Department of Management in Science & Technology

OGI School of Science & Engineering

Oregon Health & Science University

Resources for Entrepreneurs

Index:

1. Oregon Angel Investors

2. Oregon Venture Capital Firms

3. Oregon Private Equity Firms

4. Team Building

5. Accounting & Finance

6. Marketing

7. Strategy

8. Entrepreneurial Finance

9. Valuation

10. Business Plan Resources

11. Entrepreneurial Management

12. Corporate Venturing

13. Operations Management

14. Legal Formation and Intellectual Property

15. Entrepreneurial Assessment

16. Venture Capital

17. Angels

18. IPO's

19. Innovation and Creativity

20. Biotechnology

21. High Technology

22. Business Model

23. Small Business Innovation Research Programs (SBIR)

24. Entrepreneurship Education

25. On-Line Resources

26. OGI Student Papers

27. Weblogs

28. Podcasts

29. Videos

1. Oregon Angel Investors

   • Portland Area Network

   • Women's Investment Network

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2. Oregon Venture Capital Firms

   • Oregon Venture Partners (OVP)

   • Capybara Ventures

   • Cascadia Partners

   • Northwest Technology Ventures

   • Smart Forest Ventures

   • Mt. Hood Equity Partners

   • Portland Venture Group (no web site currently available)

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3. Oregon Private Equity Firms

   • Endeavour Capital

   • Riverlake Partners

   • Veber Partners

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4. Team Building

   • Team Building (Rebecca Perry)  (HTML)          (PDF)

   • Building Effective Teams  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Studying Teamwork in Global IT Support

   • The Age of the Network and Virtual Teams

   • Technology and Collaboration

   • Virtual Teams 101

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5. Accounting & Finance

   • Accounting Concepts                    (PDF)        (HTML)

   • Basic Financial Statement            (PDF)    (HTML)

   • Financial Statement Preparation    (PDF)    (HTML)

   • Stanford--Basics of Accounting  (PDF)  (HTML)

   • How to Read a Financial Report (Merrill Lynch)  (PDF)

   • The Merrill Lynch Guide to Understanding Financial Reports  (PDF)

   • Financial Plan Outline  (HTML)   (PDF)

   • Financial Template (Excel spreadsheet) (Brian Goncher)

   • Financial Spreadsheet for the Business Plan

   • Tools for Writing Business Plans

   • Business in Development Challenge Financial Plan

   • Standards for Financial Plans  

   • Management of Technology Ventures - Accounting Overview  

   • Financial Plan Development

   • Financial Elements of the Entrepreneurial Business Plan

   • Cash Flow Statement and Ratio Analysis

   • Financial Plan Template (Kauffman Center)

   • Financial Model: a generic financial model for use in developing a business plan (Microsoft Excel file attached).  This spreadsheet was created by Charlie Tillett, Sloan 1991 for the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.

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6. Marketing

   • Entrepreneurial Marketing Tutorial (Bob Harmon)

   • Level 5 Market Leadership Chart  (Bob Harmon)

   • Marketing Plan Template  (Bob Harmon)

   • Linking Marketing Strategy to Customer Value

   • 3 Market Sizing

   • Diffusion Model

   • Marketing Information Systems

   • Value Based Software Pricing

   • Technology Marketing Plan Template 

   • 99 Cows (HTML)  (PDF)

   • The Importance of Entrepreneurial Marketing & Sales in Entrepreneurial Startups (Kathy Long Holland)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Market Research for New Ventures

   • Knowing Your Markets and Assessing Your Competitors 

   • Market Research in New Venture Planning

   • Market Research and Competitive Analysis for Startup Companies

   • Building a Product Roadmap

   • New Market Entry and Penetration Strategies

   • Idea Feasability and Value Proposition

    

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7. Strategy

   • Strategy: Concepts, Methods, Value (Matt Harris)    (HTML)    (PDF)

   • Exit Strategy (Financial Times Article)

   • Forget Greed--The Recipe for Success is Passion

   • Technology Strategy

   • Strategy for Startups (Roger Hicks)  (PDF)

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8. Entrepreneurial Finance 

   • New Venture Financing (Wayne Embree)    (HTML)    (PDF)

   • New Venture Financing (Wayne Embree, Cascadia Partners)

   • Boot Strappers Bible (HTML) (PDF)

   • Start-Up Fund Raising: One CFO's Perspective (Joseph Howell)     (HTML)    (PDF)

   • Lessons Learned in Entrepreneurial Finance (Guy Field, CFO You Software)

   • Entrepreneurial Finance Perspectives (Bob McCarthy, CFO, Tripwire)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Sources of Capital (Bruce Helberg, Senior Relationship Manager, Silicon Valley Bank)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Financial Strategies for Emerging Growth Companies (AeA, 4/7/05)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Finding the Money (Les Fahey and Bill Newman)

