Web Sites & Other Sources:

• Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship.org - This site includes valuable information for entrepreneurs interested in growth, including a collection of articles, tools, and templates on “pitching angels.” The site includes a special section on valuation of pre-revenue companies.
• American Heritage – Invention and Technology – This quarterly online magazine is dedicated to the history of technology
• Angel Investor News - This site includes background on angel investing and has an entire section on preparing business plans and presentations.
• Inc Magazine - Contains articles and practical advice for entrepreneurs interested in obtaining angel funding.
• National Association of Investment Companies - This association of venture capital firms that invest in minority owned firms offers special insights.
• Red Herring – Weekly magazine dedicated to the business of funding, building, and taking new technologies to market.
• Small Business Administration - A good introduction to starting a business and writing your business plan.
• SCORE – Counselors to America’s Small Business is a nonprofit association connected to the Small Business Administration. Focused on educating entrepreneurs, its mission is to encourage the formation, growth, and success of small business nationwide.
• Technology Review – Bimonthly magazine owned by MIT and focused on new technology and how it gets commercialized.
• The Business Mentor - The entrepreneur’s business planning advisor on CD-ROM.

• Access to Finance - This European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry website provides an insight about the importance of equity financing and business angels in particular in Europe


• Enterprise Finance Index –The Enterprise Finance Index provides facts and figures on the development of SME finance in the EU Member States.


• Gate2Growth.com - This is a pan-European business platform for entrepreneurs seeking financing, investors, incubator managers, knowledge transfer offices, and academics.


• The Enterprise Europe Network -Launched by the European Commission provides information and advice to EU companies on EU matters, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and has contact points in more than 40 countries.


• IPR Helpdesk and InnovAccess - IPR Helpdesk focuses on specific IP issues involved in R&D and Innovation EU funded projects, and InnovAccess gives you a direct access to national resources and general IP issues


• The Your Europe – Business portal – This Commission portal offers practical multilingual information and access to online government services for companies looking to do business in another EU country.


• European network for women's entrepreneurship -Launched by the European Commission, the network promotes female entrepreneurship in European countries (EU, Iceland, Norway and Turkey).