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How to Use AI to Improve and Accelerate Customer Discovery

You have an idea. That’s the first, most exciting step. And because this is 2026, your first instinct is probably to turn to the easiest, fastest, and smartest partner you know: AI. Stuck on a name?...

Starting a Startup at NYU: A No Fluff Guide for Student Founders

If you are new to NYU, whether as an undergraduate or a graduate student, and even vaguely curious about startups, you are in the right place and at the right time. NYU has quietly become a serious la...

Recap: The 2026 J-Term Startup Sprint

Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! Join us in celebrating the J-Term Startup Sprint Class of 2026! From Jan. 5-16, we had the privilege ...

Beyond the Bench: Reinventing Forensic Toxicology with Portable Diagnostic Systems

Beyond the Bench is an ongoing series highlighting NYU faculty and researchers who are turning their research into real-world ventures. Read the full series here. The abuse of drugs both legal and ill...

Speed Is Not Strategy: Why AI Can’t Replace Customer Discovery

A founder asked me a question earlier today that stopped me in my tracks. He asked something like: “What is the point of customer discovery if I can just spin up an app in Cursor (or the like),...

Female Founders Lunch with Anastasia Dor (Tisch ’24) and Bakhtawer Baloch (SPS ’26)

At the Nov. 21 Female Founders Lunch, Anastasia Dor (Tisch ’24), co-founder of Mentivista, and Bakhtawer Baloch (SPS ’26), co-founder of Clairdoc, shared how they navigate building the right team,...

The Runway Equation: How Much to Raise and When to Spend It

Welcome to the next installment of the NYU Founders Guide to Venture Capital series. Here we cover how to calculate your runway and manage your cash post-raise. One of the most common questi...

Future-Focused Design: Creating for the Modern Consumer Startup School Recap

On November 12th, Aleksandra Medina (Abu Dhabi ’20) led an interactive workshop at the Leslie eLab as part of Startup School on how to design websites that resonate with the modern customer while re...

How NYU Founders Leverage the Startup Sprint as Rocket Fuel to Launch

The NYU Startup Sprint is a two-week intensive accelerator where founders pressure-test assumptions through real customer conversations, and make decisive progress on their business model. After seven...

From Research to Real-World Impact: Denis Yarats (Courant) and Perplexity

Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! For Denis Yarats (Courant), what began as a Ph.D. project at NYU became the foundation of one of toda...

85 New Ways to Find Customers for Discovery & Sales

By Rebecca Silver & Darren Yee PURPOSE At the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, we've helped thousands of founders go from idea to launch to scale by embedding customer development into the DNA of th...

In Their Own Words: Reflections from the 2025 Summer Launchpad Cohort

Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! The 2025 Summer Launchpad wrapped up with Demo Day, where this year's teams shared the ventures they ...