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Listed below are resources to help budding entrepreneurs
develop and grow their ideas. They include volunteer and governmental
organizations dedicated to the development of small business and a solid reading
list for those just getting started or looking for the answer
to that nagging question.
Page Index:
Bay Area Organizations
Bay Area Incubators
Entrepreneurial On-Line Resources, Columns & Blogs
Lester Center Reading List
San
Francisco Bay Area Organizations
The African Network Entrepreneurship Site
The Alameda County Small Business Development Center
Astia (formerly Women’s Technology Cluster)
Score
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
San Francisco Small Business
Development Center
Silicon Valley
Small Business Development Center
San
Francisco Bay Area Incubators
SAN FRANCISCO
Daly
City Business Center
355 Gellert Blvd., Ste. 230
Daly City, CA 94015
(650) 757-2060
(650) 757-2075
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Dogpatch Labs
Pier 38
San Francisco, CA |
I/O Ventures
780 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA
info@ventures.io |
Kicklabs
250 Brannan #100
San Francisco CA 94107
info@kicklabs.com
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mission*social
972 Mission Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: +1 415 901 1969
email: info@missionsocial.org
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Renaissance
Entrepreneurship Center
275 Fifth St.
San Francisco , CA 94102
(415) 541-8580
(415) 541-8589 |
SOMAcentral
Pier 38 and 153 Townsend St. ,San Francisco, CA
info@SOMAcentral.com |
The Tides Center
The Presidio, PO Box 29907
San Francisco, CA 94129
(415) 561 6300
(415) 561 6301
info@tides.org |
EAST BAY
SOUTH BAY
Environmental
Business Cluster
2 North First Street , Fourth floor
San Jose , CA 95113
(408) 938-3920
(408) 271-1904 |
The
Foundry Inc.
199 Jefferson Drive
Menlo Park 94025
(650) 326-2656
(650) 326-3108
info@thefoundry.com |
Garage Technology Ventures
3300 Hillview Avenue, Suite150
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 354-1800
(650) 354-1801 |
Global Social Benefit
Incubator
Santa Clara University
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, California 95053
(408) 551-1785
(408) 554-2346 |
US Market Access Center (formerly International Business Incubator)
10 South Third Street, 3rd Floor
San Jose CA 95113
(408) 351-3323
(408) 351-3332 |
Los Altos Incubator
878 Hoffman Terrace
Los Altos, CA 94024
(650) 941-4500
(650) 941-2104 |
San Jose Bioscience
Incubator
5941 Optical Court
San Jose, CA 95138
(408) 960-3807
(408) 960-3822
info@sjBioCenter.com |
San José
State University Foundation
210 N. Fourth Street, Fourth Floor
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 924-1400
(408) 924-1499 |
The Enterprise Network
2953 Bunker Hill Lane
Suite 400,
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 282-3500 |
Silicon Valley Economic Development Alliance
100 W. San Fernando Street, Suite 310
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 298-9330
info@jointventure.org |
Sobrato Center for Innovation
(Milpitas and San Jose)
grants@sobrato.org
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Software Development Forum
901 Mariner's Island Blvd. #595
San Mateo, CA 94404
408.414.5950 Main
info@sdforum.org
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On-Line Resources, Columns and Blogs
“Opportunities” with Peter Fiske (Berkeley MBA ’02)
"The
Secret History of Silicon Valley", a presentation
given by Haas entrepreneurship Lecturer Steve
Blank at one of Google's weekly Tech Talks.
"Top-10 Most
Common Intellectual Property Rights Mistakes During Venture
Capital Due Diligence" by Dennis Fernandez, Managing
Partner at Fernandez & Associates LLP
Small Business Lawyer from LexisNexis
Legal Information from LexisNexis
Vivek Wadhwa
http://www.wadhwa.com/
Steve Blank
http://steveblank.com/
Tech Crunch
http://techcrunch.com/
Blogtrepreneur.com
http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/
Lester Center
Suggested Reading List
- Adizes, Ichak.
The Pursuit of Prime. Knowledge Exchange, 1997.
