The Resource Guide is created by Grace Liu and Gabriella Velazquez
Updated on Janurary 8, 2022
This Guide introduces free resources and learning opportunities that cover diverse entrepreneurial topic areas.
Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Tutorials
The tutorial features different learning paths and topics based on three stages: develop ideas, get started and grow your business.
Kauffman FastTrac Course and online, in-person, or blended Learning Programs
Kauffman FastTrac® is a flexible course with a solid framework to support you as you start a business and begin your journey to success.
Techstars Entrepreneur's Toolkit
Techstars Entrepreneur’s Toolkit is an online educational resource to help you learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and accelerate your success.
Startup School Curriculum (Y Combinator)
This is a selection of Y Combinators’ most popular curriculum.
Wharton's Entrepreneurship Specialization (The University of Pennsylvania)
This five-course series is designed to take you from opportunity identification through launch, growth, financing and profitability.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate (The University of Maryland)
These courses are designed to map the lifecycle of a new venture, with learners crafting their ideas throughout the four-course program.
Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business Specialization (The University of Maryland)
This Specialization examines the entrepreneurial mindset and skill sets, indicators of innovation opportunities, critical steps to bring innovations to the marketplace, and innovation strategies to establish and maintain a competitive advantage.
Becoming an Entrepreneur (MIT)
Learn the business skills and startup mindset needed to embark on your entrepreneurial path from the premier program for aspiring entrepreneurs, MIT Launch.
Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
This course will explore the earlier stages of the entrepreneurial venture process across four modules. The modules will examine the nature of growth and error in entrepreneurial settings and how to manage resources in those settings.
How to Start Your Own Business Specialization (Michigan State University)
This specialization is a guide to creating your own business. We will cover a progression of topics necessary for successful business creation including: mindset, ideation, planning, action and strategy.
Entrepreneurship Strategy: From Ideation to Exit (HEC Paris)
This course covers in the chronological order each defining step of an entrepreneurial project.
Be the Startup Hero: Draper University Business Plan Competition (Draper University)
Learn to build and grow your business from the best entrepreneurs and operators in the world. Meet investors as they walk you through fundraising and diligence. Submit your pitch and business plan to win a slot at Draper University’s accelerator in Silicon Valley.
Best of Startup Secrets (Harvard i-lab): A selection of some of the best Startup Secret workshops hosted at the Harvard i-lab. Each video features rich content and real-life case studies related to startups.
Start-up School Youtube Channel - Lectures, Podcasts, and Webinars (Y Combinator)
Startup School: The First 100 Days (2017) (Y Combinator and Stanford Online)
Business Strategy and Innovation Webinars (Stragezier)
Kruze Consulting’s “Founders and Friends” podcast
Stanford Innovation Lab Podcast: Conversations on the leading edge of entrepreneurship, featuring Stanford faculty and other experts on strategy, creativity, technology, and smart growth.
TheLeapTV: One-on-one interviews (via YouTube) with successful entrepreneurs were conducted by Prof. David Belasco of the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Stanford E-Corner): A candid exploration of the entrepreneurial journey where informed leaders share personal stories of the secrets and setbacks behind real success.
Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Archive (Carnegie Mellon University)
Entrepreneurship & Innovation E-Book (Harvard Business School Online)
PM Archive and the PDF ebook ( best articles from Marc Andreessen’s 2007 blog)
Your Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Business News Daily)
Business Guide (Small Business Administration)
BizFilings Business Owner's Toolkit (Wolters Kluwer)
Entrepreneur's Reference Guide (Library of Congress)
How-to Guides for Start or Grow a Business (Startup Nation)
Click the link to find a Worldcat book record; enter a zipcode to check which library nearby has the book you can borrow. When the record is not available, a link to Amazon is provided.
Aulet, Bill. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup. 2015. Print.
Aulet, Bill, Marius Ursache, and Chris Snyder. Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook. 2017. Print.
Blank, Steve, and Bob Dorf. The Startup Owner's Manual. The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Boston: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020. Print.
Harvard Business Review. The Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook: Everything You Need to Launch and Grow Your New Business. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2018. Print.
Pieri, Jules. How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses. 2019. Print.
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