Resources

We hope you find these resources helpful. If you know of resources that you think we should add, please email them to us. We will keep this section updated often.

Local and regional organizations to contact for professional advice and assistance:

• NYSTAR - Research Equipment & Facilities Database (www.nystar.state.ny.us)
• Empire State Venture Group (www.empirestateventuregroup.org)
• Smart Start Venture Forum (www.smartstartvf.com)
• Tompkins County Area Development (www.tcad.org)
• Syracuse Technology Garden (http://www.thetechgarden.com)
• Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC) (www.cctec.cornell.edu)
• Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce (http://www.tompkinschamber.org)
• Upstate Venture Association of New York, Inc. (www.uvany.com)
• BR Incubator (bri.cornell.edu)
• BR Legal (brl.cornell.edu)
• BR Ventures (brv.cornell.edu)
• Entrepreneur's Guide To Raising Venture Capital (www.markpeterdavis.com)

Entrepreneur / VC Books:

• SmartUps: Lessons from Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur America Boot Camp for Start-Ups by Rob Ryan
• The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
• Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories by Udayan Gupta
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• Deal Terms by Alex Wilmerding
• The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies and Capital Structure by Kenneth H. Marks
• Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise by Byers and Dorf

Great Web Resources:

• Job Searchhttp://www.indeed.com/
• Venture Blogs, http://www.ventureblogs.com/
• WSJ's Venture Capital Dispatch, http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/
• PE Hub, http://www.peHUB.com/
• NY Times DealBook, http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/
• YCombinator Startup Library, http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
• Omnisio Startup School, http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08
• The Startup Lawyer, http://www.thestartuplawyer.com
• Startup Company Lawyer, http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com
• Garage Technology Ventures - Getting Started, http://www.garage.com
• Entrepreneur's Guide To Raising Venture Capital, http://www.markpeterdavis.com
• Start Up Forms, http://www.orrick.com
• VentureHacks, http://www.venturehacks.com

Jobs in Startups and Venture Capital:

• Venture Loop, http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/home.php
• CoNotes, http://www.conotes.com/
• Startupers, http://startupers.com/
• Startuply, http://www.startuply.com/
• nPost, http://www.npost.com/
• HotStartupJobs, http://www.hotstartupjobs.com/

Links to Industry Information:

• Angel Capital Education Foundation - www.angelcapitaleducation.org
• NVCA - Valuation Guidelines
• NVCA - Model Legal Documents
• NVCA - Industry Organizations
• PWC MoneyTree - Quarterly VC Financing Data

Sites to learn more about Ithaca and the Finger Lakes:

• www.discoverytrail.net
• www.ci.ithaca.ny.us
• www.cornell.edu
• www.ithaca.edu
• www.ithacaevents.com
• www.visitfingerlakes.com