- Blank, Steve.
Four Steps to the Epiphany, Cafepress.com 2005.
- Christensen, Clayton M. The
Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
- Dorf &
Byers. Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise
with Student DVD
- Gladwell,
Malcolm.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
Difference. Bay Back Books, 2002.
- Harroch, Richard D. Start-up
and Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing& Operating
the Successful Business.
- Hegedus, Chris.
Start-up.com (DVD)
- Leifer, Richard et al. Radical
Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts.
Harvard Business School Press, 1st edition, 2000.
- Moore, Geoffrey A. Crossing
the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream
Customers. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
- Sahlman, William, Stevenson, Howard,
Roberts, Michael and Bhide, Amar. The Entrepreneurial
Venture. 2nd edition. Boston. Harvard Business School Press,
1999
- Stevenson, Howard, Roberts, Michael,
and Grousbeck, H. Irving. New Business Ventures and
the Entrepreneur. Irwin McGraw-Hill, 5th edition, 1998.
- Timmons, Jeffry A. New Venture
Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century. Irwin McGraw-Hill,
2004
- Timmons, Jeffry A., Andrew Zacharakis,
and Stephen Spinelli. Business Plans that work: A
guide for Small Business. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
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- Boston Consulting
Group. A
Revolution in R&D
- Griffiths,
Anthony J.F.; Gelbart, William M.; Miller, Jeffrey H.; Lewontin,
Richard C. Modern
Genetic Analysis
- Herrera, Stephen. Against
the Grain
- Lodish, Harvey; Berk, Arnold; Zipursky,
S. Lawrence; Matsudaira, Paul; Baltimore, David; Darnell,
James E., New York. Molecular
Cell Biology
- Marshall, Eliot. Cell
Biology: A Versatile Cell Line Raises Scientific Hopes,
Legal Questions
- Marshall, Eliot. The
Business of Stem Cells
- Persley, G.J. Agricultural
Biotechnology and the Poor: Promethean Science
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- Chesbrough, Henry. Open Innovation:
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology.
Harvard Business School Press, March 2003.
- Teece, David. Technology,
Organization and Competitiveness. Oxford University Press,
1998.
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- Bronson, Po. The Nudist on
the Late Shift. Broadway Books (reprint) 2000
- Saxenian, Annalee. Regional
Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and
Route 128. Harvard University Press, 1996.
- "The
Secret History of Silicon Valley", a presentation
given by Haas entrepreneurship Lecturer Steve
Blank at one of Google's weekly Tech Talks.
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- Pfeffer, Jeffrey. The Human
Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First. Harvard
Business School Press, 1998.
- Sifton, Sam. A field Guide
to the Yettie: America’s Young, Entrepreneurial Technocrats
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- Bagley, Constance E. Managers
an the Legal Environment. South-Western College Pub., 4th
edition, 2001.
- Brandt, Steven C. Stay Out
of Court and In Business. Archipelago Publishing, 1997
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- Swensen, David. Pioneering
Portfoliio Management an Unconvential Approach to Instituional
Investment. Free Press, 1st edition, May 2000.
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- Glodratt, Eliyahu. The Goal:
The Process of Ongoing Improvements.. North River Press
Publishing Corporation; 2nd Revision edition , 1992.
- Ohno, Taiicho. Toyota Production
System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Productivity Press,
1988
- Womack, James. Lean Thinking:
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. Free
Press, 2003
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- Davidow, William H. Marketing
High Technology. Free Press, 1986
- Davidow, William H. Total
Customer Service: The Ultimate Weapon. Harper Collins, 1990
- Moore, Geoffrey A. Inside
the Tornado. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995
- Peppers, Don and Rogers, Martha.
The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer
at a Time. Currency/Doubleday, 1997
- Sawhney, Mohan. www.mohansawhney.com
- Sawhney, Mohan. The Seven
Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation.
McGraw-Hill Trade, 2001.
- Sawhney, Mohan. TechVenture:
New Rules on Value and Profit from Silicon Valley. John
Wiley & Sons, 2001
- Winer, Russell. Marketing
Management
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- Godin, Seth. Permission Marketing:
Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends into Customers.
