Starting a Company

• Starting a Company in CT - Resources
• TIP - Incubation Space and Services at UConn
• Resources in CT

Additional Programs/Funding Opportunities

• Summer Fellowship
• National I-Corps Program
• Get Seeded
• IQ
• Entrepreneur Innovation Awards
• Pitch
• START
• Spark
• UConn Innovation Fund
• VentureWell
  • Faculty Grants
  • Early Stage Innovators
• SBIR
• STTR

Videos

• Connecticut Innovations/TIP Startup Funding Opportunities - Part I
  Former CI Executive VP & Chief Innovation Officer, Jeremy Crisp, discusses various funding opportunities from CI for CT bioscience startups
• Connecticut Innovations/TIP Startup Funding Opportunities - Part II
  Mary Anne Rooke, Former CI Executive in Residence, outlines the CTNext Entrepreneur Innovation Award (EIA) program for entrepreneurial grants and CTNext’s resources available for promising CT technology start ups.

Links

• National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps)
• New York City Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN)
• Steve Blank's Udacity Courses
• Business Model Canvas

Other Resources

• Bio Pipeline CT, $1 million, two-year initiative provides up to $30,000 per project of much-needed gap funding to seedling companies or faculty and student groups associated with any Connecticut university.
• The "Best" Investor Pitch Deck Outline

Recommended Reading List:

• Business Model Generation
• Value Proposition Design
• The Startup Owner's Manual
• The Startup Checklist
• The Lean Startup

For UConn students and faculty, you have free access to these books through the UConn Library.

Contacts:

Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
University of Connecticut
100 Constitution Plaza, 3rd Floor
Hartford, CT 06103