Startup Resources

The IU Libraries and ICO provides IU innovators and entrepreneurs with access to excellent resources designed for professionals, including market research databases like:

• IU Ventures
  • Pitchbook: Investment trends and transactions in private equity and venture capital sectors. For premier features, contact IU Ventures.
    
    
• ICO
  • BCC Research: Specialized market research reports covering healthcare, science, and technology sectors. (through ICO and Business School Library – contact)
  • PatSnap: Patent search for prior art, competitive technologies or licensing opportunities

Educational Resources for business plan development:

• How to Structure a Business Plan,
• How to Write a Great Business Plan
  Inc. Magazine
  Extensive resource to help you write and develop a well thought out business plan.
• Business Plan Basics presentation
  This slide deck from the MIT Course, The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans ( see class info for more), provides excellent examples and potential format and language to help you draft  your business plan. Content starts on slide 13.
• How to Write a Great Business Plan
  Harvard Business Review
  The essential elements of a business plans are consistent and constant. This article is still a great primer for anyone about to write a business plan.
• 22 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching to Investors
  Richard D Harroch, Neel Lilani and Kate O’Laughlin, Forbes
  Covers common mistakes made when pitching to investors and how to correct them.
• How to Successfully Pitch Your Business Idea to Investors
  Caroline Cummings, Bplans
  Compilation of pitch tips from expert entrepreneur and CEO of two successful tech startups.

• Startup coaching and assistance
  • Elevate Nexus and Elevate Origins
  • NSF iCorps Program - Midwest Node - Participation in the iCorps program enhances potential for SBIR/STTR funding.
  • gBeta
    
    
• Venture Studios
  • Boomerang Ventures
  • High Alpha
  • Next Studios
  • Elevate Origins: Regional startup bootcamp that helps entrepreneurs refine their business model and funding pitch.
  • Startup Rocket: A resource to help development of business plans, growth and funding plans from successful entrepreneurs.
  • Startup Tools from Steve Blank: Incredible collection of tools that covers founding/running a start-up, conducting market research, and building a web prototype.

• Goodwin Proctor - founders workbench
• Morrison Foerster Scale Up resources
• Perkins Cole- startupPerColator
  Free form-generation tools to keep costs low for startups.
• Cooley Go
• How to form an LLC in Indiana
• Startup Company Lawyer
  Yoichiro (“Yokum”) Taku, partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  Covers a broad range of legal issues faced by startups, including incorporation, founder issues, stock options, compensation, financing, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Legal Zoom

• IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center
  Basics about taxes and how to stay tax compliant.
• Starting a Business - IRS
  What new business owners need to know about federal taxes.
• Entrepreneurs: Stop Overpaying On Taxes - Forbes
• Four simple ways to save on your taxes as an entrepreneur

• IN Small Business Development Centre
  From no cost consulting to venture connections, Indiana’s SBDC team helps entrepreneurs start their business
• IHIF
  IHIF’s helps life science businesses enhance business networks, and advocates for member interests to grow Indiana’s health industry economy and reputation.
• US Small Business Administration
• Startup America Partnership
  Offers a coalition of mentors, advisors, funders, major corporations, and service providers to help entrepreneurs start and scale companies.
• The Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Resource Center
  Information on accounting and finance, business operations, human resources, marketing and sales, products and services and public policy.
• Why Startups Fail
  The Startup Genome project analyzed data from 3,200 companies and determined there are two things at the core of successful businesses: a good product and a large market for that product.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office
Comprehensive site containing information about applying for patents, filing for trademarks, searching for patents and trademarks and more.

Google Patents
Searchable database of United States Patent and Trademark Office patents and patent applications.

IP Litigation Update
Blog offers insights into new developments in copyright, trademark, and trade secrets, with a particular focus on how these developments apply to technology companies. Content comes from Perkins Coie’s Intellectual Property Litigation attorneys.

The IP Law Blog
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