Pritzker Legal Research Center: Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center (DPELC) Research Guide: Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

ABI-INFORM (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
[I]ncludes important full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports. Dates of coverage: 1971 to present.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
"[P]rovides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more."

BizBuySell
Look up the value of businesses for sale nationwide. Also has an 'alert' feature so you can receive new listings by email.

Entrepreneurship Law by Esther S. Barron; Stephen F. Reed
Call Number: Law Library: Reserve (Circulation Desk) Barron Reed Entrepreneurship Law Spring 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Modern cases highlight the legal principles involving parties and situations that are entrepreneurial in nature in this one-of-a kind text. Students are presented with solid doctrine in the various disciplines covered in Entrepreneurship Law and come to understand their interrelatedness. A chronological approach, from the conception of the idea through all stages of the business, includes potential exit strategies such as the sale of the venture or an initial public offering. Hypotheticals based on the authors' vast experience as practicing attorneys focus on the very real issues entrepreneurs face. The authors teach at Northwestern Law, well-known for its entrepreneurship course, which is one of the longest-running in the U.S. Entrepreneurship Law: Cases and Materials is the only law school casebook of its kind.
Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship by Shubha Ghosh (Editor); Robin Paul Malloy (Editor)
Call Number: MON K1401 .C73 2011 (Law Library)
Publication Date: 2011-05-31
Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship addresses the relationship between law (institutions and regulations) and entrepreneurship (human activity with the aim of creating something new). Human activity is the essence of entrepreneurship. What unites law and creativity, work and play, is their shared origins in this activity. In this book, a varied group of scholars examine the building blocks of entrepreneurship by not only addressing the legal institutions that might regulate and promote enterprise, but by also exploring the very idea of creativity. The contributions to this volume provide a set of guideposts for understanding the connections among law, markets and human activities.

The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information
Online guide maintained by the Library of Congress. Includes sections on Getting Started, Raising Capital, Managing Your Business, Human Resources, Marketing, Doing Business with Government, International Opportunities, Statistics, and Company & Industry Research
Business Owner's Toolkit
"Total know-how for small business and entrepreneurs" by BizFilings. Features articles and resources on Starting Up, Get Running, Marketing, Office & HR, Finance, and Tax Center. Also offers podcasts and alerts for updates. "We were co-founded in 1996 by serial entrepreneur, Brian Wiegand and his business partner Rick Oster. We are proud to be the pioneers of the online incorporation space."
Minority Business Development Agency
Division of the US Dept. of Commerce. "MBDA is a leader in strengthening the economy and improving the lives of all Americans. We support job growth and economic expansion through a network of MBDA business centers, collaboration with federal, state and local government agencies, and strategic partnerships. The U.S. economy continues to benefit from a strong minority business sector as illustrated by our big numbers below."
Minority Business Development Agency - Locate a Local Business Center
MBDA has locations countrywide, including in Chicago.

Venture Capital & Financing

Intellectual Property and Financing Strategies for Technology Startups by Gerald B. Halt, Jr.; John C. Donch, Jr.; Amber R. Stiles; Robert Fesnak
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9783319492179
Publication Date: 2016-12-25
This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company's development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual property strategy that parallels each stage of development. The IP strategies offered in this book take into consideration the goals that most startups and companies have at each stage of development, as well as the limitations that exist at each stage (i.e., limited available resources earmarked for intellectual property asset development), and provides solutions that startups and companies can implement to maximize their return on intellectual property investments. This book also includes a number of descriptive examples, case studies and scenarios to illustrate the topics discussed, and is intended for use by startups and companies across all industries.

Finding a Market

Google Trends
"Trends data is an unbiased sample of our Google search data. It’s anonymized (no one is personally identified), categorized (determining the topic for a search query) and aggregated (grouped together). This allows us to measure interest in a particular topic across search, from around the globe, right down to city-level geography." Use this search to get popular opinion data on current events, emerging markets, and other social trends that impact businesses.
DATA USA
"Our team, comprised of economists, data scientists, designers, researchers and business executives, worked for over a year with input from policymakers, government officials and everyday citizens to develop Data USA, the most comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US Government data. Data USA tells millions of stories about America. Through advanced data analytics and visualization, it tells stories about: places in America—towns, cities and states; occupations, from teachers to welders to web developers; industries--where they are thriving, where they are declining and their interconnectedness to each other; and education and skills, from where is the best place to live if you’re a computer science major to the key skills needed to be an accountant...How can Data USA be useful? If you are an executive, it can help you better understand your customers and talent pool. It can inform decisions on where to open or relocate your business or plant. You may also want to build on the Data USA platform using the API and integrate additional data...If you are a policymaker, Data USA can be a powerful input to economic and workforce development programs...These are just a few examples of how an open data platform like Data USA can benefit everyday citizens, business and government." Great resource for investigating markets and finding data-based trends.
U.S. Census - American FactFinder
Contains data from various surveys conducted by U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Census QuickFacts
"QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more."