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Egypt Virtual 2021

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 Egypt Virtual 2021 program below.

The Final Application Deadline for the Egypt Virtual 2021 program is Sep 19, 2021, and you can apply to the program at FI.co/join.

Orientation

Meet the cohort & learn our methodology

Date: Sep 29, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Vision

Define a strong business vision

Date: Sep 30, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Customer Development

Analyze your customer feedback

Date: Oct 06, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Revenue

Validate a scalable revenue model

Date: Oct 13, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Branding & Design

Get feedback on branding & design

Date: Oct 27, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Mentor Idea Review

Test the core business on a mentor panel

Date: Nov 03, 2021
Starts at: 12:30 pm (America/New_York)

Legal & IP

Review your legal infrastructure

Date: Nov 10, 2021
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

Go-to-Market & Scale

Improve your strategy to launch or scale

Date: Nov 17, 2021
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

Product Development

Get feedback on your product roadmap

Date: Dec 01, 2021
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

Mentor Progress Review

Test your progress on a mentor panel

Date: Dec 08, 2021
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

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.

 

Sprints

Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours: 

  1. Polished Investor Pitch Deck - Create an expanded, 12-slide pitch deck incorporating any feedback from the Mentor Progress Review, using our templates. 
  2. Growth - Make progress on your growth goals, and examine or adjust how your strategy and the system to keep yourself accountable is performing.
  3. Product - Make progress on your next product release, and outline and address any of the setbacks that you have faced with your project team.
  4. Hiring Needs - Score the progress of each member of your project team on a 1 to 10 scale, including yourself, and set up plans to improve those that are struggling. 
  5. Finalize Advisory Board - Set up your advisory board with startup, industry, technology or marketing advisors, and set up a one hour conference call with all of the them, which will be your first quarterly advisory board meeting.
  6. Financial Model Update - Review and update your financial model with the work done to date. Adjust the revenue projections based on your growth thus far, and evaluate the need and requirements for external funding. 

Hiring & Onboarding

Improve your team and hiring

Date: Dec 15, 2021
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

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. 

 

Sprints

Below are just a few of the 10-15 deliverables you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours: 

  1. Candidates - Search for candidates to hire (including Co-Founders) by identifying everyone that you know who is appropriate, or leveraging the FI network, to fill the top two or three roles you are not planning to outsource.
  2. Hiring Process - Develop a hiring and onboarding process using our guidelines to add team members into your organization, and begin executing on the process.
  3. Test Projects - Develop at least one test project for each of your top two or three roles, which should create opportunities for credible candidates to demonstrate their skills.
  4. Advisor Review - Arrange a meeting or phone call with at least one of your advisors to discuss your hiring work. Present everything that you have done, and incorporate their feedback into your planning.
  5. Time Allocation - Meticulously outline your “founder’s schedule” by allocating weekly blocks of time to address your core business activities, providing you with uninterrupted time to work on each activity.
  6. (Optional) Fundraising - If you don’t have sufficient capital to run the company for the next few months, then follow our guides to start a preparing documentation and research for a funding round.  

Growth

Establish a scalable engine for growth

Date: Jan 12, 2022
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

Equity & Funding

Fix any impediments to fundraising

Date: Jan 19, 2022
Starts at: 11:30 am (America/New_York)

Graduation

Celebrate & onboard to our post-programs

Date: Feb 02, 2022
Starts at: 11:30 am (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