BUS 436

Entrepreneurial Finance

This Course Research Guide was developed to support course-specific research needs. Course guides are created through collaborative efforts between the Business Librarian and the instructor and focus on curricula and departmental learning outcomes.

Pratt's guide to private equity sources.
REF HG65 .G79
Provides accurate profiles and insightful editorial to help entrepreneurs raise capital, find the right venture capital firm to do deals with, and keep current on the industry and the competition. Over 4,400 listings offer contact information, capital under management, recent investments and more, plus four indexes by company, personnel, investment stage, and industry preferences enable users to hone their search and target the ideal firm with a minimum of effort.

NOTE: The introduction is MUST reading - an overview of the VC process from seed financing to preparing a business plan to legal considerations of forming a new enterprise.

Corporate Finance Sourcebook
REF HG4057 .A1565
Features more than 1,900 of today's top investment sources and 1,400 leading service firms including major private lenders and U.S. venture capital lenders.

The Directory of Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms
(Ordered Novemer 2005)
Grey House Publishing
"The most comprehensive reference on the Venture Capital Industry."

Book of Lists - California Companies
REF HF 5068 .07
Ask at the Reference Desk
The book contains lists of top companies, arranged by industry. Each listing includes: company name, address, telephone number, fax number (some cities - see market page for counts), contact person, job title, rank in list, and criteria for ranking (employees, revenues, etc.). The Kennedy Library owns the following metro areas/cities:

Los Angeles (Los Angeles Business Journal)
Orange Country (Orange County Business Journal)
San Diego (San Diego Business Journal)
San Francisco (San Francisco Business Times)
San Jose
Silicon Valley (Silicon Business Journal)

For Venture Capital Firms includes:

Firm name/ranking; Capital; Local investment; Project profile; Preferred industries; Industries not financed; Source of funds; Headquarters; and Top local executive contact information.
Sample companies:
Redpoint Ventures
Mellon Ventures

Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies (Print)
REF HG 4057 .A575
Whether it be for contacting a company or calculating its market share, the Ward's series is an invaluable tool for librarians, executives, students, analysts, marketers and all other professionals who require updated company and industry profiles. Your researchers will use Ward's to:

• Identify market participants and study market share
• Locate potential clients and create targeted mailing lists
• Determine parent/subsidiary relationships
• Analyze market position and find specific data on targeted companies

Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database (California ONLY)
This online database lists thousands of California companies. You can search by:

• Company (name, location, ticker, county, etc.)
• Industry (keyword, SIC, NAICS, etc.)
• Names (executive names, title, and/or biography)

D&B Million Dollar Directory is one of the best databases out there -it provides a wide range of output options including company rankings by SIC, ranking in a specific location, etc.)

The Kennedy Library holds a wide range of resources on venture capital, new ventures, small business management and many other related topics. Search PolyCAT - the online catalog - to locate sources. Suggested subject include:

Venture capital
Small business -- United States -- finance
Small business investment companies

Sample Titles:

Entrepreneur magazine : guide to raising money
HG 4751 .E58

The Venture magazine complete guide to venture capital
HG4751 .R52

Journal of Business Venturing
Available through Science Direct
Details research on entrepreneurship, either as independent start-ups or within existing corporations. More specifically, The Journal of Business Venturing provides a forum for the dissemination of superior empirical, and rigorously developed theoretical findings that advance our knowledge in four key areas: entrepreneurship, new business development, industry evolution, and technology management.

Venture Capital Journal
Available through ABI/Inform
Related Websites
www.venturecapitaljournal.net
www.ventureeconomics.com/

Advances in Entrepreneurship
Available through Science Direct

Entrepreneur
Available through Expanded Academic ASAP

Entrepreneur Column
Available through Lexis-Nexis

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Available through Expanded Academic ASAP

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
Available through ABI/Inform

Frank Vuotto, M.L.I.S., M.A.
Business & Agribusiness Librarian, Faculty
California Polytechnic State University
Robert E. Kennedy Library
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

fvuotto@calpoly.edu