Ongoing Resources
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Title: ENTR 407 Entrepreneurship Hour Instructor: Doug Neal Description: This weekly lecture series invites successful and influential entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders to speak to students about their personal experiences founding, financing, and managing a startup venture. |
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Title: ENTR 408 Patent Law for Entrepreneurs Instructor: Jeff Schox Description: Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting inventions during product development, determining invention patentability, avoiding infringement, and leveraging a patent as a business asset. This course, taught by Jeffrey Schox of the Schox Patent Group, addresses these four concerns. Students will learn how to read a patent, capture an invention, conduct a patentability search, avoid infringement, write a provisional application, and build a patent portfolio that attracts investors. |
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Host of Ideas is a crowdfunding platform for influential investors and promising startups. We create a virtual highway between our crowd of influential private investors and our flow of high-quality ideas, startups and early-stage ventures. We create that critical liquidity of good quality funding for startups and of good quality deal-flow for private early-stage capitalists. |
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Storytelling Tips for Entrepreneurs from Stanford's eCorner Entrepreneurs are in the storytelling business because incredible technology alone is not enough to win the hearts, minds and wallets of investors and customers. Here are three videos revealing elegant and innovative ways companies use storytelling to build brands and relationships. |
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Michigan Law Entrepreneurship Clinic The clinic represents University of Michigan student-led entrepreneurial ventures who are beyond the idea stage of development. At certain times during the semester, we also offer educational workshops on various legal issues impacting entrepreneurs to students who are at a very early stage and may not be ready for direct legal services. Clients may include U-M student-led businesses, student founders, or student inventors. The clinic will also represent U-M alumni concerning technology invented as a student at U-M. Note: The clinic will generally not represent ventures concerning University-held intellectual property. Therefore, if your technology was invented or jointly-invented by a U-M employee, you should consult U-M's Office of Technology Transfer for advice concerning your technology. |
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MLibrary Entrepreneurship Research Guide This subject guide provides a starting point for research in Entrepreneurship. |
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GBI Research (Global Business Intelligence) GBI Research is a market-leading provider of “best-in-class” business intelligence reports, supported by outstanding customer service.Our in-house team of over 400 analysts are spread across the UK, the US and India; most have MBAs, MDs, PhDs or business degrees and significant industry experience.GBI Research covers both established and fast-developing markets and issues, working closely with clients to identify and target unmet information needs. |
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The Kresge Business Administration Library at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business offers a list of general marketing databases, available to all U-M Ann Arbor users. |
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If you intend to make, use, or sell an invention, you should find out whether someone else has created something like it already. The University of Michigan Library offers a number of resources related to patent searches. |
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Bizdom is an entrepreneurship accelerator that helps entrepreneurs launch, fund and grow innovative, tech-based startups in Detroit and Cleveland. The application period is NOW OPEN for the Summer 2012 Bizdom Detroit and Bizdom Cleveland accelerator(Summer 2012 accelerator begins July 30)! |
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Ann Arbor Angels The Ann Arbor Angels is a membership organization of Angel investors that invest in the greater Ann Arbor, Michigan area. A2A members look for companies that can achieve rapid growth in large markets. Some of our criteria include:
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Arbor Partners Venture Fund Arbor Partners provides access to long-term capital, experienced support and an extensive network of strategic contacts to entrepreneurs who share our commitment to build tomorrow's great technology companies. |
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Arboretum Ventures Arboretum's investment team believes that healthcare will continue to prove a fertile market for successful, early-stage venture capital investing. We are interested in companies that:
Additionally, we emphasize technologies that can be developed and commercialized in a highly capital-efficient manner. |
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Blue Chip Venture Company Blue Chip is committed to helping our partners build lasting enterprises. We earn management's respect by being a creative and flexible partner who understands that time is precious and speed is essential. And we're proud to be the investor partner that management calls first when seeking advice, support or guidance. |
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Chrysalis Ventures Chrysalis identifies and nurtures promising early-stage companies poised for growth. To these investments, we contribute not just capital but hands-on experience and assistance. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs build great businesses and deliver, as a result, outstanding returns to our investors. |
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EDF Ventures EDF focuses on young companies that are developing breakthrough technologies to address large, well recognized problems or transform existing markets. We understand that the individuals pioneering these kinds of solutions require far more than just capital. They need venture investors who are committed for the long haul - true partners who can help entrepreneurs and founders transform their vision into strong, profitable companies. For us, there's nothing more rewarding than partnering with these exceptional people to bring important new technologies to market. |
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Seneca Partners/Endurance Ventures Endurance directly invests or will assemble necessary capital for both private and public companies to execute appropriate growth opportunities. Typical Metrics include:
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Human- Centered Design Toolkit A free innovation guide for social enterprises and NGOs worldwide |
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Frankel Commercialization Fund The Frankel Commercialization Fund (FCF) is a pre-seed investment fund established to identify and accelerate the commercialization of ideas generated within the University community and the surrounding area. The team adopts a hands-on approach to investing that leverages the talents and resources available at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan to make a real impact for the entrepreneur and the University. |
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MacBeedon Partners L.L.C. MacBeedon Partners, LLC is a pre-seed investment and management firm focused on creating technology companies and jobs in the Great Lakes Region. We promote the creation and growth of new technology ventures by providing both funding and entrepreneurial leadership. We believe in the importance of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit, and play an active role in boosting excitement about new business opportunities in our region. |
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Michigan Venture Capital Association The MVCA is a non-profit trade organization designed to bring together venture capital industry participants in the state of Michigan. The organization's mission is to grow and sustain a vibrant venture capital community in Michigan. Membership includes private venture capital funds, corporate venture capital funds, private equity firms, angel investors, and entrepreneurial infrastructure participants. |
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North Coast Technology Investors North Coast is committed to forging lasting partnerships. We value honesty, integrity and fairness in all business relationships. We strive to be direct and straightforward in all our business. We hold ourselves to a high standard of conduct and expect the same of others. We believe this philosophy enhances the long-term value of our franchise. |
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RPM Ventures RPM, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and founded in 2000, is an early-stage venture capital firm with a unique investing strategy and core platform that deliver repeatable, consistent value to our portfolio companies and our investors. RPM has two primary types of investments:
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Steve Blanks Tools and Blogs for Entrepreneurs
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Venture Investors LLC Venture Investors' investment strategy is to focus on identifying and commercializing industry-leading technologies developed by some of our nation's top research institutions. The firm has backed 19 companies that have been founded to commercialize innovations licensed from leading research institutions throughout the Midwest. Venture Investors is the leader in financing companies that have licensed technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has invested in companies formed from technologies licensed from six other major research universities in the Midwest. |
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Wolverine Venture Fund The Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) is a multi-million dollar venture capital fund operated directly out of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, enabling entrepreneurs to realize their business dreams. The Fund invests with the active involvement of MBA students, faculty assistance, and an advisory board composed of professional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The WVF is the largest, most active University-based venture fund of its type in the country. The Fund's contributions have been featured in numerous professional publications, including Business Week. |
