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Links of Interest

Organizations

  • SCORE (Service Core of Retired Executives):  Partner of the Small Business Administration that aids in the formation, growth, and success of small businesses nationwide.
    Online: http://www.score.org/
    Local Office:
    10 Causeway Street, Room 265
    Boston, MA 02222-1093
    PHONE: (617) 565-5591
    FAX: (617) 565-5597
    EMAIL: Boston-SCORE-20@worldnet.att.net
    Local Chapter's Home Page: http://www.scoreboston.org
     
  • MIT Enterprise Forum:  The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is a volunteer, non-profit organization based at MIT whose mission is to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing innovative and technology-oriented companies by providing services and programs that educate, inform, and support the entrepreneurial community.
    Online:  http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/
    28 Carleton Street E32-328
    Cambridge, MA 02139
    Phone: 617-253-8240
    Fax: 617-258-0532
    Email: mitefcmb@mit.edu
     
  • Massachusetts Interactive Media Council:  MIMC is a non-profit trade association created to help support and build the interactive media industry in New England.  Offers a series of fun and exciting events in and around Boston, including the CyberBrew.  A MUST SEE.
    Online: http://www.mimc.org/ 
    43 Charles Street
    Boston, MA 02114
    Phone: 617-227-2822
    Fax: 617-227-2490
    Email: office-mimc@mimc.org
       
  • Massachusetts Software & Internet Council
    The Massachusetts Software & Internet Council is a non-profit trade association dedicated to promoting the Massachusetts software and Internet industry and to helping companies compete successfully in global markets. Our member companies range from traditional software companies to companies active in the Internet, network communications, and new media markets. They range from one-person entrepreneurial ventures, to established corporations with thousands of employees. All member companies are involved in the design and delivery of digital products and services
    Online: http://www.swcouncil.org/
    E-Mail: info@swcouncil.org
    Massachusetts Software Council, Inc.
    One Exeter Plaza, Suite 200
    Boston, MA 02116-2831
    Fax: 617/437-9686
    Telephone: 617/437-0600
     

Business Plan Creation

  • BizPlanit's Virtual Business Plan:  This unique and free on-line resource mirrors the major sections of a business plan - enabling you to point and click your way to the information you need to write and improve your business plan.
    Online:  http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.htm 
     
  • LivePlan.com: LivePlan.com allows you to securely post your business plan, marketing plan, and web strategy plan on the web. You and others working on the plan can edit and view the plan from any computer with Internet access! In order to get your plan to the web, all you need to do is click a button!
    Online:  http://www.LivePlan.com/ 
     
  • Business Plan Software:

Small Business Resource Centers

  • Small Business Administration Small Business Development Centers:  The SBDC Program is designed to deliver up-to-date counseling, training and technical assistance in all aspects of small business management. SBDC services include, but are not limited to, assisting small businesses with financial, marketing, production, organization, engineering and technical problems and feasibility studies. Special SBDC programs and economic development activities include international trade assistance, technical assistance, procurement assistance, venture capital formation, rural development and it serves as an intermediary for the Pre qualification Loan Program.

    Local Office: 
    Metro Boston Regional Office at Boston College
    Jack McKiernan, Regional Director
    142 Beacon Street
    Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
    Phone: (617) 552-4091
    Email:  john.mckiernan@bc.edu 
     
  • Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network:  The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network's mission is to engage in individual counseling, training and economic development activities that contribute to the improvement of the economic climate for small businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The MSBDC's focus will be the maintenance of, and the creation of, viable small businesses and the jobs the businesses create. The MSBDC's primary resource to accomplish this is a unique program of high quality individualized management assistance that draws on the resources of the academic community, federal, state and local government and the private sector.
    Online: http://msbdc.som.umass.edu/ 
     
  • Massachusetts Office of Business Development: The mission of the Massachusetts Office of Business Development (MOBD) is to assist in the creation and preservation of jobs in Massachusetts. At the core of everything we do is an attitude that says we're at your service. We help businesses currently located in Massachusetts, as well as those outside the state that are interested in expanding, relocating, or simply exploring a range of business opportunities here.
    Online: http://www.state.ma.us/mobd/ 
    Address:
    Greater Boston Region
    Dick Sweeney
    Regional Director
    10 Park Plaza, Suite 3720
    Boston, MA 02116
    (617)973-8686

