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

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

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

UW Classes

New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors

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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

http://www.wamda.com/

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

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/

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

NYU: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/berkley-center/index.htm

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


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