Web Resources

• Aerospace Business Development Center

• Business Forum On-Line

• BRINT (Business Research in Technology)

• CCH's Business Owners Toolkit

• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs  

• Garage.Com is "dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and investors build great businesses" and is the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki of Apple fame.

• Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA)

• Invention Dimension (MIT) 

• Maryland One-Stop Shop for Business Assistance

• National Association of Seed and Venture Funds

• National Business Incubation Association (NBIA holds conferences and training sessions, publishes books, and maintains databases designed to help "small businesses grow".)

• National Commission on Enterpreneurship

• National Society of Professional Engineers

• Network Professionals Association (NPA)

• Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA)

• RealRates -- Resources for Computer Consultants

• IRS Resources for Small Business Owners and the Self-Employed

• Small Business Knowledge Base

• SmallBusiness Focus (search engine for small business/entrepreneurs)

• smallbizNET (Edward Lowe Foundation)

• Venture Capital Marketplace

• Venture Capital Resource Library

• Women's Bureau (Department of Labor)

• Yahoo! Small Business
   

Government Assistance and Procurement Opportunities

• Commerce Business Daily is the official source for notices of Federal procurement and contract opportunities. The Government Printing Office's CBDNet extracts and publishes these notices on-line in a searchable format.

• Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) -- Organized in 1974 and formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 to promote and to strengthen technology transfer nationwide, the FLC is comprised of more than 700 major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies.

• National Technology Transfer Center is your window to access technical assistance and technologies with commercial potential from the U.S. government.

• Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR).

• Tax Information for Business from the Internal Review Service.

• U.S. Business Advisor

• U.S. Small Business Administration
   

Legal and Intellectual Property Resources

• FindLaw on Intellectual Property

• IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Committee

• Inventure Place--National Inventors Hall of Fame

• Netpreneur Exchanges' Intellectual Property Resource Center

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

For more information on IEEE-USA's Consultant Services, the Alliance of IEEE Consultants' Networks Coordinating Committee, or how to start your own local IEEE Consultants' Network, contact:

Scott D. Grayson
IEEE-USA
1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1202
Washington, DC 20036-5104
(Office) 202/785-0017
(Fax) 202/785-0835
(Email) s.grayson@ieee.org

 

Updated:  15 May 2007
Contact: Scott Grayson, s.grayson@ieee.org