(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 such as Startup Weekend and the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network to learn about entrepreneurship, and to aid conversion of Garage Physics projects into viable spin-off companies.
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
Thursday, September 12, 2013: Engineering Hall, room 1610 @ 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 19, 2013: Wisconsin School of Business, check “Today in Grainger Hall” for room @ 5:30 pm
Thursday, September 26, 2013: Town Center, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery @ 4:00 pm (information table)
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
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
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
UW Classes
New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors
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
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
US Patent Office http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp
Free patents online http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
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
Campus opportunities and resources
http://www.housing.wisc.edu/erlc - Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, a vibrant community of students that pursue all imaginable majors.
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://www.uwceo.com/news/ - campus student entrepreneurs
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.
UW Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/67280
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
Farther afield
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
Around the world
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
Add your name here to participate:
- Duncan Carlsmith