   • Keeping the Enterprise Alive--Things You Never Thought Of  (Les Fahey)

   • Entrepreneurial Finance--An Overview (Brian Goncher)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Sample Capitalization  (Brian Goncher) (Excel spreadsheet)

   • Sources of Capital (Bruce Helberg & Ron Sherman)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • All Financing Sources Are Not Equal

   • Dilution – A Primer on Stock Vocabulary

   • Crash Course on Capital  

   • Raising Early-Stage Private Equity Capital

   • Valuation (Clare Kenny Tureck)  (HTML) (PDF)

   • National Venture Capital Association Predictions for 2006

   • Valuation and Corporate Governance (Kathleen Sego)  (HTML)  (PDF)

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9. Valuation

   • Valuation (John Hull)  (HTML)  (PDF)

   • Thinking about Valuation  

   • Valuation:  What Is My Company Really Worth?  

   • Valuing Early Stage Companies

   • Teaching Note on Valuation of High Technology Ventures

   • Valuation of High-Tech Ventures

   • Valuation of Development Stage Companies

   • The Venture Capital Deal - Valuation, Ownership and Round Dynamics

   • Financial Elements of Entrepreneurial Business Plans

   • What's Your Business Worth?

   • Early Stage Venture Capital

   • VC Guide to Valuing Early Stage Technology

   • Anatomy of a Venture Deal

   • New Venture Valuation

   • Structuring an Early Stage Financing Deal

   • Valuation Methods (Jack Raiton)  

   • Raising Early-Stage Private Equity Capital

   • What It's Worth? How Technology Companies are Valued Today

   • Dynamics and Structure of Venture Rounds

   • Valuations

    

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10. Business Plan Resources

    • The Business Plan: Structure and Content  (Kathy Long Holland)  (HTML)    (PDF)

    • Venture Oregon Selection Criteria Rating Sheet

    • Asia Moot Corp 2005 Competition - Judge's Evaluation

    • Writing Your Business Plan (Rick Fournier)    (HTML)    (PDF)

    • Planning Your Presentation  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Business Plans for Entrepreneurs (Andrew Rowe, Charlie Kawasaki, Ron Wiener)

    • Basics of Business Planning: From Concept to Pitch (Patricia Beckman)  (HTML) (PDF)

    • Financial Portion of the Business Plan (Jack Raiton) (HTML) (PDF)

    • 7 Steps to A Compelling Business Plan & Financing Pitch (pages 11-25)

    • What is Important When Making Your Pitch?

    • Structure and Key Elements of a Business Plan

    • Outline for a Business Plan

    • Business Plan Outline   

    • Sample Business Plans (University of Colorado)

    • The MIT Entrepreneurial Competition - the $50K - "How to Win" (see pages 10-12, including an example)

    • Elevator Pitches

    • 7 Keys to the Perfect Pitch

    • Opportunity Statement/Elevator Speech (see page 18-19, including an example on page 19)

    • What Makes an Effective Elevator Pitch

    • How to Craft an Effective Elevator Speech (HTML) (PDF)

    • The Art of the Pitch--And How to Craft It  (HTML)   (PDF)

    • How to Develop Your Business Plan (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Finding the Money  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Developing a Business Plan

      • www.sbaonline.sba.gov/gopher

      • www.pasware.com

    • Business Plan Failures: A Top 10 (Angela Biever)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Business Plan Outline (Brian Goncher)  (HTML)   (PDF)

    • Business Plan Archives

    • Perfecting Your Pitch, Part 1:  The Elevator Pitch

    • Perfecting Your Pitch, Part 2: Market, Idea, Team

    • Perfecting Your Pitch, Part 3: The Presentation

    • How the Judges Evaluate Business Ideas  

    • PwC Sample Business Plan

    • University of Michigan Sample Business Plan

    • Yale University Sample Business Plans

    • MOOT Corp. Sample Business Plans

    • Do's and Don'ts in Business Plan Writing

    • Things to Consider When Writing a Business Plan

    • Powerpoint Presentation Tips

    • Summarizing Your Business Idea

    • UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition  

    • BizPlanIt's Virtual Business Plan

    • Business Plan Presentations Designed to Raise Money

    • Observations on Venture Plans

    • Growthink's 2005 Business Plan Development Guide

    • General Business Plan Writing

    • Business Plan Template

    • Developing a Business Plan (University of Miami)

     

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11. Entrepreneurial Management

    • One Entrepreneur's Perspective on Entrepreneurs (LaVonne Reimer)     (HTML)    (PDF)

    • The Social Capital of Entrepreneurial Managers (Jack Raiton)    (HTML)    (PDF)

    • Serial Entrepreneurism (LaVonne Reimer)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Entrepreneurship Framework (Jack Raiton)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • 9 Tips for People Management in Entrepreneurial Ventures (Judy MacDonald Johnson)      (PDF)

    • 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make

    • Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki)  

    • The Twelve (Almost) Sure-Fire Secrets to Entr epreneurial Success

    • Ten Reasons Why Businesses Fail 

    • Top Ten Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

    • Entrepreneurs are born, but can they be taught?

