Fostering Student Innovation

• BRS: Business Plan Samples
• Microsoft Small Business Center: How to Write a Business Plan
• Moot Coop: Fundable Business Plans
• SCORE: Business Plan for a Startup Business
• SBA: Write a Business Plan
• YES: Yale SOM – Entrepreneurial Business Planning

Incorporation

• The Company Corporation
• Active Filings
• My New Company

Patents and Copyrights

• US Copyright Office
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• US Patent Law (USC Title 35)
• Free Patents Online
• Google Patents – Search engine for patents
• Wolf Greenfield – Intellectual Property Q&A Booklets

General

• Inc. Magazine: Law and Taxation Resource Center
• NOLO -Legal Self-help
• Tanned Feet- The Entrepreneur's Help Page

General

• Brown Rudnick: Glossary of Venture Capital and IPO Terms
• National Association of Small Business Investment Companies
• National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
• Venture-Preneurs Network
• Inc. Magazine Angel Investors Directory

Angels and VCs

• AngelDeals.com
• Angel Soft
• vFinance, Inc.
• The Funded

Local Investors

• Angel Investor Forum
• Connecticut Angel Guild
• Connecticut Innovations
• Connecticut Venture Group
• Launch Capital
• Signal Lake

Pitching

• Business Insider: How to Pitch VCs
• Tech Crunch Elevator Pitches

• Cornell University eClips
• E-Corner at Stanford
• HBS Entrepreneurship Resources
• MIT Enterprise Forum

• Gotta Mentor
• Journey Page

 
Find out more about YEI and our student startups!

Check out the videos below:

• Hello Yale Fellow!
• YEI Summer Fellowship
• About YEI
• YouRenew.com

Connecticut Innovations' CTech hosts FREE startup business seminars in New Haven. Attend the lunches in person or watch the speaker videos.

• CTech Brown Bag Lunch Series

 
The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has made many of our speaker presentations available for free on iTunesU through Apple's iTunes software. The YEI podcasts are listed under Yale Business & Management. Click here to download the podcasts.

YEI Podcasts include:

How to Write a Business Plan
Speaker: Maureen Burke, Lecturer at the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

How to Protect New Products and Discoveries
Speaker: Kimberly Muller, Licensing Associate, Yale Office of Cooperative Research

In the Spotlight: Women Entrepreneurs
Speakers: Emily McHugh of Casauri, Rachel Hronek of Retail Optimization, Amanda Moskowitz of ShopText, and Jennifer Staple of Unite for Sight

Insights into Cleantech Funding
Speaker: Dhiraj Malkani, Principal at RockPort Capital Partners

Starting a Startup
Speaker: Chris Penner, Founder and CEO of RemoTV.com

Decision Making at a Startup
Speaker: Jordan Goldberg, Founder and CEO of Stickk.com

DFJ Gotham and Early Stage Investing
Speaker: Daniel Schultz, Co-Founder and Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures

Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur
Speaker: Andrew Greenawalt, Entrepreneur and CTO of Perimeter

The Development of the SKS Microfinance Program
Speaker: Ajaita Shah, Director of SKS Foundation's US Operation

Newcos and the Nerac Incubator
Speaker: Kevin Bouley, President and CEO of Nerac