Resources
Websites
- The Capital Network
http://www.thecapitalnetwork.org
The Capital Network is a community for entrepreneurs seeking between $50K and $4M who are building fundable businesses toward an exit strategy. It is also a community for angel investors - latent, active, affiliated or unaffiliated - who are seeking acumen, information or exposure to entrepreneurial ventures.
- RISE Social Entrepreneur CEO Directory
http://www.riseproject.org/cgi-bin/rise_build_ceo_search.pl
Use this searchable database to find contact, mission and biographical information for over 200 for-profit CEOs and managers surveyed in the RISE / Investors' Circle / Social Venture Network For-Profit Social Entrepreneur Report.
The directory includes information about CEOs and top managers of for-profit companies who participated in our survey of social entrepreneurs in 2003/2004. All of the managers identified themselves as entrepreneurs working to lead their companies to provide both financial returns and positive social value. These entrepreneurs also started their companies in 1984 or later. Companies were invited to update their directory information in 2006.
- Center for Women and Enterprise in Boston
http://www.cweonline.org
Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women's business development agencies. CWE's mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. CWE has served over 12,000 entrepreneurs. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development. Their clients are drawn from a wide variety of racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, spanning the range from women living in public housing who may want to start home-based or small retail businesses to women running fast growth, multi-million dollar technology businesses. As a non-profit, charitable organization, CWE provides scholarships for its services in order to serve all women, regardless of their ability to pay.
- Center For Women's Business Research
www.womensbusinessresearch.org
Center for Women's Business Research is the premier source of knowledge about women business owners and their enterprises worldwide. The Center's mission is to unleash the economic potential of women entrepreneurs by conducting research, sharing information and increasing knowledge about this fast-growing sector of the economy.
- Springboard Enterprises
www.springboardenterprises.org
Springboard Enterprises is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating women's access to the equity markets. The organization produces programs that educate, showcase and support entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies. They promote women's entrepreneurial development through alliances, partnerships and direct programming. This includes targeted education and coaching, strategic connections with investors, community building efforts and venture capital forums that showcase women entrepreneurs.
- United States Small Business Administration
www.sba.gov
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. We recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace. The Women's Business Center provides counseling, advice and information on starting, better operating or expanding a small business through the Service Corps of Retired Executives.
- Count Me In
www.countmein.org
Count Me In champions the cause for women's economic independence by providing access to business loans, consultation and education. The first online microlender, Count Me In uses a unique women-friendly credit scoring system to make loans of $500 to $10,000 available to women across the United States who have nowhere to turn for that all-important first business loan. In 2005 Count Me In launched the hugely successful Make Mine a Million Dollar Business program. To register as an aspiring million dollar businesswoman, go to www.makemineamillion.org.
- Small Business Television
www.sbtv.com
SBTV is the first television network on the web devoted 100 percent to the small business market - from business start-ups to established enterprises. We believe that being an entrepreneur is a way of living - not just a way to make a living.
- investorwords.com
www.investorwords.com
Launched in 1999, InvestorWords is the premier financial glossary on the web, helping millions of individuals understand and keep up-to-date with the terms that they need to know in order to succeed in today's financial world.
- Womenable.com
www.womenable.com
Womenable - established in 2005 - is a research, program and policy development consultancy whose mission is to enable women's entrepreneurship worldwide.
- National Center for Women in IT
www.ncwit.org
The National Center for Women & Information Technology ensures that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology and computing.
Magazines
Books
- Angel Investing
Matching Start-up Funds with Start-up Companies The Guide for Entrepreneurs, Individual Investors, and Venture Capitalists
Authors: Mark Van Osnabrugge and Robert J. Robinson, Harvard Business School
- Winning Angels
The Seven Fundamentals of Early-Stage Investing
Authors: David Amis and Howard Stevenson
