General Commercial Readiness Resources

• Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder

• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore 

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank 

• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen 

• The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen  

Team Development Resources

• Engineering Gene Pool by Wald Siskens

General Funding Assistance Resources

• Access to Capital by California Financial Opportunities 

Public-Sector Funding Resources

• Grants.gov 

Private-Sector Funding Resources

• High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies by John L. Nesheim

• Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang 

• Pitching Hacks: The Book by Venture Hacks, Inc. 

• Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson 

Intellectual Property Resources

• A general approach for determining when to patent, publish, or protect information as a trade secret, in Nature Biotechnology 20, 1053 - 1054 (2002)

• ARPA-E Patent Guide

• Intellectual Property Strategies for New UC Berkeley Ventures: A Framework

• MIT Inventor’s Guide to Technology Transfer