Online Event
How to Turn Your Industry Expertise Into an AI Startup
Your experience holds a startup idea. Watch us turn a real CV into one, built live.
Date
Oct 22, 2026
Time
05:00 am - 06:00 am
Address
Online Event
After years in one industry, you know problems outsiders never see. Most people with that experience never turn it into a company because they don’t know where to start. In this live session, Founder Institute Austria co-directors Stephan and Kasia go from a real CV to a working first version in one hour. Stephan uploads his CV to Frank, FI’s AI tool for founders, which suggests 10 startup ideas. You help pick one, Playbook drafts the first sprints, and Kasia builds it live in Lovable. No pre-built demo, just every prompt, decision and dead end. Register now and bring your own CV.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to turn your CV into startup ideas that fit your real experience
- Why domain experts have an edge over technical founders in the first months
- How to choose one idea out of ten, and what to ignore
- How Founder Institute tools plan your first sprints for you
- How to decide between an MVP and a landing page for your first test
- How to build a first version in Lovable without writing code
Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with 5 or more years in one industry
- Domain experts who have spotted a problem but never started a company
- Employees thinking about building something of their own
- People without a technical background or a co-founder
- Anyone curious how AI tools go from idea to product in one hour
Bring: your own CV. Open it in a second tab and run the same steps on your own career while we do ours.
Additional Resources: For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in Bulgaria, see our list of Startup Resources. Can you say your problem in one line? Write it with our One-Sentence Pitch tool. Ready to test it? Try our AI Skills for founders for idea validation and 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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