Online Event
How to Find Your First 10 Paying Customers With AI
Find your first 10 paying customers with AI, without a sales team or a marketing budget.
Date
Oct 22, 2026
Time
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Address
Online Event
You have a first version of your product. Now you need people who will pay for it, and there is no sales team, no budget and no brand behind you yet.
In this session, Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder and CIO of the Founder Institute, shows how solo founders use AI to find the right prospects, write outreach that gets replies and run the follow-up a sales team used to handle. You will leave with a plan for reaching your first 10 paying customers.
Register now and bring the product you want to sell.
What You'll Learn:
- Where to find the first people likely to pay for what you built;
- How to use AI to research prospects and write outreach that gets replies;
- How to run follow-ups and track conversations without a sales team;
- What to say in a first sales call when you are the only person in the company;
- How to turn your first paying customers into referrals.
Featured Speaker:
- Jonathan Greechan - Co-Founder & CIO @ Founder Institute: Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, and former CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest agentic company builder. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and over 100 countries, which have produced over 9,000 portfolio companies with nearly $2BN with an estimated value of $20BN. He also serves as an Advisor to Oxford Entrepreneurs (Oxford University), Horasis, and the USC Incubator (University of Southern California).
Who Should Attend:
- Solo founders with a product or prototype and no customers yet;
- Early founders without a sales or marketing background;
- Aspiring founders who want to know what happens after the MVP;
- Professionals planning to sell an AI product on their own.
Additional Resources: For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in New York, see our list of Startup Resources. Need a sharper way to describe what you sell? Write it with our One-Sentence Pitch tool. Want help with outreach and positioning? Try our AI Skills for founders for go-to-market plans.
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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