Resources for Entrepreneurs

Resources for Entrepreneurs

• Accetta Group - Focus: performs International financial, due diligence, fraud, banking, know your customer and background, construction oversite.
• Alameda Center for Environmental Technologies - Focus: Incubating new environmentally-related businesses and transferring technologies from the national laboratories
• Amicus, LLC - Focus: strategic business advice to early-stage companies focused on the Internet, with an emphasis on information services, media, e-commerce and Internet software
• Angel Investor News - Focus: raise the level of information about private investment, technology trends, financing events and additional resources for the investor and entrepreneur.
• Angel Legacy - Focus: matches financial advisors and accredited angel investors seeking private equity investments with entrepreneurs seeking capital funding for early-stage and startup business ventures.
• Angelweb - Focus: support and aid small business and entrepreneurs.
• The Anti-Venture Capital Guide - Focus: For entrepreneurs who want to take their companies as far along the growth path as possible without resorting to outside capital.
• Arkansas Capital Corporation - Focus: financing and economic development for small businesses in Arkansas
• Arshiya Ventures - Edits Executive Summaries of start-ups, assists start-ups to secure venture capital funding, and develops start-up business strategy.
• Asset Alternatives - Find news, information, and resources covering corporate venturing.
• Aston Technical Consulting - Focus: UK consultancy for optical design, project management and due diligence services.
• Athena Capital - Focus: develops strategic business plans, financial models, road shows and investor communication strategies for clients seeking equity or debt financing.
• Atlantic Conferences - Focus: presents high-level symposia on mezzanine finance for private equity financiers involved in leveraged finance in the US and Europe.
• Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation (AEF) - Fosters relationships between entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations, so that Austin can benefit from the strength of both.
• Austin Technology Incubator - Offers advice to early-stage, high-risk companies.
• Australian Technology Showcase - Focus: identifies leading examples of Australian technology with potential to penetrate global markets and promotes them to potential customers, marketeers, licensees and investors.
• Australian Venture Capital Industry Information - Focus: Pollitecon Publications for the Australian and New Zealand venture capital industries.
• BARTA, Bay Area Regional Technology Alliance - non-profit consortium encouraging technology based economic development in the SF Bay Area
• Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania - Focus: non-profit supporting the development of technology-based enterprises and the diversification of the region's economy.
• Beneficial Trust SA - Focus: Swiss company providing due dilligence, research, consulting and management services of a discreet and specialized nature to attorneys, banks, corporations, governments and individuals worldwide.
• Be-Your-Own-Boss.com - Distribute your business plan to 1800 venture capital firms.
• BizFin.com - Focus: business and finance website to help entrepreneurs bring capital and deals together around the world.
• Bizposter.com - Helps investors seek high-tech start-ups, and start-ups raise capital.
• BlackBean Communications - Focus: Canada's venture capital, business, real estate and online shopping opportunities listings.
• Bodega Partners - Focus: strategic, management advisory services to software and other high technology growth companies
• Brian Koslow - E-zine on business ideas, quiz for entrepreneurial I.Q. and a millionaires book full of inspiration.
• Brian Tracy International - Focus: talks and seminars on leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategy with ideas and strategies that can be applied immediately to get results in every area.
• Bridge Business Group - Focus: management consulting firm working with growth-oriented companies to develop and implement business strategies.
• BridgeTech-Asia - Focus: assist North American and European technology companies with cross-border venture capital consulting in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
• Bright Idea - Focus: delivers business planning, research and strategy services to early-stage ventures.
• Business Plan Services - Focus: professional service exclusively dedicated to assisting with all aspects of effective business planning.
• Business Plan Software - Focus: resources needed for writing a business plan including examples, templates and detailed explanations.
• Business Plans and Consulting - Focus: business plan services, business plan descriptions and informative articles.
• Business plans by Garner Associates - Our business plans deliver success! Whether an organisation's strategy is start up, acquisition, reconstruction or the launch of a new product we have the team and experience to help.
• Business Seeds Newsletter - A print newsletter supporting small business owners offering information on everything from marketing and promoting to living the freelance life.
• BusinessandLaw - Focus: resources for business planning, capital (including venture capital), investing, joint ventures, international finance, securities, taxation, expenses and billing.
• BusinessFinance.com - Focus: business capital search used by over 5,000 other business sites' capital search engines, including major names such as Business Week and Inc magazines.
• businessmatchmaker.com - Focus: helps entrepreneurs, business owners and executives find the business services they need to ensure success.
