Schedule
Deferral
カリキュラム
ファウンダー·インスティテュートの起業セッションは週一回行われます。立ち上げビジネスにあらゆる観点から考察を加え、中心となるアイデアを収益モデルにつなげる手助けをします。セッションはそれぞれ、3名のCEOメンターが受け持ち、与えられた課題に対し独自の、それぞれの異なる考え方を提供します。クラス仲間でワーキンググループをつくり、次のセッションまでに自分たちの会社の主要観点を完成させるという課題が与えられます。
ファウンダー·インスティテュートの起業セッションは週一回行われます。立ち上げビジネスにあらゆる観点から考察を加え、中心となるアイデアを収益モデルにつなげる手助けをします。セッションはそれぞれ、3名のCEOメンターが受け持ち、与えられた課題に対し独自の、それぞれの異なる考え方を提供します。クラス仲間でワーキンググループをつくり、次のセッションまでに自分たちの会社の主要観点を完成させるという課題が与えられます。
Meet the cohort & learn our methodology
This is where it all begins. During Orientation, we will review the Founder Institute program structure, methodology, tools, and requirements. You will meet the cohort and establish how your startup will use the program to push your business forward.
During Orientation, your cohort will be split up into the “Launch Track” or “Growth Track”, depending on the stage your business. The "Launch Track" focuses earlier Founders and teams on validation and go-to-markets, while the "Growth Track" focuses teams with a live product and customers on traction and funding.
The below deliverables are in addition to any custom "Epic Sprints" you may receive based on your specific challenges, and below is a small sample of the deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Define a strong business vision
In each weekly Feedback Session, Founders will pitch and outline their progress to the Mentors for feedback, and get tips and insights on the week's topic. This week you'll get tips on how to develop a strong vision for your business.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Analyze your customer feedback
In this Feedback Session, Founders will present any customer development progress to the Mentors to examine if they are pursuing a scalable business with a clear and actionable customer problem. The Mentors will also provide tips on how to validate your key assumptions, interview potential customers effectively, and best interpret the feedback you receive.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Validate a scalable revenue model
In this Feedback Session, Founders will share their pitch and revenue model with Mentors for feedback and continued refinement. You will also get tips on how to sustain your startup before receiving financing or revenue, identifying the most lucrative revenue source for your business, testing different revenue sources with your target customers, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Learn how to build a great pitch
During this session, Mentors will provide advice on how to effectively pitch a startup. The goal of this session is for Founders to learn the latest best practices in building a great pitch, and get feedback on the pitches they already have.
Test the core business on a mentor panel
This is the first big checkpoint in the program to determine your progress. During the Mentor Idea Review, you will present a longer presentation to a panel of FI Mentors for extensive review. You will receive a rating, as well as feedback on the long-term viability of your offering, revenue model, growth strategy, and more.
After the Mentor Idea Review, Founders receive a larger number of custom "Epic Sprints" with deliverables based on their specific challenges. Below are examples of some of the standard deliverables.
Review your legal infrastructure
In this Feedback Session, startup lawyers and CEOs will explain various legal agreements, startup legal components (such as equity), cap tables, how to protect intellectual property, the best practices for managing a law firm, and more. As usual, Mentors will also provide Founders with ratings and feedback on their startup pitch and progress.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Improve your strategy to launch or scale
In this Feedback Session, Mentors will provide Founders with feedback on their current go-to-market plans and progress, and cover topics like marketing messaging, unit ecomomics, customer acquisition, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Get feedback on your product roadmap
In this Feedback Sesison, Mentors will provide Founders with feedback on their current product, and/or product roadmap. Expert in product development will also discuss best practices in product management, roadmapping, managing product teams, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Test your progress on a mentor panel
Similar to the Mentor Idea Review, the Mentor Progress Review is the second major test in the program. In this session, Founders will focus on give a long presentation their progress and traction to a panel of Mentors for a detailed review. Mentors will evaluate Founders based on their progress in the program, the company’s scalability, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Improve your team and hiring
In this Feedback Session, Founders will receive feedback from Mentors on their team plans and product progress. In addition, Mentors will discuss how to identify the roles needed to build a world-class company, how to develop a strategy to recruit, onboard and retain the best people, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Establish a scalable engine for growth
In this session, Mentors will provide Founders with feedback on their current growth, metrics, and strategy. Mentors will discuss various growth tactics, setting growth goals and milestones, communicating your startup’s growth progress and setbacks with stakeholders and advisors, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 assignments you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Pitch and get feedback from investors
During this session, Founders will present their investment pitch to angel investors and micro-VCs in a safe environment. The goal of this session is for Founders to receive constructive feedback and build relationships that will assist in their future fundraising efforts.
Fix any impediments to fundraising
In this session, Mentors will analyze Founder pitches from the perspective of an investor, identifying any remaining issues or areas for improvement. Mentors will also cover numerous topics related to fundraising, including different fundraising options, how to raise funding, and more.
Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Celebrate & onboard to our post-programs
Completing the Founder Institute is an honor. The program is challenging, and the expectations are demanding.
In this final session, you will celebrate with your peers, friends and family, as well as select Mentors. Some Founders will also pitch to a live audience, and you will officially onboard to all of the post-program resources and assistance the Founder Institute provides.
The 4 month Core-Program is just the beginning. We have developed extensive support programs and resources for our Alumni that far exceed any other comparable startup program.