Entrepreneur Resources

Creating successful companies is not just about action. It is also about the planning, strategy and critical components that create opportunities. The links below provide some of the best resources for building your company, raising investment funding, and avoiding failure.

Books

	The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
A great guide for "anyone starting anything"

	Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
One of the best books on high-tech marketing

	Entrepreneurial Finance by James Stancill
A hands-on, step-by-step approach that is easy to follow even for non-financial types

	Living on the Fault Line by Geoffrey Moore
Another insightful book by Moore on understanding how customers think

	The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
How to take an unknown concept and product to the mass market

Local Southern California Organizations

CalTech / MIT Enterprise Forum

Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives

Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County

Pasadena Entretec

Web Sites, Articles and Tools

Garage Technology Ventures

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - eVenturing

MIT Enterprise Forum

PricewaterhouseCoopers Vision to Reality

socalTECH

PricewaterhouseCoopers Vision to Reality