Simon & Schuster, 1999
- Godin, Seth. Unleasing the
Ideavirus. Hyperion, 2001
- Locke, Christopher. The Cluetrain
Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Perseus Books Group.
- McKenna, Regis. Relationship
Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer
Cambridge, Perseus, 1991.
- Ries, Al and Trout, Jack.
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind the 20th Anniversary
Edition. McGraw-hill Trade, 2000
- Ries, Al and Trout, Jack. The
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own
Risk. Harper Collins, 2002
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- Downes, Larry and Mui, Chunka.
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market
Dominance. Harvard Business School Press, 1998
- Kennedy, Martin. Understanding
Silicon Valley. Stanford University Press, 2000
- Lee, Chong-Moon et al. The
Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Stanford University Press, 2000
- Schwartz, Peter. The Art
of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain
World. Bantam Books Audio, 1995
- Shapiro, Carl and Varian, Hal.
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy.
Harvard Business School Press, 1998
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of reading list]
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- Cooper, Alan. The Inmates
are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us
Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. SAMS, 1st edition,
1999
- Norman, Donald A. The Invisible
Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer
is So Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution.
MIT Press, reprint, 1999
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- Bosworth, Michael T. Solution
Selling: Creating Buyers in a Difficult Selling Market.
McGraw-Hill Trade, 1994
- Heiman, Stephen, et al. The
New conceptual Selling: The Most Effective and Proven Method
for Face-to Face Sales Planning. Warner Books, revised and
updated, 1999.
- Heiman, Stephen, et al. The
New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful
by the World’s Best Companies
- Khalsa, Mahan. Lets Get Real
or Lets Not Play. Franklin Quest Co., 1st edition, 1999
- Rackham, Neil. Spin Selling.
McGraw-Hill Trade, 1988
- Sandler Selling
System
- Miller Heiman Sales
Process Consulting & Training
- Collins, Jim and Porras, Jerry I.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.
Harper Collins, 1994.
- Collins, Jim Good to Great:
Why Some Companies Make the Leap. Harper Collins, 2001.
- Coram, Robert Body: The
Fighter Pilot Who Change the Art of War. Little
Brown & Company, 2002.
- Gunther McGrath, Rita. The
Entrepreneurial Mindset. Harvard Business School Press,
2000.
- Lanning, Michael J. Delivering
Profitable Value. Perseus Book Group, 1st edition 2000
- Musashi, Miyamoto. The Book
of Five Rings, Shambhala, 2000.
- Tzu, Sun. The Art of War,
Dover Pubns, 2002
- Carl Von Clausewitz's On War: Everyman's Library Series,
1982
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- Baird, Michael L. Engineering
Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur. Professional
Pubns, 1999
- Bell, C. Gordon. High-Tech
Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Studies
- Blank, Steve.
Four Steps to the Epiphany, Cafepress.com 2005.
- Nesheim, John L. High Tech
Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful
New High Tech Companies. Simon & Schuster, revised and
updated, 2000
- Wilmerding, Alex Term Sheets
& Valuations - An Inside Look at the Intricacies of Venture
Captial. Aspatore Books Staff, Aspatore.com
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- Feld, Brad. Blog: Term Sheet Archives. See latest entry:
Revisiting the Term Sheet, June 3, 2008.
- Ferguson, Charles H. High
Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory
in the Internet Wars. Times Books, 1999.
- Kaplan, Jerry. Startup: A
Silicon Valley Adventure. New York: Penguin, 1996.
- Lerner, Josh. Capital &
Private Equity: A Casebook; volume two. John Wiley &
Sons, 2000
- Stross, Randall E. Eboys:
The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work.
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap), 2001
- Wilson, Fred. Discussions on Venture Economics, A VC Blog: Venture Fund Economics, Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns, Venture Fund Economics: When One Deal Returns The Fund.
- Wolff, Michael. Burn Rate:
How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet, Touchstone
Books, 1999
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