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Entrepreneurship Resources

Another way we help our students develop and execute their ideas is by introducing them to and integrating them with a ready network. We created this list so our students can find resources that fit their specific interests and needs as their ideas develop. In many cases, we have contacts at these organizations and can provide introductions.

Note: This curated list is designed as a convenient student resource. We do not represent it as complete and we are not promoting any product, person, service, ethic or opinion by listing them here.

Some links are career related. For a robust list of career sites, please visit the Career Center website, including this link for Helpful Career Resources.

Students: When any outside money involved is via a grant, please email Kelly DelFatti in the Sponsored Research Office.

We are continuously adding to this list. If you would like to suggest a link be added or amended, please email Chryshutchings@lclark.edu

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Competitions/Incubators/Accelerators
Funding Sources/Angel Groups/Entrepreneurial Resources/Support
Tools, Blogs, Podcasts, Resources and Classes for Entrepreneurs
Training for Public Service/Community Impact
Networking, Gigs and Jobs (including skills workshops)
Diversity
Articles/Sites of Interest

1. Competitions/Incubators/Accelerators

OEN

ASES Summit

Dempsey Startup Competition

Lemelson-MIT Prize

Portland Mini Maker Fair - venue for showing off your project

Oregon Startup Center

Global Innovation Challenge (WMGIC)

TechStars Seattle *also come to Portland!

List of largest business Incubators and Accelerators in Oregon & S.W. Washington

Y Combinator (tons of info!)

Chobani Incubator - Better food for more people

Collegiate Inventors Competition

Oregon Technology Business Center and the West Side Startup Challenge

Food Innovation Center

Elemental Excelerator - Nonprofit Social Impact Accelerator

OBI - Oregon Biosciences Incubator

(Note that many funders and support groups provide funding, competitions, mentor programs, incubators, accelerators, training programs, etc. so look at the links below as well.)

2. Funding Sources/Angel Groups/Entrepreneurial Resources/Support

OVF - Oregon Venture Fund (formerly called Oregon Angel Fund)

OEN

Angel Oregon Bio - BioScience Startup

Portland Seed Fund

Pioneer Square Labs - Seattle-Based Accelerator

Database of Funding Sources for Underserved Entrepreneurs

Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI)

The Redd on Salmon

Cascade Seed Fund

VertueLab - Helping Oregon tech start-ups obtain federal grants

Seven Peaks Ventures

Oregon Capital Scan 2020 - a report and analysis of capital flows and availability in Oregon 2018-20

Kauffman Foundation - Entrepreneur support

Venture for America

The Silicon Forest - Find jobs, research companies, and stay up to date with Oregon tech news

Capital pathways for entrepreneurs in different sectors *good article

Comprehensive list of sources of capital in Oregon

State of Oregon’s list of financing and resources

Oregon BEST - List of funding and resources

Guide for Entrepreneurs or Graduates with a Disability

The investing network for Founders, VCs, Scouts, and Angels

Pitch Book - Research and analyze

Crunchbase - Discover innovative companies and the people behind them

Overseas Private Investment Corp

PayPal, Square and Kabbage

One Million Cups-Portland - Weekly community coffee and talk about startups

Founder University - Two day curriculum for growth, fundraising and pitch strategies

OEN tradeshow

Watzek Guide to Entrepreneurial Resources

4 Legal Leads - Resources for women owned businesses

XXCELERATE Fund for Women

The Tech Crunch List - a directory of the most active and engaged investors in the VC world today

Rogue Venture Partners

Willamette Angel Conference

Madrona Venture Group

Providence Ventures

SVB-Silicon Valley Bank

Patagonia-Tin Shed: Funding the Next Generation of Responsible Businesses

Patagonia Action Works-connecting environmentally responsible people with grantees

Social Capital - Philanthropists, technologists, and capitalists utilizing venture capital as a force to create value and change on a global scale

Red Bull Launch Institute

Scaling Pathways - Resources to scale social impact

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding

Circle Up - Venture Capital for Consumer Brand Innovation

HP Tech Ventures

Business Xpress (State of Oregon) including Start Up Toolkit and Start a Business video series

Portland Apparel Lab - Create prototypes, small runs

Craft3 - Loans for those without access to traditional financing

Elevate Capital - Venture capital for underserved communities

Portland Business Alliance

Slavin Family Foundation - Support, mentorship & scholarship to select students

VertueLab - Helping tech startups win Federal Grants

How to Choose the Right Funding Option for Your Small Business

How To Create a Startup Budget + Free Template

Westly Prize for Social Innovation * For California residents

Voyager Capital *Seattle

Flying Fish *Seattle

Food, beverage, and related tech-focused funding (2017 food/bev start-up report) (angel investors):

