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This section offers information and additional resources for topics that are particularly important to entrepreneurs. Please contact us if there are other issues which you would like to see discussed.
Angel Financing
Angel investors—high net-worth individuals—represent as essential source of funding for early stage, high-risk ventures. Conservative estimates put the magnitude of angel investments at approximately $20 billion per year.
Business Plans
After developing a viable business model, the critical first step, the entrepreneur needs a business plan to communicate this model. The business plan is also the operating guideline for the new venture; it articulates the goals, as well as the means for achieving them. The plan serves as the means of communication with potential sources of funding, describing both the business and the entrepreneur's ability to organize and conceptualize the details.
International Entrepreneurship
We currently offer resources for entrepreneurship in China and India, with additional regions to be added.
Legal Resources
Our legal workshop series for Entrepreneurs covers topics includingforming a company, stock management, general employment issues, financing, and intellectual property, among others.
Search Funds
Conceived in 1984, the search fund is an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneur's efforts to locate and acquire a privately held company. Recent MBA and law school graduates are using this approach more and more frequently to become entrepreneurs shortly after graduation.
Venture Capital
Venture capitalists consistently emphasize the importance of the management team in an entrepreneurial venture and focus much of their due diligence on the key people involved. They assert that a good idea is only executable when implemented by a top-notch executive team.