• CALT Encyclopedia - A collection of resources related to entrepreneurship.
• CapForge Consulting - Focus: connects companies with over forty capital sources through personal introductions and can provide consulting services to companies that are close to fundable.
• Capital de Risque - Web site about seeking financing for risky venture capital for individuals and for enterprises. Business opportunities.English and French.
• Capitol Rush - Focus: comprehensive information service for consumers, students, capital seekers, capital providers, financial investment consultants, small business owners, consumers.
• Carolina Entrepreneurship Club - University of North Carolina - Focus: articles on business, entrepreneurship, marketing, and web marketing.
• CELCEE - The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education is an online collection of articles, videos, and websites related to entrepreneurship education.
• The Center for Software Development - Supports growth of software companies by providing self-service multi-vendor test labs and business development seminars
• The Chesapeake Group - Focus: corporate development and financial advisory services to technology-driven, entrepreneurial companies.
• Churchill Club - Silicon Valley public affairs forum
• Codesta - Focus: technology due diligence and technology management and development services tailored to enhance and validate private equity and corporate investments.
• Connecticut Venture Group - Focus: voluntary professional association dedicated to supporting investment by providing a network and forum for those involved in creating high-growth enterprises
• Conneighton Group - Focus: helps emerging and expanding enterprises to focus their market strategies and build profitable operations.
• Connexx Club International - Focus: growing businesses, links investors with entrepreneurs.
• Corven - Focus: specializes in corporate venturing providing experience and resources necessary to start new businesses.
• Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) - Focus: fostering the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina
• Council For Urban Economic Development - Focus: excellence and leadership in urban economic development
• Creative Capital Works - Venture capital resourcing, business and marketing plans, business strategy development and evolution, complete consulting services.
• DaimlerChrysler Venture - Focus: invests venture capital in telematics, e-commerce, m-commerce and software development companies that have innovative business plans.
• DealFlow - Focus: free resource for entrepreneurs to attract angel investors.
• DealPipe - DealPipe Venture Exchange - DealPipe is a free listing exchange and business resource that connects Entrepreneurs and Business Sellers with a broad network of Investors, Business Buyers and Transaction Partners.
• Decima Ventures, Inc. - Focus: generate, cultivate and validate innovative ideas to launch market-leading companies.
• Development Capital Exchange - Focus: Britain's three million, mostly under-capitalised and debt funded independent businesses - and their owners - to facilitate 'business angel', merger, acquisition and other inter-business transactions.
• Diffusion Capital - Focus: provide advice to startup companies in the areas of financing, business development, marketing/branding, and the procurement of capital.
• Dolphin Ventures - Entrepreneurial consulting firm that provides services to early stage Silicon Valley technology ventures
• Dreams to Market - Focus: free directory and resource center for inventors and businesses having to do with maturing new technologies and turning concepts into entrepreneurial successes.
• DYTREM - Focus: solutions to increase your returns on intellectual capital investments.
• eCitySuites - We offer executive suite office spaces, designed from the ground up for technology companies, new media companies and Internet start-ups.
• eGlean.com - Research your market and your competitors for information to use when submitting your early-stage company to venture capital firms.
• ENPRIS - Focus: specializing in the valuations of intangible assets, intellectual property and brands.
• The Enterprise Network - Not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting new business and economic growth in the greater Silicon Valley
• Enterprise North Florida Corporation - Focus: not-for-profit with mission of nurturing job growth in North Florida's high-technology and manufacturing industries
• The Entree Network - Focus: advisor network of retired and active Fortune 500 executives providing relationships, contacts, networking and access.
• Entrepreneur Opportunities Network - Focus: business opportunities; chat room message board; share ideas with other entrepreneurs.
• Entrepreneurial Fellows Center, University of Pittsburgh - Focus: provide management education programs that will enable the leaders of our region's established businesses to grow their firms to their true potential.
• The Entrepreneurs Coalition - University of North Carolina - Focus: non-profit dedicated to building an international network of entrepreneurs.
• Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas - Focus: promotes philanthropy for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial practices for the non-profit sector.
• Entrepreneur's Partner - Focus: partners with entreprenuers to provide management, financial, legal and professional services and consulting.
• EntreWorld - Focus: resources for entrepreneurs
• Environmental Capital Network - Nonprofit facilitating finance of companies commercializing environmental and energy technologies.
• Equilant Venture Advisors - Focus: presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and must-win customer sales.
