How To Start A Business
MCE is one of the first stops for anyone at Memorial thinking about starting a business. We compiled this list of resources, many of which are coming from StartupRocket; a platform you should definitely check out! We’ve organized everything conveniently by stage of startup, because you don’t really need to think about growth planning before you even validate whether or not the idea is worth pursuing.
General Resources and Frameworks
Books
Podcasts
Product Hunt’s list of 20 Great Startup Podcats
Frameworks
Videos
Techstars Entrepreneur's Toolkit
Ideate
The Idea
Brainstorming for New Startup Ideas: A Framework to Spur Creative Thinking
Get inspiration from other entrepreneurs at Indie Hackers
Lecture
Overview Statement
How to boil down vision and mission into an overview statement for your new business
The Market
How to evaluate a market for your potential startup
How can a startup company best evaluate market size and find the market data?
Customer Personas
How to identify “ideal” early customers
How to Create Detailed Buyer Personas for Your Business
Validate
Your Team
How to compose a co-founder team
Surveys & Interviews
How to maximize learning from pre-launch customer surveys and interviews
Validating your Decisions Using Surveys
How to Interview your Customers
Advisors
How (and when) to select advisors for your new venture
Startup Advisors – When, Who and How
How to Score an Advisor When Your Startup Has No Money
Experiments
How to conduct free and low-cost experiments to validate your new business idea
10 Experiments to Test Your Startup Hypothesis
Prospecting Tools
RingCentral (helps with International calling)
Getting a Company Email Address from Google
Setting Up a Website with Squarespace
Receive Online Payments with Stripe
Look for Further Assistance with Further Tasks with Fiverr
Get essays on how to "move the masses" with GrowthSupply