     
  • United States Business Advisor: Over 60 different federal organizations exist to assist or regulate business. With this many sources of information, finding what you want can be complicated and time-consuming. In keeping with the President’s and Vice President’s vision of using information technology to enable better customer service, federal agencies worked together to build the U.S. Business Advisor – a one-stop electronic link to all the information and services government provides for the business community.
    Online: http://www.business.gov 
     

Angel / VC Funding Resources

  • vcapital.com: vcapital is an Internet-based exchange for private capital and professional business services. By using the speed of the Internet, vcapital quickly and efficiently connects entrepreneurs with venture capital firms, professional business service providers and participants in the middle-market M&A community.  Feature-rich site 
    Website: http://www.vcapital.com 
     
  • National Venture Capital Association: The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the trade association that represents the venture capital industry. It is a member-based organization. Its membership consists of venture capital firms and organizations who manage pools of risk equity capital designated to be invested in young, emerging companies. Currently, the NVCA represents 400+ member firms, representing the majority of venture capital invested in U.S. based companies.
    Online: http://www.nvca.org/ 
  • University Angels: UniversityAngels.com is an online angel investor network where alumni from the world's top universities can come together to launch, invest in, and grow viable business concepts into industry-leading organizations.  Angel investors can register for free and review a steady stream of high quality startups at their convenience. Companies founded or led by alumni of the world's top universities can register now by filling out the entrepreneur application. Entrepreneurs pay only a nominal listing fee unless they are successful in raising capital. Both investors and entrepreneurs can look to UniversityAngels.com to keep abreast of entrepreneurial news concerning their alma mater.
    Online: http://www.UniversityAngels.com 
     
  • Garage.com: Garage.com claims "We Start Up Startups".  They are venture capital investment bank that provides funding services for high technology and life sciences startups. Since completing its first funding transaction in 1999, Garage.com has arranged 67 transactions raising over $240 million in equity financing through its wholly-owned broker/dealer subsidiary Garage.com Securities. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Garage.com has U.S. offices in Austin, Boston, and Seattle, and international offices in Israel and London.
    Online: http://www.garage.com 
    Local Address:
    281 Winter Street, Suite 310
    Waltham, MA 02451
    Tel: 781-290-5050 | Fax: 781-290-5075

Incubators

  • I-Group HotBank New England (NE): an early seed-stage investment firm, with a companion incubator, for Internet entrepreneurs in New England, focused on turning great ideas into fast-growing businesses.
    Website: http://www.i-group.com/
    Address: 355 Commonwealth Avenue - Boston, MA 02115
    Phone: 617.638.3000
     
  • Concord Incubator LLC
    Concord, MA
    Incubators are a dime a dozen in today's economy. Everyone and their mother claims to have one. Scratch beneath the surface and you'll find ad hoc operations with no apparent focus, so-called "expert help" from people barely out of their twenties, and an unabashed pursuit of wealth, as the most significant goal of the industry. At Concord Incubator(tm) we like to think that we're a little different. Why? Our Focus.
     
  • The Enterprise Center at Salem State College
    Salem, MA
    The Enterprise Center's Small Business Incubator Program is designed to support technology, service, and light manufacturing businesses as well as micro-enterprises from the North Shore Region in their early stages of development. The program features a variety of programs and services to nurture client businesses designed to assure their long term viability
     
  • Springfield Enterprise Center
    Springfield, MA
    The Springfield Enterprise Center, (SEC) is a full-service entrepreneurial one-stop center including a small business incubator providing start-up businesses with customized leases, administrative support services and comprehensive consulting and training in order to ensure that young businesses will succeed. The SEC is located in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park at 1 Federal Square in Springfield, Massachusetts, in a building which has been rehabilitated expressly for this purpose. It houses enough space for twenty resident businesses, a state-of-the-art computer lab/resource center, a teleconferencing center and meeting space for conferences and workshops.
     

IPO Information and Resources

Finding / Developing Your Team

  • Cofinders.com: Cofinders.com builds great co-founding teams by matching people who have breakthrough ideas and technologies with people who have breakthrough skills and experience.  They  are not an executive search firm and you will not find VP's and VP positions here. You will find partners and people who want to find partners.
    Website:  http://www.cofinders.com/ 
     
  • Seedling Group aggregates talented and innovative self-starters. Seedling accelerates the careers of these passionate individuals by either introducing them to a position at an entrepreneurial company or by linking them to strategic capital in order to grow their business.
    Website: http://www.seedlinggroup.com/ 
    Address:  Seedling Group, 65 Franklin Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02110
    Phone: (617) 451-1907
    Fax: (617) 451-5199
    Email: info@seedlinggroup.com

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