General Commercial Readiness Resources
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Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank
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The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
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The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen
Team Development Resources
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Engineering Gene Pool by Wald Siskens
General Funding Assistance Resources
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Access to Capital by California Financial Opportunities
Public-Sector Funding Resources
Private-Sector Funding Resources
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High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies by John L. Nesheim
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Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang
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Pitching Hacks: The Book by Venture Hacks, Inc.
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Intellectual Property Resources
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A general approach for determining when to patent, publish, or protect information as a trade secret, in Nature Biotechnology 20, 1053 - 1054 (2002)
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Intellectual Property Strategies for New UC Berkeley Ventures: A Framework
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MIT Inventor’s Guide to Technology Transfer