11/03/2008

LearnVC - Your guide to raising capital

These
guides from LearnVC include content from the LearnVC site and on external sites from leading experts in the startup community. Topics well covered include:

New Entrepreneurs
Experienced Entrepreneurs (refresher)
Future Investors (Angels or Venture Capitalists)
Students (Venture Capital Investment Competition participants and others)

11/01/2008

University Entrepreneurs Portal Launches

"At a time when graduates from leading universities face an increasingly challenging job market, Campus Venture Network, Inc. is launching StudentBusinesses.com, a free online platform that connects young entrepreneurs with business partners, mentors and investors who can help them launch successful startups.

Since the site’s beta launch in late 2007, thousands of aspiring university innovators have joined the network; while students from over 50 top universities have profiles on the site, the two universities with the most members are Harvard and MIT...

The website also helps investors, law firms, and other service providers identify top startups. Steven Welch, a partner at DreamIt Ventures, used the StudentBusinesses.com beta version to find members for the first class of its incubator program. Welch says: “StudentBusinesses.com is an excellent tool for aspiring entrepreneurs. It provides a mechanism to network with top-caliber people of diverse backgrounds, along with valuable resources to help guide entrepreneurs through the rough waters of starting a business. It will help many aspiring entrepreneurs, now more than ever.”

See this post from Small Business Trends, from which the foregoing was quoted, for live links.