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Accelerating Success: A Study of Seed Accelerators and Their Defining Characteristics
Follow accelerators on Twitter
Accelerato.rs
Bolt (Boston - internet-connected hardware)
Global Accelerator Network
HAXLR8R (Bay Area, Shenzhen - hardware)
European Accelerators Map
Lemnos Labs (Silicon Valley - hardware)
National Business Incubation Association - search for incubators
NSF Innovation Corps
PCH Accelerator (hardware, run by international supply chain management company)
Rock Health - Seed accelerator for digital health startups
Shopify Build-A-Business
TechStars (Boulder, Boston, NYC, Seattle - mostly web-based companies)
Y Combinator (Silicon Valley - mostly web-based companies)
List of Books for Startups on Steve Blank's blog
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Democratizing Innovation by Eric Von Hippel (free)
Discovery Driven Growth by Rita McGrath
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship (& Case Studies) by William Bygrave and Andrew Zacharakis
Product Design and Development by Karl Ulrich and Steven Eppinger
Smart Customers, Stupid Companies: Why Only Intelligent Companies Will Thrive, and How To Be One of Them by Michael Hinshaw and Bruce Kasanoff
The Startup Owner's Manual: A Step By Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution by Vijay Govindarajan
BizBuilder SC
BizFilings.com Business Owner's Toolkit
Charleston Digital Corridor
Charleston Regional Development Alliance
Charleston Small Business Development Center
Fledgewing (Top 50 University Entrepreneurship Clubs)
Foundation for Enterprise Development
Kauffman Foundation - Entrepreneurship
SCORE - Find a Mentor
Small Business Charleston
U.S. Small Business Administration
Startup Genome
StartupNation
RipCord - smart, portable strength training equipment
Smart Collar - pet monitoring system
Academic Earth
Coding resources
8 Useful Resources to Learn How to Code Quickly
W3Schools
Coursera.org
E Squared (Educational class search)
Education-portal.com
edX
HCD Connect - Human Centered Design by IDEO (PDF toolkit)
Khan Academy
Machinedesign.com
MIT OCW
Protecting Your Intellectual Property - University of Oklahoma
Saylor Foundation
Solve For X - talks by Google's think tank
Technology Entrepreneurship - Stanford class (Prof. Eesley's blog)
TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design talks
Udacity
Adafruit Blog
Alltop (Guy Kawasaki's aggregator)
For Entrepreneurs (David Skok, Matrix Partners)
Entrepreneur Magazine
EvD - solidsmack (design process), cadjunkie (design training) EngineerVsDesigner (design insight)
GigaOm
Hack-A-Day
Harvard Business Review
Inc Magazine
Jim Vileta's Business Research Launch Pad (University of Minnesota)
Karl Ulrich (wiki)
Mixergy
no upside - (Renee DiResta, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures)
Paul Graham - (Y Combinator)
Reddit - r/hwstartups, r/startups, r/entrepreneur, r/askengineers
Rita McGrath (Columbia University)
Roger Martin
scanlime
Startup Lessons Learned (Eric Ries)
Steve Blank
Make
MIT Technology Review
TechCrunch
Tim Ferriss
Wired
Venture Beat
VentureBlog (David Hornik, August Capital)
Vijay Govindarajan
Vincius Vacanti
Adafruit forum
Eng-Tips
Engineer's Edge
Hack-A-Day forum
Maker Faire - The World's most diverse showcase of creativity and innovation in technology, craft, science, fashion, art, food and more!
