Resources for Entrepreneurs
Instruction and Networking
Small Business Development Center
Neil Lerner http://www.uwsbdc.org/
Vital classes for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Dane, Sauk and Columbia Counties.
Direct help line at 608/263-7680
Contact via email here.
Family Business Center
http://uwexeced.com/fbc/
Provides leadership training and other resources for the crucial sector of family owned businesses.
Contact Anne Kinkade
Email: akinkade@bus.wisc.edu
Phone: 608/262-9997
Launching Entrepreneurial Advisory Panels http://www.bus.wisc.edu/leap/default.asp
Recent program to provide advisory panels especially for women entrepreneurs.
The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship - The Weinert Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Business is dedicated to teaching, research, and service pertaining to entrepreneurial management and enterprise development. It helps to administer the undergraduate Entrepreneurship major in the School of Business Management and Human Resources Departmentand the MBA program in Entrepreneurship.
Link: http://www.bus.wisc.edu/weinertcenter/
Contact Ray Aldag
Email: raldag@bus.wisc.edu
University Faculty, Staff and Student Entrepreneurs
OCR - The mission of Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) is to establish the most productive relationship possible between the private sector and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Link: http://www.corprelations.wisc.edu/
Contact Allen Dines
Email: ajdines@facstaff.wisc.edu.
WARF
WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, has been creating economic value from great ideas for over 75 years for the benefit of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, its inventors and society as a whole.
Link: http://www.warf.ws/
Email: info@warf.ws
University Research Park
University Research Park is a unique research and technology park, whose primary mission is to encourage partnerships between businesses and university researchers. It provides space in its incubation facilities for new companies.
Link: http://www.universityresearchpark.org/
Email: urespark@facstaff.wisc.edu
Associations
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Housed in the UW-Wisconsin Business School, this is the most influential
national group devoted to entrepreneurship education.
Link: http://www.usasbe.org/
Other Useful Links
- Small Business Administration
- Small Business Investment Companies
- Small Business Investment Research
- How stuff works?
- Business.Com
- Business Owners' Toolkit
- Access Capital
- SCORE
- Government Assistance
- Galaxy
- SBIR/STTR
- Federal Grant Resources
- Cornell Univ. Library
- Innovation Avenue
- Invention Funding
- Short guide to SBA Loans