Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, and more. Below you can read about their experiences in the program.
I’m a huge advocate of learning all that you can but at the end of the day, the best form of learning is trying for yourself. The curriculum for the Founder Institute was solid because it encouraged Founders to put themselves out there.
After 3.5 months of Founder Institute, I was almost overwhelmed by how many new contacts I had in my startup/tech/innovation network. It really accelerates the early stages of your company with a network that broad.
Climber Hotel is my third startup and I still needed a working plan that would prevent me from making the same mistakes from the past. The Founder Institute is exactly that ... and it saved me months of unnecessary run-around.
Founder Institute gave me the practical knowledge, skills, business sense, and the network I needed to grow Appota to where it is today. I strongly encourage other startups to join the Founder Institute, or other accelerator programs.
Every week they teach you useful things like how to do a marketing plan and how to do a business plan. And, you have to practice pitching every single time. Four months later, I had pitched at least a hundred times, got tons of feedback, and actually tested things with my customers.
I got to see how a successful entrepreneur would run my project and in what order they would do things. The battle’s far from over, but I went from 0.1% knowledge about how to do things to 1.3 %. Considering this is a 1300 % increase, that’s an awesome return on investment.
The Founder Institute is awesome for founders who are new to the startup scene since the program takes you through the entire start-up process. Coming in with close to no knowledge of startup, the curriculum has allowed me to leave with a systematic and complete methodology of building a startup.
I pivoted my original idea, I worked very hard on my pitch and trained, trained, trained...
If you want to launch a company and don’t know how, the Founder Institute is the right place to be!"
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