Program Information
- TIA Summer Action Items
- TIA Venture Requirements
- 60-Second Elevator Pitch
- Customer Interview Guide
- Guidelines for Surveys to Colgate Constituents
- One-Pager Template
- Pitch Deck Template
- CrowdFunder - Investor Pitch Deck Template
- Basic Hiring Template
- Mentor Outreach Best Practices
- TIA Incubator on Your Resume/LinkedIn
Video and Presentation Archive
- Style Meets Substance in the Workplace: Nonverbal Strategies for Enhancing Rapport, Influence, and Charisma, presented by Carrie Keating, professor of psychology, Colgate University
- Hey, what's the big idea? Learn how to use surveys to validate the idea you want to make happen, Vice President for University Communications Daniel Devries
- Building a movement: social entrepreneurship, social change & investing in human capital, Maggie Dunne ’13, founder and CEO, Lakota Children's Enrichment; TIA alumna
- Demanding Your Value: How Smart Women Can Stop Settling for 75¢ on the Dollar, Deborah Tutnauer ’81, business coach and mentor
- Hustle, Swagger, and Building a Personal Brand , Sian Pierre Regis ’06, founder, Swagger
- Pause Before You Post: Don't Let Social Media Sabotage Your Career, Patrick Ambron, co-founder and CEO, BrandYourself.com
- Wiley Cerilli, Founder of Seamless and Good Uncle, Talks Food Startups
- The Democratization of Discovery in The Music Industry Through Data, Shav Garg ’15, co-founder and CEO, Indify; TIA alumnus
External Resources
Local and in-person resources:
- Onondoga SBDC - provides free advising for startups and small businesses, events, and connections to local professionals (legal, taxes, banking, etc.)
- Partnership for Community Development - Hamilton-based organization providing events, resources, and advice for local small businesses and startups
Online resources:
- Techstars Entrepreneur's Toolkit
- Video Series: “How to Start a Startup," from Y Combinator and Stanford
- Comprehensive list from Steve Blank of thousands of startup tools and services
- Andreessen Horowitz YouTube channel with advice from founders
- Y Combinator Startup Playbook
- 300 Best Tools And Resources For Entrepreneurs
- Analyzo startup tool search engine
- Hacker News - user generated tech news
- TechCrunch - startup news
- Crunchbase - track companies, their investors and more
- AngelList - see who’s raising capital, who’s hiring and who’s investing
- First Round Review - active blog from top-tier VC
- Fred Wilson (AVC) - great entrepreneurship mind
- Paul Graham - great entrepreneurship mind
- Steve Blank - great entrepreneurship mind
- Clay Christensen - great entrepreneurship mind
- How I Built This? - The stories behind the world's best known companies. A narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists— and the movements they built.
- UVC Entrepreneurship Events Calendar - startup events in Upstate NY
- Investors Field Guide - This site is an ongoing investigation into stocks, markets, investing strategies, and ways of thinking
- Pro-Rata - important newsletter to follow with daily fundraises and startup stories
- Term Sheet - important newsletter to follow with daily fundraises and startup stories
- StrictlyVC - all the venture capital new you need to start your day
- Crunchbase Daily - important newsletter to follow with daily fundraises and startup stories
- The MBA is Dead - The MBA Is Dead is the world’s most comprehensive database of startup accelerators.
- Lessons From a Study of Perfect Pitch Decks, TechCrunch
- The Formula for the Perfect Pitch from Y Combinator, Quartz
- The Only 10 Slides You Need In A Pitch, Guy Kawasaki
- The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
- Competing Against Luck - Clay Christensen
- The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
- All Marketers Are Liars - Seth Godin
- Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank
- Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder
- Ten Types of Innovation - Larry Keeley
- Effectual Entrepreneurship - Saras Sarasvathy
- Start With Why - Simon Sinek
- Hubspot Academy - tons of value-add certification on marketing, sales, etc., that will help you grow your venture
- HubSpot for Startups - discount program for startups
- Hubspot’s "Ultimate guide to creating a sales process"
- Hubspot’s "How to master the connect call"
- Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing and "Jobs to be Done" Framework
- Overcoming objections from Decision Making Units (DMUs)
- Inbound Sales Certification Course - Hubspot course on inbound sales
- FuzeHub - connecting New York State manufacturers to a network of experts who help small-to-medium companies overcome obstacles to growth.
- Chenango Valley Tech - manufacturing a plastic product? Call these guys just down the road
- ThomasNet - search engine for suppliers for products and services nationwide
- Nelson Farms - consulting and food processing support in Morrisville
- Resources for Food Ventures from Cornell
- Cornell Food Science 4000 - food startups get consulting from food science students at Cornell
- Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship - more targeted testing and services for startup food companies
Funding Resources
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
- General Catalyst
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
- Union Square Ventures
- Accel Partners
- Learn Capital
- Redpoint Ventures
- Greylock Partners
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Khosla Ventures
- New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
- Sequoia
- RRE Ventures
- Google Ventures
- Horizons Ventures
- Index Ventures
- Astia
- Authentic Ventures
- Backstage Capital
- BBG (Built By Girls) Ventures
- Black Girl Ventures
- BLCK VC
- Chloe Capital
- Collab Capital
- Female Founders Fund
- Founder Gym
- Golden Seeds
- Harlem Capital Partners
- Hypatia Capital
- Impact America Fund
- Intel Capital Diversity Fund
- Kindred Ventures
- Lightship Capital
- MaC Venture Capital
- Mergelane
- Next Wave Impact
- One Way Ventures
- Tory Burch Foundation Capital Program
- Valor Ventures