• Equity Positions - A venture capital portal search engine.
• e-START - Canada's post-secondary student entrepreneur homepage.
• Executive Venture Partners - Focus: consulting services to new venture, corporate, and academic research clients in lab to market, human and financial capital.
• eXL New Media - Focus: NYC based company specializing in custom website design, business development, special event websites and marketing.
• Expert-Zine - Focus: free, monthly e-zine published by Venture Planning Associates for entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and business experts.
• EzInfoFind Venture Capital Database - Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory. Contacts and information for over 4100 Investors throughout the world. Free Download.
• Financial Broker Relations - Focus: expertise on going public, reverse mergers, investor relations and raising equity.
• First Principal Royalty Corporation - Focus: business consulting services(private placements) to entrepreneurs seeking funding specializing in structuring 506 Reg D offerings.
• Florida Venture Forum - Focus: non-profit support group providing entrepreneurial companies with technical assistance and identifing sources of venture capital
• 3FOLD Equity partners - Focus: Consulting, venture capital and third party services.
• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs - Focus: foster, support and promote entrepreneurship for women in technology and health care businesses
• Forum Frigate - Discussion forum and live chat pertaining to venture capital.
• Foundation for Enterprise Development - non-profit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and executives use equity compensation, employee ownership & stock options
• Founders Forum - Focus: non-profit dedicated to the needs of entrepreneurs in Central Florida
• Foundry Ventures - Focus: facilitates venture capital partnerships with private entrepreneurial companies.
• Fulcrum Partners Ltd - Focus: training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets.
• FundingPost - Focus: raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors.
• Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory - Focus: in print and on CD-ROM is the most comprehensive guide available to private investment management firms.
• GFS Ventures - Focus: nationwide broker service for grants, start-ups, SBA and venture loans.
• Going Public Now - Focus: clean fully reporting public shells for reverse mergers as alternative to IPO.
• GoPublicToday.com - How to raise money, venture capital, direct public offering, 504 public offering, going public, and small business financing programs.
• GoPublicUSA.com - Information on the NASDAQ OTC Bulletin Board or OTCBB, initial and direct public offering, DPO and IPO, reverse mergers, public shells and venture capital.
• Green Park Partners - Focus: business plan development for European technology and Internet start-ups.
• The Grimaldi Group - Provides capital and management services to entrepreneurs during start-up.
• Growthink - Focus: develops business plans, financial models and investor presentations for ventures seeking growth capital.
• H.A. Incorporated - Focus: obtaining venture capital, creating business plans, business consulting, incorporations, and non-profit formations
• Harcourt Business Systems - Focus: UK business plan software by Harcourt Business Systems.
• HCM Solutions Asia Pacific - Focus: consulting firm specialized in providing consulting talent for enterprise systems design, implementation, documentation, training and maintenance.
• Help and support to grow your small business - One-stop business support combined with news and information, search and buy online options, the complete package for busy entrepreneurs.
• The Hulsey Foundation - Focus: Next generation of entrepreneurial leaders with a purpose and vision to leverage their inventive genius, willingness to risk, and resolve for the benefit of themselves and others.
• iBreakfast.com - Networking meetings for entrepreneurs seeking angel capital and business contacts.
• Idea Cafe - Small Business Gathering Place® for business community, ideas, planning, information and advice.
• IE Consulting - Focus: information solutions for the venture capital and private equity industry.
• The Illinois Coalition - Non-profit providing information, resources and services needed to help start and grow successful technology-driven companies in Illinois
• Inc.com - Focus: magazine with ways to attract venture capitalists and private investors to fund your company.
• Indigenous Nations Federal Charter Association - Focus: federally chartered tribal corporation that works within Indian Country to attract capital and provide a wide range of legal, financial, and consulting services to Tribes and tribal businesses.
• InnovaNauts - Focus: venture capital and innovation web digest, reporting on ventures and technologies at interesting points in their lifecycles.
• InnovOx - Focus: provides business consultancy and advisory services to commercialise intellectual property and ideas from universities and academia, corporate research and venturing and inventor entrepreneurs.
• International Business Incubator - Focus: assist international companies opening a Silicon Valley office and train incubator staff, meet delegations, provide internships, and market research.
• International Science and Technology Center - Focus: coordinates efforts of governments, organizations, and private industries to provide opportunities for Commonwealth of Independent States weapons scientists to redirect their talents to peaceful science
• Internet Inventions - Focus: helps young startups with raising funding, marketing, sales, engineerning, and management.