    • Pinpointing That Critical Entrepreneurial Spark

    • Technical Entrepreneurship

    • Entrepreneurship & Open Technology (LaVonne Reimer)  (HTML)  (PDF)

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12. Corporate Venturing

    • Corporate Ventures (Jack Raiton)    (HTML)   (PDF)

    • 3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship (Jack Raiton)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Corporate Entrepreneurship Intel Capital (Angela Biever)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Intrapreneurship (Jack Raiton)    (HTML)    (PDF)

    • Intel Capital Overview  (HTML)  (PDF)

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13. Operations Management

    • Operations Management-Fall 2004 (Mike Neal)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Operations Management-Spring 2005 (Mike Neal)   (HTML)   (PDF)

    • Startup Operations:  Keeping it Going, Sustaining Growth and Success-Summer 2005 (Mike Neal)  (HTML)  (PDF)

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14. Legal Formation and Intellectual Property

    • Term Sheets (HTML)

    • Corporate Governance for the Start-Up (Bill Lattin)  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Valuation of IP (Ashley Stevens)  (HTML)

                  Valuate Manual

                  Valuate2000 (Excel spreadsheet)

                  ValBio2000 (Excel spreadsheet)

                  Sarafem Case Study

    • Intellectual Property and Licensing (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs

    • After the Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Affect the Success or Failure of Technology Companies

    • Corporate Governance for the Startup  (HTML)   (PDF)

    • Negotiating Term Sheets  (Ted Bernhard)  (HTML)   (PDF)

    • Sample Term Sheet  (Ted Bernhard)   (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Sample Memorandum of Terms  (Ted Bernhard)  (HTML)  (PDF)  

    • Your Patents and Your Investors

    • The Importance of Patents  

    • Trademarks Are Nothing to Sneeze At

    • Structuring Venture Capital Deals

    • Security Laws Are Really Important

    • What Are The Terms – A Preferred Return

    • What Are The Terms – Investors Need Some Control After Their Checks Are Cashed

    • Questions of Copyright – Another Weapon in Property Arsenal

    • Avoiding Intellectual Property Problems

    • Intellectual Property – Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents

    • Getting to Market:  Intellectual Property

    • Intellectual Property Protection

    • Defining Terms - Understanding "Term Sheets"

    • Model Legal Forms

    • Fundamentals of Business Law

    • An Entrepreneur's Guide to Lawyers

    • Corporate Governance & Intellectual Property (Gary Glisson & Bill Pierznik)   (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Leveraging and Protecting I/P (Ernie Bootsma) (HTML) (PDF)

    • Corporate Governance (Alice Cuprill-Comas) (HTML) (PDF)

     

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15. Entrepreneurial Assessment

    • Measure Your Entrepreneurial Quotient

    • Entrepreneurial Career Assessment Form  (HTML)  (PDF)

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16. Venture Capital

    • What is Venture Capital  

    • An Overview of the Venture Capital Industry & Emerging Changes

    • Many VC-related definitions  

    • Trinity Ventures   (HTML)    (PDF)

    • The Venture Capital Industry

    • From the Trenches: Wisdom from Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists  

    • National Venture Capital Association 

    • Venture Impact 2004--Venture Capital Benefits to the U.S. Economy

    • The Latest Venture Capital Numbers....And Angels on the Rise

    • "Judy Collins" Looks at Startups--From Both Sides Now (Gerry Langeler)  (HTML)   (PDF)

    • Presenting to Venture Capital Firms- “Running the Gauntlet”

    • Twenty Questions You Will be Asked by VCs – If You Get That Far

    • Ten Steps to Securing Venture Capital

    • Three Keys to Obtaining Venture Capital  

    • Dreams to Dollars - An Introduction to Venture Capital

    • Misconceptions About Venture Capitalists

    • Grab A VC's Attention...While You've Got It

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17. Angels

    • Angel Investors  

    • Where are all the Angel Investors?  

    • An Introduction to Angel Investing

    • Angel Funding:  Perspectives from Both Sides of the Table

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18. IPO's

    • The Road to Wall Street

    • Strategies for Going Public

    • Gerry Langeler Presentation (HTML)  (PDF)

    • IPOs That Soar Often Turn into Losers

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19. Innovation and Creativity

    • Invention, Innovation and Product Development

    • Building Competitive Advantage Through Innovation

    • Innovation - The New Reality for National Prosperity

    • Where do High-Tech Commercial Innovations Come From?

