Online Event
How to Build an AI Startup
Learn the right order to build an AI startup: problem, test, first version, first users.
Date
Oct 28, 2026
Time
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Address
Online Event
You have years of experience in your industry and a problem you keep noticing, but you have never built a company. What usually stops people at this point is the order of things: what to do first, what can wait, and what to skip.
This session walks through the path a first-time founder should follow: the problem you already know, a quick test that it is worth solving, a first version built with AI tools, and the first users. All of it while you are still employed.
Register now and leave with your next three steps.
What You'll Learn:
- How to pick the problem to start with from the ones you see in your own work
- A fast way to test whether that problem is worth solving before you build
- How to build a first version with AI tools and no technical co-founder
- How to find and talk to your first users
- How to fit all of this around a full-time job
Featured Speaker:
Kasia Sadowska - Director @ Founder Institute Austria: Kasia Sadowska is an AI Product Developer with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and leading tech startups across Europe. With a background in mechanical engineering, she has co-founded and scaled ventures in sectors like mobility, compliance, edtech, and sustainability, where AI was the core technology. Kasia is passionate about turning complex challenges into scalable digital solutions and empowering founders to build faster, smarter, and more impactfully using AI and no-code tools.
Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with years of industry experience who have never built a company;
- Employees with an idea they have not acted on yet;
- Aspiring founders without a technical background;
- Anyone who wants a clear sequence for starting an AI startup.
Additional Resources: For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in Central Eastern Europe, see our list of Startup Resources. Want to move through the first steps faster? Try our AI Skills for founders. Looking for more sessions like this one? Browse upcoming Startup Events.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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