Physics Forums
Stack Exchange - Q&A aggregator with a programming focus
Stanford Product Design Wiki
Quora - high quality Q&A site
AngelList
Charleston Angel Partners
Crowdfunding
CrowdRise (charity, events, & special projects)
IndieGoGo
Kickstarter
Rock The Post
Funding Post
GoBig Network
Google.org
Protolabs Big Idea Award
Venture Capital Firms
KPCB
Sequoia
The Transparent Term Sheet & What's in a Term Sheet? by Founders Fund
Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) - government open solicitations, $150k in first phase (6-9 months) and $850k (1.5-2 years) in second phase
US Air Force - Topics posted in Mid September
Overview schedule of SBIR and STTR agencies
Entrepreneurship Education Resource
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurship
Authorize.net (payment gateway, requires shopping cart)
DAQ & Analysis software
MATLAB
LabVIEW
Maple
Mathematica
CRM
Highrise by 37signals
Zen Desk
Docstoc - professional, legal, and financial documents
Employment Law Information Network
Finance
Expensify - expense reports
Financial Projections Model (first 5 years)
Freelancer.com - hire a freelancer
GeniusRocket - crowd-sourced video production
Harvest - Timekeeping Software and App
IdeaConnection - crowd-sourced technology development, sourcing, IP monetization
IRS Small Business
Legal
Legal Zoom - legal documents
FindLaw Small Business
RocketLawyer - create legal documents, have lawyers review them
Marketing
HootSuite - Social media management
MailChimp - email newsletters and mailing lists
PRLog.com - free press release distribution
NineSigma - open innovation, crowd-sourced solutions
ODesk - hire a freelancer
Project Outline Template
Project Management
Asana
Basecamp by 37signals
PBWorks (more than just a wiki)
Square - mobile CC payment system
TopCoder - crowd-sourced software development
Trade Show News Network - Top Trade Shows
ULINE - packaging materials (small MOQ & fast delivery)
UTest - crowd-sourced software testing
Web development
Freedigitalphotos.net - free stock photos
LaunchRock - Quick & easy launch page
Simple Machines - free forum software
Weebly - Quick & easy website builder
Wix - Free website builder
Dreamhost - Website hosting and domain registration
American Fact Finder
arXiv.org (Cornell)
FedStats.com
Google Patents
Google Scholar
Harvard Business School - Baker Library
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
ResearchGate
SBA Office of Economic Research
3D Printing
123d - Software, content, and fabrication from Autodesk
3D Systems - 3D printers and 3D printing, based in Rock Hill, SC -
Engitype, LLC - 3D Systems Rep for NW. Will print parts at a low cost, just ask for John and mention Krissa They also do engineering visualizations (videos).
ExOne - sand, metal, glass 3D printing
Shapeways - 3D printing, including metals and ceramics
Directindustry.com
Electronic Parts
Adafruit - electronics for hackers
Arrow
AVNet
Digikey
Mouser
Monoprice - cheap wiring and electronics accessories
Newark
Sparkfun - electronics for hackers
Electronic Board Fabrication
Advanced Circuits - they have free PCB layout/routing software on their website, they also do board assembly
South Coast
International sourcing
Alibaba
Global sources
MFG.com
Misumi - Semi custom parts, materials, and mechanisms (linear slides, etc.)
KellySearch - B2B Supplier search
McMaster
Plastics
Protomold - injection molding and rapid prototyping
Ponoko - download your products from the internet and make them locally
Stream Unlimited - embedded software, hardware development, wireless
ThomasNet - Supplier Discovery and Product Sourcing
ToolDiscounter.com
Vistatek - rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, and injection molding (formerly CloudFab)
3dCADCentral - free CAD models
efunda
Application Development
Apple Developer Library (99.00/yr membership to download s/w - must have an newer Apple computer - app must be approved by Apple)
iOS Human Interface Guidelines - Apple App guidelines
Start Developing iOS Apps Today - Walks you through all requirements and includes tutorial to build first app
App Design Strategies - design principals for a "good" app
Electronics
Arduino - open source Wiring platform/microcontroller (forum)
CircuitLab - Browser-based circuit design & testing
Electric Imp - easy WiFi integration
Raspberry Pi - $25 ARM GNU/Linux board (forum)
Engineer's Edge
GrabCAD - free CAD models
Institutes, Societies, Publishers
Acoustical Society of America
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Physics
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing
Association for Facilities Engineering
Audio Engineering Society
The Electrochemical Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Physics Publishing
International Union of Crystallography
Optical Society of America
Professional Engineering Publishing
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SPIE Optics and Photonics
The Society for Information Display
Make Lab Charleston - Charleston's local Hacker Space
MakerBot / Thingiverse
Metal working reference charts
Drill & Tap Chart
Helicoil
Metals stock list (Ryerson)
PEM - PennEngineering
Pipe Schedules
Sheet Metal Thickness/Gauge Chart
Weld Joint and Weld Types
Open Source Hardware
BuildLog.net - CNC laser cutter
CNCZone - open source CNC machine forum
Lasersaur - CNC laser cutter
Open Source Software
Sourceforge
Protomold's YouTube channel - plastic injection molding design
RoyMech
SmartDraw - Mechanical/electrical schematic software ($197)
TradePub.com - free trade magazines & technical papers
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