    • Appropriability and Profiting from Innovation

    • Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    • From Early Stage to the Next Stage:  Accelerating Growth Through Innovation and Partnerships

    • The Innovation Radar:  Perspectives to Date  

    • Open Innovation: Renewing Topline Growth

    • Focusing Innovation:  Putting Creativity in Service to Economic Returns (Geoffrey Moore)

    • Mind Methaphor - Brains, Business and Insights Into Innovation (Tina Seelig)

    • Creative Thinking Smog Test

    • Failure is Glorious

    • "Mosh Pits" of Creativity

    • Kickstart Your Creativity

    • The Learning-Doing Gap:  An Interview with Robert I. Sutton

    •  Project Innovation - An Example from IDEO

    • Step Out... or Get Stepped On

    • Weird Ideas That Work

    • Building an Innovation Engine

    • Innovation Self-Diagnostic Tool

    • Radical Innovation

    • Managing Radical Innovation:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    • The Spirit of Innovation:  What's Hot and What's Not

    • Research and Innovation Systems for High Tech Commercial Innovations

    • Interview for Innovation

    • Swarms of Innovation

     

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20. Biotechnology

    • Entrepreneur's Guide to a Biotech Start-Up

    • Patient Capital: Improving the Lives of Millions--The Vital Role of Venture Capital in Life Science Innovation

    • The Investment Decision--The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma

    • Best of Biotech:  get your business started!

    • A Revolution in R&D - How Genomics and Genetics Are Transforming the Biopharmaceutical Industry

    • A Versatile Cell Line Raises Scientific Hopes, Legal Questions

    • The Business of Stem Cells

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21. High Technology

    • Top Ten Enduring Elements of High-Technology Entrepreneurship (Tom Byers, Stanford)

    • Introduction to Entrepreneurship in the Region (HTML)  (PDF)

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22. Business Model

    • What's Your Business Model?

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23. Small Business Innovation Research Programs (SBIR)

    • Assessing Small Business Research Programs  (HTML)  (PDF)

    • DoD SBIR/STTP Fast Track

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24. Entrepreneurship Education

    • Learning How to Start a Startup

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25. On-Line Resources

    • Council for Entrepreneurial Development - A non-profit organization helping entrepreneurs in the Research Triangle area of NC

    • TruePilot Venture Capital: A start-up stage venture capital and consulting firm founded by Michael Brader-Araje.

    • EntreWorld - An entrepreneur resource web site, articles on all entrepreneurial issues

    • National Venture Capital Association  

    • Business Plan Information Site  

    • Ewing Marion Kauffman Center For Entrepreneurship Philanthropic center for entrepreneurship with articles and other resources for entrepreneurs  

    • Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence The Center promotes entrepreneurship and houses its own incubator programs. Offers programs and seminars to help entrepreneurs.  

    • The Small Business Association Many resources on starting a new business from books to seminars to loan forms.  

    • National Business Incubation Association Information on business incubators across the country

    • Inc. Magazine Web site Entrepreneurial articles, tips and an online store 

    • CEOExpress.com A business portal with links to hundreds of business sites. Built for CEO's and busy executives to get news and information.  

    •  VentureOne Bringing entrepreneurs and venture capitalists together. 

    • PlanCentral - supply chain management site

    • www.sbaonline.sba.gov/

    • http://startup.wsj.com

    • http://www.entrepreneur.com

     

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26. OGI Student Papers

    • Evolution of Venture Capital in Israel ( Inbar Klier) (HTML) (PDF)

    • Venture Valuation of Angel and Seed Companies (Darien Kusler)

    • Corporate Venturing (Ernest Walston)

    • How to Value Start-Ups and Emerging Companies (Amit Bapat)

    • Financial Options for Startups and Emerging Companies (Ajay Garg)

    • Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Environment in India (Kumar Gounder)

    • Knowledge as Intellectual Property (Gary Schultz)  (HTML) (PDF)

    • Fostering Innovation in Large Companies (HTML)  (PDF)

    • Emerging Company Investment Opportunities in China (PDF)

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27. Weblogs

    • www.ventureblog.com

    • allensblog.typepad.com

    • ross.typepad.com

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28. Podcasts

    • www.venturevoice.com

    • www.podtech.net

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29. Videos

    • Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs

    • Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Program

    • University of Wisconsin Teaching Kit - Videos and Web Resources

    • STVP Educators Corner

    • MIT World

    • InternationalEntrepreneurship.com

    • Cornell e-Clips

    • Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

    • Active Capital - Entrepreneur Videos

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