• InterVenture Forum - Business development and support services for startup companies.
• IPOonRamp.com - Focus: educational site for initial public offerings, venture capital and corporate finance.
• John V. McCoy - Writes business plans for startup enterprises.
• Knowledge@Wharton - Bi-weekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources.
• Koffler Ventures - Consultants, coaches and virtual managers for start-ups.
• Kremen, Father & Partners - Focus: early-stage corporate tactics and strategy.
• Lazy Entrepreneur - Publish your ideas for businesses and products.
• Linkability - Focus: strategic planning, financing and marketing services, expansion and refinancing.
• Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance (larta) - Focus: strengthen and sustain the region's technology base through direct assistance, networking, and information
• Los Angeles Venture Association - Focus: supports the development of emerging growth and middle market companies in Southern California
• Loudwater Capital Corp. - Financing through Managed/Leveraged Buy-Outs, Corporate Finance, Business Succession Services to Small & Mid Sized private or public companies.
• Mainstreetweek.com - Offers venture capital information via the Internet and a syndicated television show.
• Marcus Venture Consulting - Works with early stage technology and technology-related ventures to bridge the risk gap, and help entrepreneurs and financers achieve their goals.
• Marlin & Associates - Focus: specialized investment banking advisory and consulting firm providing transactions advice and strategic consulting to small and middle-market firms that provide content, software, or information technology.
• Matchco.co.uk - Aims to provide the essential online interface between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
• MedSuds - Focus: help people build and enhance their network of contacts in the medtech, biotech and life sciences markets.
• Michigan Venture Capital Association - Focus: provide press releases and membership information for the Michigan Venture Capital Association.
• MicroCapExperts.com - Focus: database of venture capitalists including information on IPO's, going public, reverse mergers, financial public relations, investor relations and interesting micro cap companies.
• Mid-Atlantic Venture Association - Focus: forum for interaction amongst private equity providers, their service providers, and entrepreneurs in the Mid-Atlantic region
• The Middleband Group - Consulting firm focusing on helping early-stage companies to define and execute their go-to-market strategies and mid-stage companies to re-calibrate existing ones.
• MIT Stanford Venture Lab - Non profit organization founded to foster the growth and success of entrepreneurial ventures by connecting emerging ideas, technology and people.
• MIT Enterprise Forum - Focus: non-profit organization based at MIT to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing innovative and technology-oriented companies.
• MIT Enterprise Forum at UT-Dallas - Focus: constructive analysis of emerging companies.
• MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel - Focus: a not-for-profit providing advice, support and educational services to innovative and technology based companies of all sizes
• MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City, Inc. - Focus: not-for-profit dedicated to promoting and strengthening the entrepreneurial process and assisting entrepreneurs and investors in emerging and growth companies that are technologically oriented
• MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest, Inc. - Focus: not-for-profit to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing companies which primarily have a strong technology orientation
• MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore - Focus: non-profit organization dedicated to the entrepreneur community of the greater Washington & Baltimore area
• MIT Entrepreneurs - Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Entrepreneurs Club (The MIT e-club).
• Monadnock Associates - Focus: helps start-up businesses succeed by providing them with strategy adjustment, capital raising, and hands-on execution.
• Montana Associated Technology Roundtables - Focus: promote economic development in Montana by bringing together the network of entrepreneurs and business professionals.
• Moriel Finance - Focus: arrange and place financial assistance on a global scale for sound and viable transactions for all types of financial requests.
• Multiple Streams of Income - Focus: official website of New York Times best-selling author Robert G. Allen.
• MyCapital.com - Focus: free comprehensive venture capital library and web application to help companies raise capital fast.
• National Science Board - Venture Capital and High-Technology Enterprise - Focus: overview of venture capital and high-technology in a 1998 National Science Board report
• Netpreneur Exchange - Focus: nonprofit organization created to advance Greater Washington D.C. entrepreneurs developing or delivering products or services over the Internet and other new media and the businesses they create
• New Era Partners - Focus: provides investor due diligence, business and technology consultative services to small and mid-size technology firms as well as the venture capital community.
• New Jersey Technology Council - Focus: supports and promotes technology within New Jersey
• New Mexico Private Investors - Investment focus: group of angel investors looking for high growth technology companies.
• New VentureZ Business Solutions, Inc. - Specializes in preparing strategic business plans for emerging and expanding companies.
