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Germany Fall 2023

At the Founder Institute, you won't "learn" how to build a business. Rather, you will build your business alongside top startup experts using a proven, structured process that has helped some of the world's fastest growing companies raise over $1.85BN. 

Our core program includes a series of challenging growth sprints, in addition to Weekly Feedback Sessions where you will receive constant feedback on your progress from experienced Mentors and Investors. 

See the schedule for the Germany Fall 2023 program below.

The Final Application Deadline for the Germany Fall 2023 program is Sep 17, 2023, and you can apply to the program at FI.co/join.

Orientation

Meet the cohort & learn our methodology

Date: Sep 27, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Vision & Mission

Define a strong business vision

Date: Oct 04, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Impact Track: Introduction into Impact Entrepreneurship

Understanding of a regenerative economy

Date: Oct 09, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Customer Development Sprint

Analyze your customer feedback

Date: Oct 11, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

EIR Series: Model, Assumptions and Experiments Roadmap Workshop

Build good customer experiments

Date: Oct 13, 2023
Starts at: 11:00 am (America/New_York)

Revenue & Business Models

Validate a scalable revenue model

Date: Oct 18, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Pitch Mastery

Learn how to build a great pitch

Date: Nov 01, 2023
Starts at: 01:30 pm (America/New_York)

EIR Series: Model, Assumptions and Experiments Roadmap Follow up

Define value propositions and validation

Date: Nov 03, 2023
Starts at: 12:00 pm (America/New_York)

After building your first customer journey, customer profile and validating it with customer interviews, you'll now focus on the solution-side. We'll define various value propositions and business models, then identify the most critical assumptions and define experiments to validate them.

Mentor Idea Review

Test the core business on a mentor panel

Date: Nov 08, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Impact Track: Hardware startups and scaling challenges

Learn how to build and scale

Date: Nov 13, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Legal & Equity

Review your legal infrastructure

Date: Nov 15, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Go-to-Market & Scale

Improve your strategy to launch or scale

Date: Nov 22, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Impact Track: Impact & Public Funding, Regulated Markets and their stakeholders

Impact funding strategies & stakeholders

Date: Nov 27, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Product Development

Get feedback on your product roadmap

Date: Nov 29, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

EIR Series: Derive an MVP from your customer interviews

Start MVP definition

Date: Dec 01, 2023
Starts at: 11:00 am (America/New_York)

Define your MVP based on your customer experiments and interviews

Mentor Progress Review

Test your progress on a mentor panel

Date: Dec 06, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Co-Founders & Team

Improve your team and hiring

Date: Dec 13, 2023
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Growth

Establish a scalable engine for growth

Date: Jan 10, 2024
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

EIR Series: How To Use AI + Common Sense to Grow Your Company Beyond Sales

Date: Jan 12, 2024
Starts at: 11:00 am (America/New_York)

Discover today's best practices to grow your sales using AI, Automation and common sense. The last three years have seen an influx of AI tools to the marketplace, 204+ tools and services to be exact, all promising to transform your sales. Truth be told, there is a ton of overlap and most are automation tools and less so AI, however the power to scale and personalize B2B outreach remains undeniable.

Learn how you can set yourself up for success with AI to grow your sales by attending this session where you will see 

* What 3 qualifications you need ahead of time to use AI; without these AI cannot help you one bit.

* Which workflows work best for you based on the industry you are in

* How to sell like it is 2024, not 2010 aka social selling at scale

* What budgets are needed to see results

* Which players you need in-house to close more deals

* How to set up a growth culture that attracts sales, perfect personnel and opportunities while repelling time wasters and poor-fit players

* And more....

 

Most founders of companies with sales below 500K in sales find themselves in a situation where they have maxed out their referral network and their hustle to generate revenues. They now look for a reliable way to generate revenues that will prove their ICP, Offer and market expansion at scale so that they can reinvest in sales and/or raise more funds on better terms.

For founders of companies with sales between 500K and 2M the ICP is a lot clearer and they now face questions such as: investing more in sales, reducing cost per lead and per customer, scaling at will into new markets or deeper into existing markets.  Systematic lead gen to finetune existing models or develop new models helps them raise another round at better terms.

 

Lasty, for the more mature companies, think 1M+ in sales, you will learn about the Growth Flywheel that feeds your company and its people perpetually.

 

Wherever you find yourself on the founder journey, you'll walk away from this class with a clear path to growing your sales and your company.

 

 

About Jonathan Khorsandi:

Jonathan is hooked on innovation, startups, ridiculous ideas and people eager to change the world.

As a tech founder he's built, consulted with and coached companies the last 26+ years which put him at the edge of change and trends before they became “a thing”. 

His latest endeavor, Diwy - Do it With You, builds $1,000,000+ sales pipeline within 6 months for promising innovative B2B tech companies.
They use common sense, AI, Automation and rock solid targeting that goes beyond accessing databases that everyone else has access to.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathankhorsandi/

Investor Pitch Review

Pitch and get feedback from investors

Date: Jan 17, 2024
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Equity & Funding

Fix any impediments to fundraising

Date: Jan 24, 2024
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

EIR Series: Term sheets explained - importance, pitfalls, negotiation

Understand term sheets

Date: Jan 26, 2024
Starts at: 11:00 am (America/New_York)

Graduation

Celebrate & onboard to our post-programs

Date: Jan 31, 2024
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

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.

Post Program Resources

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.

Continued Support

FI Alumni
  • Dedicated Alumni Support Team in Silicon Valley
  • Access to the world's largest network of mentors and investors (35,000+)
  • Private Alumni mailing lists
  • $2M+ in partner discounts
  • Invites to FI sessions & network events
  • Potentail introductions to investors

Post-Programs

Founder Lab
  • A series of virtual advisory programs where you work with our Silicon Valley HQ team to reach next milestones
  • Funding Lab helps get your lead investor within 6 months
  • P/M Fit Lab (2023) helps you get to Product Market Fit
  • FI Venture Network helps you get intros to investors
  • 100% customized and FREE for Alumni