RESOURCES

BUSINESS PLAN

Bplans.com

FUNDRAISING

How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Tapping the Military Opportunity with Bobby Mack (by Blue Startups)

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Startup Capital

LAW AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Business Law Corps Website

Restart Hawaii Webinar Series (Business Law Corps)

Google Patent Search

Intellectual Property Workshop (video)

Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property

Ten Things You Need to Know to Protect Your Company and Brand (video)

LEAN METHODOLOGY

Business Model Canvas Overview

Business Model Canvas

Conducting Customer Discovery Interviews with Steve Blank

Mission Model Canvas

Customer Interviewing Advice: Customer Dev Labs

Running Lean

Steve Blank’s Startup Tools and Blog

True Product Market Fit is a Minimum Viable Company

Udacity: How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad

Value Proposition Canvas

PITCHING

Black Design 150 Second Pitch Tool (Beta)

How To Create A Great Investor Pitch Deck For Startups Seeking Financing

Seven Components of a Powerful Pitch

The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint

The only 10 slides you need in a pitch

RESEARCH

Business Research Guides, UH Mānoa Library

eMarketer

UH Library Online Databases (log in required)
IBIS World (Industry Information Database)

SICCODE

U.S. Census Data

SimplyAnalytics Database (Data Demographics)

U.S. Department of Commerce

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network

Oahu Business Connector

Small Business Administration

Y Combinator Startup Library

TEAM BUILDING

StartupTree

Team Alignment Map

UH RESOURCES

UH Office of Technology Transfer Technology Search

STARTUP TOOLS

Amazon Web Services Activate 

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