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A Semi-Complete List of Startup Accelerator Programs
Accelerating Success: A Study of Seed Accelerators and Their Defining Characteristics
Accelerato.rs
Complete List of Incubators and Accelerators - launch.co
European Accelerators Map
Follow accelerators on Twitter
Global Accelerator Network
National Business Incubation Association - search for incubators
Seed-db.com
US & Canada Seed Stage Tech Accelerators
Specific accelerators/incubators:
AngelPad.org
Bolt - Boston - internet-connected hardware
HAXLR8R - Bay Area, Shenzhen - hardware
Lemnos Labs - Silicon Valley - hardware
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
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
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Pitching Hacks by Venture Hacks
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
LeanLaunchLab
SCORE - Find a Mentor
Small Business Charleston
U.S. Small Business Administration
Startup Genome
StartupNation
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
Engineering Motion
EnergineerGuy.com
HCD Connect - Human Centered Design by IDEO (PDF toolkit)
InTech - Open-access online book publisher
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals
Protecting Your Intellectual Property - University of Oklahoma
Khan Academy
Machinedesign.com
MIT OCW, Fab Lab
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)
Bryce.vc (Bryce Roberts, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures)
Chipreport.tv - video blog that covers newly released chips
For Entrepreneurs (David Skok, Matrix Partners)
Entrepreneur Magazine
EvD - solidsmack (design process), cadjunkie (design training) EngineerVsDesigner (design insight)
GigaOm
Hack-A-Day
Hackers/Founders TV
Harvard Business Review
Inc Magazine
Jim Vileta's Business Research Launch Pad (University of Minnesota)
Karl Ulrich (wiki)
Mixergy
NewbieHack - mechatronics tutorials
no upside - (Renee DiResta, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures)
Paul Graham - (Y Combinator)
Reddit - r/hwstartups, r/startups, r/entrepreneur, r/askengineers, r/machineporn
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)
Venture Hacks
Vijay Govindarajan
Vincius Vacanti
Adafruit forum
Arduino.cc forum
element14
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!
Mechanical Design Forum
Physics Forums
Sparkfun Forum
Stack Exchange - Q&A aggregator with a programming focus
Ask Patents
Stanford Product Design Wiki
Quora - high quality Q&A site
Angel Investors ($10K-250K+)
AngelList
Charleston Angel Partners
Upstate Carolina Angel Network
Competitions
Innocentive
Protolabs Big Idea Award
X-Prize Foundation
Crowdfunding
Christie Street
CrowdRise (charity, events, & special projects)
IndieGoGo
Kickstarter
Tindie
Rock The Post
Funding Post
GoBig Network
Google.org - philanthropic arm of Google, offers investments and grants
Pitch Development
How To Create An Early-Stage Pitch Deck For Investors - TechCrunch
Best Pitch Deck Examples on SlideShare
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
Overview schedule of SBIR and STTR agencies
Venture Capital Firms ($2M - 50M+)
VentureMaven - follow VCs on Twitter
National Venture Capital Association
Top 100 Venture Capital Firms
Entrepreneurship Education Resource
Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurship
Resources & Tools - Chuck Eesley
NYU - Resources for Entrepreneurs
sbtdc - Online marketing resources & research tools
Steve Blank - Startup Tools
Start-up Tools - another PBWorks Wiki, mainly web-based tools for web-based companies
Startup Weekend - Resources
Y Combinator - Startup Library - articles, books, blogs
Authorize.net (payment gateway, requires shopping cart)
DAQ & Analysis software
MATLAB
LabVIEW
Maple
Mathematica
Coroflot - hire designers
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)
Find-an-Expert Services
Clarity.fm
GLG Research
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
Open Source Software
Octave - Analysis / Visualization (like Matlab)
GIMP - Graphics Program (like Photoshop)
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. They also do engineering visualizations (videos).
ExOne - sand, metal, glass 3D printing
Shapeways - 3D printing, including metals and ceramics
American Science & Surplus
Carr Lane - component parts of jigs and fixtures
Design2Parts - Design & contract manufacturing trade shows across the US
Directindustry.com
Electronic Parts
Adafruit - electronics for hackers
Arrow
AVNet
Digikey
Mouser
Monoprice - cheap wiring and electronics accessories
Newark
Parts-express.com - great for DIY audio
Sparkfun - electronics for hackers
Electronic Board Fabrication
Advanced Circuits - they have free PCB layout/routing software on their website, they also do board assembly
ExpressPCB - free PCB layout software, low cost boards
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
Star Prototype - endorsed by Haxlr8r
Stream Unlimited - embedded software, hardware development, wireless
Scientific/Lab equipment
Edmunds Scientifics
Fisher Scientific
VWR
ThomasNet - Supplier Discovery and Product Sourcing
ToolDiscounter.com
Vistatek - rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, and injection molding (formerly CloudFab)
Who-sells-it.com - catalog product search
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
DC motor tutorials (Micromo)
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
IDES - plastics data sheets & UL yellow cards
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
An Introduction to Practical Electronics, Microcontrollers and Software Design (free e-book)
KiCad - Open Source EDA Software
Make Lab Charleston - Charleston's local Hacker Space
MakerBot / Thingiverse
Matweb - online materials information resource
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
Plastics Wiki
Protomold's YouTube channel - plastic injection molding design
RoyMech
SmartDraw - Mechanical/electrical schematic software ($197)
System Engineering “Toolbox” forDesign-Oriented Engineers
TradePub.com - free trade magazines & technical papers
WolframAlpha - Computational Knowledge Engine
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Design Software |
3-D Printers |
3-Printing Services |
Design Community Sites |
AutoDesk |
123D |
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Ponoko, ShapeWays (partnerships) |
Instructables |
3D Systems |
Alibre, Cubify, Invent |
Cube |
Cubify Cloud, 3DProparts |
Cubify |
PTC |
Creo Sketch |
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PlanetPTC |
MakerBot |
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Replicator2 |
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Thingiverse |
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