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Homework Assignments

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Templates

Wondering how to organize your business documentation? Don't! Here are best-practice templates, all you need to do is fill them in.  Please note that some of these templates are embedded within applications for competitions, you can simply ignore the non-template portions of the documents.

• Elevator Pitch Template
• Executive Summary Template
• Mini Plan Template
• Business Plan Template
• Investor Presentation Template | Sample Presentation Slides and Accompanying Speech

Examples

Here are sample documents based on the above templates.

• Elevator Pitch
• Exective Summary
• Investor Presentation Slides and Accompanying Speech

Lectures

• How to Pitch
• Speaking Investorese & Business Planning 
• 7 Mistakes You Don't Want to Make
• Marketing for Startups
• Savvy Networking
• NCIIA Grant Lecture
• SBIR Grants Lecture (Part 1)
• SBIR Grants Lecture (Part 2)

Websites

• Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council
• The Capital Network - A community for entrepreneurs seeking between $50k and $4M
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - a source of grant funding for startups
• The Frank Peters Show - Podcast interviews of entrepreneurs and investors
• The Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation - a nonprofit dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship
• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Entreprenuer.com
• Entrepreneurship.com

Books

Top Picks

• The Art of the Start
• How to Win Friends & Influence People

Other Great Books

• The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money  
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers