I actually meant Airbnb/Dropbox were A+ on Product/Market/YC utilization not the three things YC does for you. As for how to create interesting research maybe

I actually meant Airbnb/Dropbox were A+ on Product/Market/YC utilization not the three things YC does for you. As for how to create interesting research maybe you could setup a simple survey and let HN users grade YC startups in some way like this. I bet the results would be at least interesting.