Resources
News and Information
Business Insider / Alley Insider
NYC Convergence Tri-State digital media news
Help and Contacts
Gary’s Guide has an excellent set of startup resources covering funding sources, venues and co-working locations.
SCORE Small Business Mentoring
Startups.com a Q&A for Startups
There are also mailing lists attached to related Meetup and LinkedIn groups where you can often find FAQs and ask new questions.
Forms and Documents StartupBusiness.com has a range of standard documents.
InSITE Law students providing free consulting to startups on a venture funding route.
Blogs
Bootstrapper Richie Hecker’s blog
Tech Startups a tech startup blog
Unusual Business Ideas that Work Online Marketing
Customer Service that Astonishes
Inc’s Start-Up Content
Inc’s Your Business Toolbox
Project Marketplaces
freelancer.com – $19.95 per month. Very active community who respond quickly with quotes.
odesk.com – Some activity – Asks purchaser for initial project price disclosure. So prices are based more on budget constrained by specification than more watertight specifications. Tends to generate higher prices. Awkward bank registration process with transaction sizes as a check can cause delays.
Guru.com – Overly basic search facilities to search for vendors. Insists that you use their escrow service (2%) for new relationships.
eLance.com – Better vendor search tools but very little traffic on the site. There are some bugs in the account registration process.
99designs – Appears to waste designer’s time by asking for large numbers of examples.
Behance – Visual design work and portfolio presentation as well as task management.
ScriptLance – Technical programming tasks
Solvate – Task outsourcing (Unfortunately geographically restricted)
NYC (Active)
New York Small Business Service
NY EDC is the City’s economic development corporation
NYC’s Business Express carries information about starting a business in NYC
NYC (Unavailable)
Do-IT
The Urban Technology Development Center (For city properties) seems to have been renamed as an innovation center
NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center
NYC Media Lab (Opening 2010) have an empty web site
State
New York State Small Business Information
Federal
SBIR (Government grants and opportunities)
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