Cool Tools Entrepreneurs Should Know About

1. Brand Bucket - Ready Made Branding
2. Inkd - Ready-made business collateral
3. Legal Zoom - Legal Formations Made Easy
4. Brand Stack - Ready to go branding and domains
5. Get Satisfication - Customer service and community support made easy
6. Google Apps - Mail, Documents, Spreadsheet, Wiki, Chat all tied to your domain
7. Basecamp -  Project Management Made Simple
8. Highrise - CRM and Contact Management
9. Executive Book Summaries - Call it Cliff notes for executives. Popular books summarized into 8 pages
10. Help a Reporter Out - An email list you can join, which sends out several emails a day with notices of stories for which reporters need a source. 

Blogs For Entrepreneurs

1. Start-up Nation - StartupNation provides real-world business advice to people who want to start a business and who want to grow their small businesses.
2. Go Big Network Blog - Entrepreneur's blog by Wil Schroter
3. How to Change the World - Guy Kawasaki's blog on business, venture capital and entrepreneurship.
4. Small Business Trends - An award-winning online publication for small business owners, entrepreneurs and the people who interact with them.
5. All Business - How-to advice, analysis, and commentary from experts in all areas of business.
6. Small Business Brief - Provides daily updates of the best small business articles.
7. Inc. Magazine Blog - The business and entrepreneurship blog for Inc. magazine.
8. Workhappy.net - WorkHappy.net is a labor of love for fellow entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, freelancers, consultants and lone wolves
9. Duct Tape Marketing - Small business marketing coaching and consulting ideas and strategies that are simple, effective and affordable.
10. On Start-ups - An online community and blog for startup entrepreneurs.
11. Venture Beat - VentureBeat’s mission is to provide news about innovation for forward-thinking executives
12. A VC - Blog by long time VC Fred Wilson.
13. Venture Voice - A podcast that explores how entrepreneurs build their businesses and live their lives. 

Top Web Sites For Entrepreneurs

1. Entrepreneur Magazine
2. Inc Magazine
3. Wall Street Journal Small Business
4. Fast Company
5. Small Business Trends
6. The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
7. Businessweek Small Business
8. About.com Entrepreneur Resource

Great Ways Increase Your Entrepreneurial Knowledge

1. PBS Business School - Small Business School is a weekly, half-hour television show that began in 1994 and has been airing ever since. PBS has archived all the episodes here.
2. The Personal MBA - The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. If you're serious about learning advanced business principles, the Personal MBA can help you master business.
3. Stanford E Corner - The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) Entrepreneurship Corner is a free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning 

Articles Entrepreneurs Should Read

1. 100 Best Small Business Podcasts - Want alternative content for your Itunes library? This article is a detailed list of 100 business related podcasts
2. Why Your Web Start-up Will Fail - Getting your start-up off the ground will be tough. You'll need to find creaetive ways to keep building, improving, and trying to get the thing to profitability. This article details some of the reasons this doesn't happen for some people
3. The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business - It's always useful to look at the mistakes other people made when starting your business. This article contains a list of common mistakes that entrepreneurs make so that you can avoid them.
4. 10 Ways To Know You're An Entrepreneur - So you think you have the entrepreneurial bug? How do you know. This article says there are 10 things you should consider.
5. 4 Rules For The Practical Entrepreneur - There are two types of entrepreneurs in this world visionary and practical. 
6. Entrepreneurial Proverbs - A set of "proverbs" collected by the author over the years.
7. Tools For Customer Service - a great list of tools that any entrepreneur can use to keep up with and take care of their customers.
8. Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success - Loic is an accomplished entrepreneur - he founded uBlog and has now created Seesmic. He offers ten rules that he feels you should be successful and an entrepreneur.
9. Top 10 Signs You're Made to be an Entrepreneur - Another 10 ways to know you're made to be an entrepreneur.
10. Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First! - So you think you're ready to take the leap and be an entrepreneur? Here are some things you should know before you jump in.
11. 11 Principles of Entrepreneurial Leadership - Most people aren't naturally adapt at leading other people. As an entrepreneur you will have to delegate tasks at some point. This article offers some great tips on how to make leading easier for you and the people you lead.
12. You Aren't Crazy, You're Just an Entrepreneur - You've made the leap and are starting to wonder whether you are crazy. This article describes some of the phases you will go through early on in your start-up and offers some recommendations of what you should do.
13. 101 Resources For Online Entrepreneurs - Another great list of online resources.
14. 7 Teeth-Gnashing Mistakes I Made as an Entrepreneur - A really good list of things to avoid doing early on based on the mistakes made by one entrepreneur.
15. How To Raise Venture Capital
16. 13 Seed Funding Options For Entrepreneurs
17. Traits Of The Successful Entrepreneur
18. 18 Mistakes That Kill Start-ups
19. 10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company 

Great Slide Shows on Slideshare

1. The Brand Gap - How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design
2. Sales Eye For The Non-Profit Guy - If you aren't a natural sales person, this presentation has some great tips for learning this important skill.
3. Think Like A Designer - Design as a discipline is important for every entrepreneur to know here are ten tips from designers that will teach you to think like a designer.
4. Shift Happens - This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century.
5. The Force Behind Star Wars: Turning Design Ideas into Reality - You’ve got an idea. Maybe it’s a new idea for a web application. Maybe it’s a new product idea you need to push through your organization. The question is: How do you turn an idea into reality?
6. Pitching Tips: presentation tips from The Pitching Coach - This is a remix of tips and advice from David S. Rose's presentations on how to pitch to a VC for money.
7. Visual And Creative Thinking: What We Learned From Willy Wonka - Presentation that explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children.
8. What The F*ck Is Social Media: One Year Later - An Introduction To Social Media 
9. Storytelling 101 - Tips and tricks on how to create better stories for your next presentation.
10. Starbucks Tribal Knowledge - Starbucks Tribal Knowledge shares some of the principles that have made Starbucks an endearing and enduring brand.
11. Rock Bands, Guitar Heroes And Management Theory- In this presentation, the music industry is used to describe four organizational archetypes—each with a different set of values and way of working.
12. Unlocking Cool - By methodically approaching innovation, organizations and individuals can generate ideas, stimulate creativity, and ultimately unlock cool.

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