPC/ - Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest
http://www.1871.com/ - Chicago digital startup center
http://www.lightbank.com/ - a Chicago venture capital firm
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
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/
Around the world
University Business Incubator Index Global Top List 2013 http://ubiindex.com/global-top-list-2013/
Global internships http://www.globalexperiences.com/careers/business_internships.php
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
Crowd source funding
Alumni finder: http://www.alumnifunder.com/
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
Startup accelerators
Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/startups/
http://ycombinator.com/faq.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
Conferences
U. MI. list: http://www.cfe.umich.edu/competitions-conferences
Ideas and Entrepreneurship list: http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2911
International: https://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/dubai/iceid/cfp.php
European: http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm
Entrepreneurship programs
USNews Top 25: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-entrepreneurship/spp+25
Princeton review: http://www.princetonreview.com/undergraduate-entrepreneur.aspx
Entrepreneurs.com review: http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges/undergrad/1.html
Social entrepreneurship: http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/learn-more/where-to-study.html, http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/the-companies/
Singularity University (NASA) http://singularityu.org/graduate-studies-program/
Additional resources
U. MI list: http://www.cfe.umich.edu/resources