Campbell’s Soup – Acre Venture Partners operates independently of the corporate but is LP
Boulder Food Group - Early-stage food ventures
Coca-Cola – VEB - The Company’s corporate venturing arm invested in a range of drinks companies
Danone – The newly launched Danone Manifesto Ventures supports companies that promote healthy, sustainable eating that emphasize the cultural diversity encompassed by alimentation
General Mills – 301 Inc. is the company’s venturing unit
Hain Celestial – Cultivate Ventures
Kellogg’s – Eighteen94 Capital - Kellogg’s corporate venture arm managed by Touchdown Ventures
McCain Foods – Invests directly
Mars – Digitalis Ventures focuses on technologies tackling human health and wellbeing
Nestlé – Inventages - Nutrition and wellness-focused venture capital fund
Tate & Lyle – Tate & Lyle Ventures is managed externally by the sugar company and invests in renewable ingredients, food technologies, biomaterials, and industrial processing technologies
Tyson Foods – Tyson New Ventures is the food company’s corporate venture arm
711 – 7-Ventures is the company’s corporate venture arm investing in consumer-facing technologies across sectors and not necessarily in food
First Beverage Group – Revenues have to be $1 million to $10 million
Khosla Ventures – Mainly invests in technology and innovative projects
21 Investors *Europe-based
2X Partners – Food, bev, personal care, home care, pet care, etc. with $1mm – $15mm revenue
Inventages – Life-sciences, nutrition, healthy beverage and wellness-focused
Unilever Ventures – Well-known, focused on young and promising companies
Gastro Ventures – Focus on “high-touch” early-stage food and beverage opportunities that fall outside the target of traditional investment models
Great Oaks – Active seed investors
Tate & Lyle Ventures LP – Technology in Food and Beverage industry
Seventure – European start-ups with high growth potential
Pear – Start up help
JMK Consumer Growth Partners – Growth capital investments in branded consumer businesses
Encore Consumer Capital – Focused on the consumer products industry
Catterton – All major consumer segments, including Food and Beverage, Retail and Restaurants, Consumer Products and Services, and Media and Marketing Services
ACG Investors – High-growth companies
Distill Ventures – Only invests in alcoholic drinks of all types, except beer and wine
Lion Capital – A global business, with a focus on Europe and North America.
- Accelerators:
  
  nextaccelerator.com/welcome
  
  ennovationcenter.com
  
  goodfoodaccelerator.org.
  
  Crowdsource:
  kickstarter.com
  
  indiegogo.com
  
  circleup.com
  
  gust.com/startups

3. Tools, Blogs, Podcasts, Resources and Classes for Entrepreneurs

AI Learning for Design

5 Tips for Career Preparation with Generative AI

Startup Equity Simulation Tool

Glossary of Business Terms for Entrepreneurs

Start Up Acronyms and Jargon Defined

Canvanizer - Free online startup business plan tool

Model/Spreadsheet to Simplify Execution of a Business Idea

Startup Software Guide

My First Million - Podcast with Anand Sanwal laying out parameters of good companies to create

Complexity and Community Change - A free book about Social Entrepreneurship ventures

Entrepreneurial Learning by the Kauffman Foundation

Venture Capitalist’s Advice for Entrepreneurs

Writing Social Venture Business Plans

C alagator - Portland’s Tech Calendar

Technical Training for Liberal Arts Students

PickFu - Consumer insight

1Q - Mobile research platform

Suzy - Market research platform

Worldpositive.com - The-world-positive-term-sheet

Portland Business Journal

Great resource for EShip tools/blogs

Ten Podcasts for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

Medium - Find insightful and dynamic thinking *subscription

A Guide To Venture Capital Financings For Startups

Free Udacity class: How to Build a Startup

2.5 day program for teaching Lean

B Corporation Resources

Rubric for evaluating idea/opportunity-UMich

24 EShip podcasts

Which Start-Up To Work For

Pricing a product

Rick Turoczy’s blog - The pulse of the Portland tech/creative community

How to start a blog

Bloks - Build and test your applications

Creative Mornings

Take a class from a master - $95 Masterclass.com

Social Impact Financing article

Samples of ideas for ventures

Sirius XM channel 111 *Wharton

Entrepreneurs’ Organization

Starve Ups

OTBC

Newtech Pdx

Technology Association of Oregon TAO

SCORE-Portland

Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon

The Business Outreach Program at Portland State University

Small Business Administration *Portland

VentureWell’s E-Team

Oregon Community Foundation

Business Oregon

Lemelson Foundation

Northwest Health Foundation

Oregon Small Business Development Network

Venturewell Open 2018 Conference

ISAM 2018 - International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces

Portland Business Alliance

The World Factbook - CIA’s site for history, people, gov’t, economy, community, transportation, and transnational issues for 267 world entities

Quick entrepreneurship tips - Stanford

Quick entrepreneurship tips - *Stanford

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Workplace Friction and Innovation podcasts

VentureWell Innovator Insight Series

Donuts and tech talk in Portland

Unified Calendar of all tech events in Portland

Health Care Problem Solving WTF Conference (What’s the Fix?)

Portland StartUp Community Events

OEN Events

OEN Community Event *Calendar

Portland Business Alliance Small Business Scholarship Program

Built Oregon- A not-for-profit organization supporting the OR consumer goods industry

Meet the Startup - A series of video interviews with local founders

Open Source Bridge an annual event for open-source citizens

Oregon Story Board - A not-for-profit dedicated to furthering digital storytelling in Oregon, which has now focused on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

PIE - An ongoing experiment exploring the potential for mutually beneficial collaboration between the Portland startup community and more well-established entities like corporations, government, and educational institutions

PIE Cookbook - An open-source framework for creating a startup accelerator

Portland Startups Switchboard - A 4000+ members helping one another

Portland Startup Week

1776 Challenge Cup Portland - Showcases Portland’s startups on a global stage

Silicon Florist job board - Connecting awesome people with awesome companies

TechfestNW - The premier tech and startup conference in Oregon

Business for a Better Portland

Design Week Portland

Oregon Entrepreneurs Network

PDX Maker Week

Portland Lunch 2.0

Portland Startup Weekend