Как получить наибольшую пользу из семинаров Founder Institute? Чего ожидать от запуска своего стартапа? Какие качества фаундера являются залогом того, что стартап будет успешен?
Date
13 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Every Founder follows the Agentic Track — an AI-personalized curriculum that adapts each sprint to be more advanced or more basic based on your stage, with powerful free AI agents to help complete the work.
The below deliverables are in addition to any custom "Epic Sprints" you may receive based on your specific challenges, and are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Office Hours - Book your first Office Hours with Local Leaders and Mentors to get guidance on the next steps for your business.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one sentence verbal pitch for the weekly "Founder Hotseat", where you present to Mentors during the Feedback Sessions.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
К чему вы действительно неравнодушны? Есть ли у вас видение того, чем хотелось бы заниматься? Как превратить свое любимое дело и видение в бизнес-идею? В чем заключается брейнсторминг бизнес-идей? Какие есть инструменты для оценки бизнес-идеи, как отличить хорошую от плохой? Можно ли заниматься разработкой нескольких идей одновременно или стоит состредоточиться на одной?
Date
20 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Market Research - Utilize our market research template to collect accurate and available market information on the customer problems you are analyzing.
Personas - Build an initial Buyer Persona to better understand your target customer's needs, challenges, and buying process.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Кто ваш клиент? Достаточно ли объемен ваш целевой рынок? Он растет или сокращается? Каковы основные характеристики вашего рынка, и почему вам это важно? Как найти информацию и количественные показатели по вашему рынку? Кто ваши конкуренты? Какие бывают недорогие методы исследования рынка? Как определить, можете ли вы завоевать рынок, или лучше отказаться от этой идеи?
Date
27 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Customer Interviews - Develop a longer series of customer interview questions based on your initial interviews and key assumptions, with at least ten open-ended customer interview questions for each customer problem.
Revenue Modeling - For each remaining customer problem, develop or improve a professional landing page targeted to your initial customer archetype, and quickly build up a mailing list to receive customer feedback.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Что такое бренд? Бренд вашей компании - это вы? Ваше вИдение? Как придумать хорошее название для компании? Чем отличаются хорошие названия от неудачных? Что сделать, чтобы защитить свой бренд?
Date
03 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Получится ли у вас презентовать свою идею за три минуты и пережить вопросы экспертов? Насколько эффектна и интересна ваша бизнес-идея? Можете ли вы как основатель стартапа хорошо и убедительно ее презентовать? Получилось ли у вас исследовать рынок для этого бизнеса? Что заставляет вас думать, что ваша идея может стать серьезным бизнесом?
Date
17 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
After the Mentor Idea Review, Founders receive a larger number of custom "Epic Sprints" with deliverables based on their specific challenges. Below are high-level previews of standard deliverables.
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Advisor Candidates - You will create (or fill out) an Advisory Board in the next 5 weeks, so develop a target list of new advisor candidates based off your identified needs and gaps in knowledge/ connections.
Advisor Outreach - Leverage the FI network to get introductions to your targets where necessary, and follow our templated process to make progress on your advisory board.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Что нужно знать предпринимателю о правовом оформлении стартапа? Когда нужно обращаться к юристу, а с какими вопросами можно справляться самостоятельно? На что обращать внимание при заключении контрактов? Чего избегать? Каковы самые распространенные ошибки? Что нужно предпринять, чтобы защитить интеллектуальную собственность, включая конфиденциальную информацию, копирайты, торговые марки и патенты? С какими проблемами, связанными с защитой IP, сталкиваются предприниматели, и как справляться с такими ситуациями?
Date
24 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Law Firm Engagement - If you don't already have a law firm, meet with your law firm candidates and sign an "engagement letter" with your chosen firm.
Corporate Formation Agreements - If you don't already have a suitable corporation, secure all of your corporate formation agreements which govern how the business conducts itself.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
What talent do you need in the beginning to be successful? How do you recruit the first team members with extremely limited resources? How do you conduct a thorough interviewing process? How do you compensate? How do you set expectations, measure results and remove or fire under-performing resources? Do you need a cofounder? Do you need to have engineering in-house?