• NYNMA Angel Investors Program - Focus: matches promising start-up companies with experienced Angel investors to facilitate the growth of New York's new media industry.
• OddTrack - Focus: service linking entrepreneurs with venture capital firms looking for new ventures to fund.
• Ohio Venture Association - Focus: forum for the exchange of ideas on entrepreneurship and approaches to venture development in Northeast Ohio
• Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum - Focus: opening doors for Oregon entrepreneurs and improving the climate for emerging, growth-oriented Oregon companies - a chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum
• PlacementTracker - Focus: research, reporting and analysis on private placements by public companies.
• PlanWare - Focus: Business plan and financial planning software, as well as white papers on business planning, financial planning and strategy development
• Postidea.com - Focus: business financing marketplace for entrepreneurs and investors.
• Private Equity Week - Focus: daily news about the venture capital market, including deal and fund analysis.
• PrivateInvestor.com - Private investment introduction service helping companies raise private capital.
• Production Finance International - Focus: financing growth for entrepreneurs with purchasing order financing, import, export and domestic letters of credit.
• Proma Investment - Focus: investment database providing contacts to investors, financiers, venture capital firms.
• PureTech Ventures - Focus: identifies scientific breakthroughs from research institutions and provides management support and funding.
• Real Options - Resources for those interested in valuing start-up venture firms, or growth options in general.
• Red Herring Online Magazine - Focus: trends in technology and the companies driving them
• Retailreality - Focus: public forum board for anyone in retail or interested in retail.
• Reverse Mergers Network - Assists small to medium size companies that desire to obtain public status by reverse merger with public shells.
• Rockwood Partners - Focus: management services, technology consulting, and e-business development services to small and medium sized companies in a variety of industries.
• The Sable Lion Group - Focus: private-equity holding company focused on cultivating emerging growth companies; primarily technology related.
• San Diego Ventureplex - Focus: specialized resource provider for start-up enterprises and their entrepreneur founders.
• San Jose Software Business Cluster - Focus: non-profit incubator for software startups and emerging businesses
• SBA: Small Business Administration - Services provided by the U.S. Small Business Administration Offices and Partners
• SBDC - Small Business Development Centers - SBA program to provide management assistance to current and prospective small business owners
• Service Corps Of Retired Executives - nonprofit association dedicated to encouraging the formation, growth, and success of small business nationwide through counseling and mentor programs
• Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs - Organization dedicated to enabling high technology entrepreneurs to be successful by providing them with the real-world business knowledge, expertise, and contacts.
• Silicon Valley Bank - Reputation for excellence and innovation in meeting the needs of emerging companies.
• siliconindia - Focus: global source magazine for business and technology.
• Small Business Forum - Help medium, small and micro businesses create structures and control mechanisms for operating successfully in a business environment.
• Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) - Provides equity financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries, emerging markets and in countries undergoing economic transition.
• Smart B2B Portal - Focus: finding and posting business opportunities, organized by industry.
• socalTECH.com - Focus: Directory of high tech venture capital, incubators, companies, organizations and others in the Southern California area (Tech Coast/Digital Coast)
• Social Venture Network - Place where socially conscious entrepreneurs can meet, teach, support and create new ventures
• Southern California Venture Network - Focus: networking group helping companies move from the concept stage to the revenue stage.
• Southwest Michigan First - Focus: community partnership of leaders in private business, education and government to assist new and expanding enterprises.
• Springboard Business Plans - Focus: business plans written or reviewed for both new and growing companies including financial projections developed based on realistic, detailed assumptions.
• Star Holdings - Focus: funding and product launching services, specializing in the introduction of overseas companies to the US market.
• STARTech Technology Business Development Center - Focus: assistance to develop and support high-technology startup companies in the North Texas area
• Startup Report - If you are an entrepreneur seeking angel or venture capital funding for your business the Startup Report can help.
• Strategy Consulting Limited - UK - Focus: assists companies regarding strategic business plans, marketing strategies and other critical business functions
• Symbios Group - Focus: existing companies without an Internet presence or companies who are not fulfilling their potential and generate an infrastructure.
• Tampa Bay Black Business Investment Corporation - Facilitates the development and growth of African-American owned businesses in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties.
• T-broker - Focus: services for start-up companies and entrepreneurs wishing to take their company to market.
• Techfarm, Inc. - Focus: starting, financing, growing, organizing and taking public semiconductor and software startups
• Technology Ventures Scotland - Focus: guide to the commercialisation of science and technology research in Scotland.
