Starting a Company

• Starting a Company in CT: Business Checklist
• TIP - Incubation Space and Services at UConn

 

Additional Programs/Funding Opportunities

• Summer Fellowship
• National I-Corps Program
• Get Seeded
• IQ
• Entrepreneur Innovation Awards
• Spark
• 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.

 

Additional Resources

• BioCT – Connecting Connecticut's BioScience Community
• National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps)
• Steve Blank's Udacity Courses
• Business Model Canvas

 

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

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

 

Contacts:

ccei@uconn.edu

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