Date
01 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Hiring Process - Develop a hiring and onboarding process using our guidelines to add team members into your organization, and begin executing on the process.
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.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
How do you plan to make money? How do you build a financial model? What are the types of expenses, such as fixed expenses and costs of goods sold, and how do they scale? How do you know if your model is right? What do angel investors and venture capitalists expect from your financial model? How do you identify the key metrics for your success?
Date
08 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Revenue Models - Narrow down that problem to three potential revenue models, and thoroughly analyze the positives and negatives of each model.
Professional Pitch Deck - Use our templates to develop a professional three minute long pitch deck, based on the feedback, concepts and flow that have resonated from your Hotseat pitches.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
How do you get from an idea to an offering? What are strategies to identify and prioritize features? How do you take a product definition and turn it into a development plan? What should comprise a minimum viable product? What are effective strategies to build your first offering? What are common mistakes that you should avoid when planning and building an offering?
Date
15 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Intellectual Property - If you have not already, secure and protect the intellectual property for all of the work done to date. Examine the need for patents, if applicable, following our guidelines.
Team Analysis - Define and get extensive feedback on the requisite technical skills, soft skills, expertise, and networks will be needed in your core team.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Can you pitch your business in three minutes and survive the scrutiny of seasoned CEOs? How much progress has been made on the product? How viable is the business and the financial model? Can you present the business in a meaningful and articulate way? Does the business scale? Can the business survive?
Date
22 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Polished Investor Pitch Deck - Create an expanded, 12-slide pitch deck incorporating any feedback from the Investor Progress Review, using our templates.
Growth - Make progress on your growth goals, and examine or adjust how your strategy and the system to keep yourself accountable is performing.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
What should you outsource, and what do you need to do in-house? How to segment the vendors that you need? What vendors do you need right when you start, and what vendors will you need as you grow? How do you recruit and select the important vendors? What are tips and tricks to manage vendors in order to ensure a consistent level of quality? How do you fire and replace under-performing vendors? What are common mistakes made when dealing with vendors?
Date
29 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
How do you portray yourself and your business to the world? How do you tell the story of your company? How do you define your ultimate success? How do you attract the first customers and partners to your vision? How do you involve your customers and partners in your success? What are techniques to refine your messaging?
Date
05 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Alternatives - Identify two alternative models (markets or "pivots") for your go-to-market solution to discover the most lucrative market opportunity. Interview at least 2 customers for each alternative.
Advisor Follow-Up - In the next Step you will finalize advisors, so begin finalization meetings with your top candidates, and set up test Advisor Test Projects where necessary following our templates.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
How do you get the world to take notice of your company? What are tips and tricks to present your business? What tools do you need to succeed with outreach? How do you identify newsworthy milestones? How do you craft a successful media release? What are effective tactics to get social media, the blogosphere and traditional media to take notice? What are common media mistakes for new companies?
Date
12 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sales - Pursue aggressive goals to close new revenue or users, which may be signups, payments, a signed contract, a pre-payment or a signed letter of intent.
Pivot - Consider a pivot if you are not meeting your growth goals, sales, product or hiring progress targets. If you decide to Pivot, schedule a call with one of your Local Leaders to discuss your proposed pivot in the business and do the same with your advisors.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
When is it realistic to raise capital for a brand new company? How should you calculate the amount of money to raise? How should you define the use use of proceeds? What materials are required to fundraise? How do you identify and qualify target angel and seed stage investors? How do you find a lead investor? What do investors expect from the company? What are typical investment structures and deal terms for seed-stage financing? How do you negotiate terms?
Date
19 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Advisor Strategy - Set up a call with each of your advisors and briefly review your "Victory Condition", the funding strategy, hiring plan, sales plan and product plan.
Use of Proceeds - Examine the capital needs of the business, and extend your financial model to project revenues and expenses for a total of 24 months from now.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
How do you ensure success after Graduation? Who will lead the alumni community, and what are the plans following graduation? The Graduation is the beginning of an exciting period for Founders, where an idea becomes reality. Congratulations!
