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Technology Entrepreneur Resources

The Entrepreneur Resources contain a suggested reading list as well as suggested web pages the new entrepreneur may find useful.

An Entrepreneur's Suggested Reading List

Entrepreneurial Management

  • The Ernst and Young Business Plan Guide by Eric Siegel, Brian R. Ford, and Jay M. Burnstein
  • The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship , 3rd ed. by William D. Bygrave, Editor
  • The Start-up Entrepreneur by James R. Cook
  • The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law by Constance Bagley and Craig E. Dauchy
  • New Venture Mechanics by Karl H. Vesper
  • Engineering Your Start-up: A Guide for the Hi-Tech Entrepreneur by Michael L. Baird
  • The New Venture Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to start and Run Your Own Business by Ronald E. Merrill and Henry D. Sedgwick
  • High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success by C. Gordon Bell with John E. McNamara
  • New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st century , 5th ed. by Jeffry Timmons
  • New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneurby Howard Stevenson et al.
  • The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategiesby Rhonda Abrams
  • Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources by Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault
  • Raising Money: Venture Funding and How to Get It by Ronald E. Merrill
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
High Technology Marketing
  • How to Drive the Competition Crazy by Guy Kawasaki
  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoff Moore
  • Inside the Tornado by Geoff Moore
  • Relationship Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer by Regis McKenna
  • Real Time Marketing by Regis McKenna
  • Marketing High Technology: An Insider's View by Bill Davidow
  • The One-to-One Future by Don Peppers et al.
Other
  • Financial & Cost Analysis for Engineering. and Technology Management by Hank Riggs
  • High Tech StartUp by John L. Nesheim
  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
  • Startup by Jerry Kaplan
  • Regional Advantage by A. Saxenian
  • Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
  • Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Wolff
  • Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft by Michael A. Cusumano and David B. Yoffie
  • The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
  • eBoys by Randall Stross
  • Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship by Amar Bhldt

  Suggested Web pages

MIT Open Courseware search on "entrepreneur"
All of MIT's courses on entrepreneurship they have made available to the public through their open courseware program

Bplans.com business planning resources
Offers tools, guides and expert advice on how to take a business idea and turn it into a polished professional plan that gets results

Small Business Administration
This page from the Small Business Administration Web site contains a basic step-by-step approach to writing a business plan. This site provides information on legal issues, business planning, software, and other resources.

The Red Herring
The Red Herring provides directories, resources and news and analysis on high-tech and entrepreneurial happenings.

Entrepreneur Magazine
This web site provides information and solutions for a growing business.

Intel Small Business
This web site provides solutions and resources for small businesses from Intel Corporation.

MIT Technology Review
This is MIT's review of the latest emerging technology. It covers a broad array of technologies including biotechnology, healthcare, business, computing, energy, nanotechnology, security, software, telecommunications and the internet.

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