A-to-Z Index


Resources

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Business

Shenandoah Valley Business Link
Resource guide designed to help entrepreneurs as well as business students and educators in the Shenandoah Valley find useful, reliable information.

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute
Offers programs, courses, workshops and competitions to help aspiring entrepreneurs learn how to bring their ideas and products to the world. We help faculty, student, and regional entrepreneurs create successful ventures. We help companies solve vital challenges and develop top-selling products that improve and save lives by connecting them with resources to succeed.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship.gov
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) have formed a new public-private partnership focused on leveraging best practices in entrepreneurial leadership to advance economic growth around the world.

Legal

onecle
California CLE / MCLE provider.  Business contracts and competitive intelligence for investors.

Licensing

National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has created Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P), a virtual space for NIH licensees and NIH SBIR/STTR awardees to showcase technology and product development for an audience of potential strategic partners and investors. The site helps NIH in advancing its mission by furthering the development of its own licensed technologies or those for which it has provided SBIR/STTR funding.

Prototyping

Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) :: Dwight Dart
Founded in 2001, by Virginia Tech and James Madison University, the Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) Product Realization Lab provides your company with a single prototype for further design and testing, or batch quantities of functional plastic parts. This process offers significant reduction in time from idea to part, allowing your company to stay a step ahead of the competition.

Research

Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (IIIA) :: Cheryl Elliott
The Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (IIIA) facilitates development, coordination, integration and funding of homeland security activities and capabilities of the James Madison University academic community to enhance information and critical infrastructure assurance at the federal, state and local levels.

Trade Show Displays & Booths

Trade Show Direct
Specializing in the manufacture and production of trade show displays, large format graphics, and the distribution of the best accessories on the market.  Constantly working to provide the newest and best products available at prices that are fair and affordable, and in the fastest time possible.

Venture Capital

VC in DC Blog :: Don Rainey
Don Rainey is a general partner with Grotech Ventures Located in the greater D.C. area, Don identifies and evaluates information technology investment opportunities.

 

- CONTACTS -


Grant Writing

 Blaire Price
Boys & Girls Club
   

Prototyping

 Dwight Dart
JMU - Rapid Prototyping Lab
   

Business Plans

 Carol Hamilton
JMU Center for Entrepreneurship
  Gerard Eldering
InnovateTech Ventures
  Henry Reeves
Small Business Development Center
  SCORE
Service Corps of Retired Executives
   

Intellectual Property (Patents)  

 Jerry Lawrence
Patent Project Group
  Jeff Thomas
Shine Systems & Technologies