The World's Largest Entrepreneur
Training & Startup Launch Program
The best way to learn is by doing. Through a structured, 4-month curriculum of weekly training courses and business-building assignments, you graduate the Founder Institute as the Founder of an enduring company. Plus, sessions are held at night, so you can keep your day job.
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You don't have to do it alone. Receive weekly instruction, feedback, and evaluation from a large network of entrepreneur mentors who have built companies themselves, and are vested in your success. In most semesters, the ratio of mentors to founders is greater than 1:1, and the global mentor network exceeds 3,000 people.
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| Adeo Ressi | Aaron Patzer | Phil Libin |
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| Founder Institute | mint.com | Evernote |
| Robin Chase | Peter Vesterbacka | Jeffrey Paine |
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| Zipcar | Rovio | Golden Gate Ventures |
Aspiring entrepreneurs have used our program to form and improve their business ideas, develop their marketing strategy, create an advisory board, recruit co-founders, improve their pitch, launch a product, prepare to raise capital, bootstrap to profitability, generate revenue, and more.
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Based in Silicon Valley but with chapters across six continents and 61+ cities, our mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and help promising entrepreneurs launch companies that create one million new startup jobs.
