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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WITHIN PENN:

Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
Engineering Entrepreneurship Program
PENN Center for Technology Transfer
The Graduate/Undergraduate Mentoring Program

EXTERNAL RESOURCES:

Potential Funding Sources:

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
http://www.sba.gov/sbir/
http://www.eere.energy.gov/inventions/financial.html
http://www.commerce.gov/grants.html
http://www.eda.gov/InvestmentsGrants/Investments.xml
http://www.garage.com -- For finding angel investors

Entrepreneur Resources:

http://www.score.org -- Service Corps of Retired Executives
This is SCORE's Cyberchapter, offering free email counseling / mentoring to small businesses (including pre-startups & inventors).
http://www.nolo.com -- Legal self-help
http://www.nawbo.org/index.php -- National Associatin of Women Business Owners
http://www.c-e-o.org -- Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization
http://www.nationalconsortium.org -- National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC)
http://www.aeeg.com/ -- American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth

Startup Handbooks

http://www.toolkit.cch.com
http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/guides-list.php

Directories

http://www.census.gov/pub/epcd/www/naics.html -- NAICS (was SIC codes)
http://www.thomasregister.com -- Manufacturers
http://www.harrisinfo.com -- Manufacturers (by state)
http://www.tsnn.com -- Trade shows
http://www.manaonline.org -- Sales reps
http://www.vfinance.com -- Venture capital
http://www.guidestar.org -- Non-profits
http://www.fdncenter.org -- Non-profits

Intellectual Property

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright -- U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.uspto.gov -- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35 -- U.S. Patent Law (USC Title 35)
http://www.piug.org/select.html -- Links to foreign patent sites
http://www.google.com/patents -- Google Patents: Search over millions of patents!

Invention Evaluation Services

http://www.inventorservices.com
http://www.wini2.com

Inventor Groups / Sites

http://www.uiausa.org -- National umbrella organization
http://www.toy-tma.org -- Toy manufacturers association
http://www.inventored.org -- Ron Riley's site, home of the InvEd-L inventors' forum.
http://www.inventnet.com -- Victor Lavrov's site, home of the I-Net inventors' forum.
http://www.inventorfraud.com
http://www.tenonline.org

Philadelphia Business Resources

http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/ -- Periodical Journal About Business around Philadelphia
http://www.sba.gov/pa/phil/
http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs.html#mp-12
http://www.ipphila.com -- Innovation Philadelphia
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dsoea/index.html -- Drexel Entrepreneur Association
http://www.efgp.org/ -- Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/48/ -- Philadelphia Entrepreneur Meetup Group
http://www.philadelphiaentrepreneur.com/
http://www.gp-biz.com/id452.htm -- Greater Philadelphia business online

Incorporating A Business

Pennsylvania: http://www.paopen4business.state.pa.us/paofb/site/default.asp/
New Jersey: http://www.nj.gov/njbusiness/start/ryb/
New York: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/filing.html
Delaware: http://www.corp.delaware.gov/howtoform.shtml