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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

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.

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.