• Thames Valley Investment Network - Focus: links investors to companies with high growth potential who are seeking funding from £50,000 to £1million.
• Tim Christoffersen - Provides acting CFO, IPO mentoring, corporate positioning, financial modeling, venture capital, partnerships, business modeling, support services.
• TopStartups.com - Focus: information about startups and entrepreneur resources
• The Tropical Group - Management service providers to technology start-ups.
• UK Financial Services - Focus: free advice on financial related matters relating to corporate recovery and debt advice, accountancy, audit, tax and insolvency procedures.
• Updata Venture Partners - Focus: participated in a significant number of industry segments and market dynamics, giving us a valuable perspective into the technology investment life cycle.
• Vancouver Enterprise Forum - Focus: non-profit to foster the development and advancement of technology-based enterprises in the Lower Mainland of B.C.
• VC Buzz - Focus: Internet venture capital information network.
• VC Experts - Focus: complete online reference manual on all aspects of venture capital, including forms, annotations and polls.
• VC Locator - Offers a free venture capital directory, an online search to venture capital firms, plus investor backed business plans, Powerpoint presentations, terms sheets and financial models.
• VCgate Venture Capital Directory - 3800 Investment firms. Contact information and One-Touch emailing.
• Ventanis - Focus: portfolio monitoring and management software for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
• Venture Associates - Financing information for entrepreneurs.
• Venture Association of New Jersey News - Published quarterly by New Jersey Business Forums Inc., the umbrella organization for Venture Association New Jersey and New Media Association New Jersey.
• Venture Bound - Focus: private funding resource that proactively optimizes entrepreneurial offerings.
• Venture Capital Directory - Providing articles on venture capital, incubators and IPO's and includes directory of firms, lenders and private equity sources.
• Venture Capital List - Focus: promotion of entrepreneurship and venture capital in the San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Jose area.
• Venture Capital Software - Providers of Venture Capital management software that simplifies the process of venture capital investment.
• Venture Capital Strategies - Focus: prepares entrepreneurs or companies seeking investment capital and unites them with investors.
• Venture Credit - Investment focus: channel investor's capital to small and mid-sized companies that exhibit emerging technologies, first class management, sustained profitability, positive cash flow and high growth rates.
• Venture Factoring - Offers venture factoring as an alternative to venture capital financing.
• The Venture Forum - Focus: promotes and enhances the success of entrepreneurial ventures, emerging businesses, and the growth of entrepreneurship in central Virginia
• Venture Informer - Free personalized newsletter allowing subscribers to select venture and private equity news by industry, location and company stage.
• Venture Planning Associates - Focus: consulting services for business finance and funding strategies for entrepreneurs
• Venture Strategy Group - Focus: early-stage capital and strategy consulting firm for building branded businesses
• Venture Valuation - Focus: specializes in the assessment and valuation of growing companies.
• Venturedome - Online news service for the British venture capital industry providing users with a source of information, comment and analysis of the UK venture capital industry.
• VentureReporter.net - Focus: tracks every Venture Capital deal and has free search and email updates and also supports VCARDs.
• VentureWorthy.com - Focus: comparison to other companies also seeking venture capital.
• Venue TBA - Asia's meeting place for entrepreneurs and investors.
• Versyns Ventures - Focus: business strategy and planning to growing businesses, start-ups, SMEs and larger private and public companies.
• Vick & Company - Focus: venture advisory firm specializing in finance and strategic planning, creating plans and proposals and provide analytics and due diligence for venture investors.
• Virtual Capital Group - Assists start-up and established enterprises with business and financial advice.
• Virtual Team - Provides end-to-end business acceleration services for high-tech start ups.
• Whitestone Associates - Global business development and transaction specialist serving small to mid-sized international and domestic clients.
• Wilkerson Associates - A financial consulting firm dedicated to helping the small and medium sized business achieve increased profitability and attract investment capital.
• Windhaus Associates - Focus: specialize in the analysis, research, writing and editing of business and marketing plans for small business start-ups.
• Winning Entrepreneurs - Winning Entrepreneurs: the 6 fundamentals of starting a company. Support for startups and entrepreneurs raising finance (angel and venture capital) and books by David Amis and Howard Stevenson.
• Worldhot.com - Provides a list of venture capital firms online.
• Young Entrepreneurs' Organization - Focus: a global non-profit educational organization for young entrepreneurs
• YoungEntrepreneur.com - Free resource for entrepreneurs worldwide.

Resources for Entrepreneurs