Entrepreneurship & Startup Accelerator Research Guide

1. Idea Generation & Validation

• How to Get Startup Ideas – Jared Friedman (YC) on practical frameworks for ideation.

2. Understanding Your Market & Users

• How to Get Your Ideas to Spread (TED) – Seth Godin on finding early adopters.
• Customer Focus Builds Global Growth – Diego Piacentini (Stanford ETL) on customer-centric scaling.

3. Building Your MVP & Product

• The Lean Startup (Talks at Google) – Eric Ries on MVPs, build–measure–learn loop.
• How to Build an MVP – Michael Seibel (YC) on tactical advice for first product release.

4. Co-founder & Team Building

• The Founder’s Dilemmas (Stanford ETL) – Noam Wasserman on equity splits, team dynamics.
• Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google

5. Pitch Preparation & Decks

• 10 Things to Know Before You Pitch a VC (TED) – David S. Rose on investor perspective.
• The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs (Berkeley Haas) – Guy Kawasaki on common pitfalls.

6. Launch Strategy & Customer Acquisition

• How to Launch Your Company in the Press – Kat Mañalac (YC) on tactical press/PR.
• Ideas That Spread – Seth Godin on marketing & storytelling.

7. Business Model & Financial Planning

• Startup Secrets: Roadmap to Success (Michael Skok) – Harvard i-Lab business model design.
• Measure What Matters – Using OKRs to align teams with John Doerr.

8. Funding & Investment

• Startup Fundraising – Overview of fundraising mechanics with Brad Flora (YC).
• Vinod Khosla on how to effectively pitch to VCs.

9. Legal, IP & Regulatory

• Intellectual Property Fundamentals with the USPTO
• The Innovator’s Guide to Ethics, Tom Byers and Jack Fuchs – Stanford eCorner.

10. Scaling & Operations

• High Output Management Principles – Intel leadership talk by Andy Grove.
• Blitzscaling Lecture – Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh on scaling culture and operations. Requires NYIT email login.

11. Resources & Support Networks

• How to Start a Startup – A Y Combinator course.
• Startup School – By Y Combinator.
• How to Build a Startup – Steve Blank teaches founders how to validate ideas, engage customers, and iterate product development.