Date
02 сентября 2013
Time
07:30утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Weekly Focus
1. Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
2. Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
3. Исследование рынка для стартапа
4. Mentor Idea Review
5. Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
6. Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
7. Revenues, Costs and Profits
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Marketing and Sales
11. Presentation and Publicity
12. Fundraising
13. Graduation
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
The FI Core Program is just the beginning of a life long journey.
Founder Institute Alumni get access to a series of advanced accelerator programs, ongoing support from our Silicon Valley Team, valuable partner and service discounts, and more to continue building the business for years to come.
Continued Support
Dedicated Alumni Support Team in Silicon Valley
Access to the world's largest network of mentors and investors (40,000+)
Private Alumni mailing lists
$2.5M+ in partner discounts
Invites to FI sessions & network events
Potential introductions to investors
Structured Post-Programs
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
The FI Venture Network matches Alumni ready for funding with a massive pool of investors that specialize in writing 'first or second checks' of funding
Вводная лекция: Основы предпринимательства, знакомство с программой
Как получить наибольшую пользу из семинаров Founder Institute? Чего ожидать от запуска своего стартапа? Какие качества фаундера являются залогом того, что стартап будет успешен?
Date
13 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Every Founder follows the Agentic Track — an AI-personalized curriculum that adapts each sprint to be more advanced or more basic based on your stage, with powerful free AI agents to help complete the work.
The below deliverables are in addition to any custom "Epic Sprints" you may receive based on your specific challenges, and are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Office Hours - Book your first Office Hours with Local Leaders and Mentors to get guidance on the next steps for your business.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one sentence verbal pitch for the weekly "Founder Hotseat", where you present to Mentors during the Feedback Sessions.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
20 мая07:00 вечераweek 2
Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности
К чему вы действительно неравнодушны? Есть ли у вас видение того, чем хотелось бы заниматься? Как превратить свое любимое дело и видение в бизнес-идею? В чем заключается брейнсторминг бизнес-идей? Какие есть инструменты для оценки бизнес-идеи, как отличить хорошую от плохой? Можно ли заниматься разработкой нескольких идей одновременно или стоит состредоточиться на одной?
Date
20 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Market Research - Utilize our market research template to collect accurate and available market information on the customer problems you are analyzing.
Personas - Build an initial Buyer Persona to better understand your target customer's needs, challenges, and buying process.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
27 мая
Refund Deadline
27 мая07:00 вечераweek 3
Исследование рынка для стартапа
Кто ваш клиент? Достаточно ли объемен ваш целевой рынок? Он растет или сокращается? Каковы основные характеристики вашего рынка, и почему вам это важно? Как найти информацию и количественные показатели по вашему рынку? Кто ваши конкуренты? Какие бывают недорогие методы исследования рынка? Как определить, можете ли вы завоевать рынок, или лучше отказаться от этой идеи?
Date
27 мая 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Customer Interviews - Develop a longer series of customer interview questions based on your initial interviews and key assumptions, with at least ten open-ended customer interview questions for each customer problem.
Revenue Modeling - For each remaining customer problem, develop or improve a professional landing page targeted to your initial customer archetype, and quickly build up a mailing list to receive customer feedback.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
03 июня07:00 вечераweek 4
Нейминг и разработка бренда
Что такое бренд? Бренд вашей компании - это вы? Ваше вИдение? Как придумать хорошее название для компании? Чем отличаются хорошие названия от неудачных? Что сделать, чтобы защитить свой бренд?
Date
03 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
17 июня07:00 вечераweek 6
Mentor Idea Review
Получится ли у вас презентовать свою идею за три минуты и пережить вопросы экспертов? Насколько эффектна и интересна ваша бизнес-идея? Можете ли вы как основатель стартапа хорошо и убедительно ее презентовать? Получилось ли у вас исследовать рынок для этого бизнеса? Что заставляет вас думать, что ваша идея может стать серьезным бизнесом?
Date
17 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
After the Mentor Idea Review, Founders receive a larger number of custom "Epic Sprints" with deliverables based on their specific challenges. Below are high-level previews of standard deliverables.
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Advisor Candidates - You will create (or fill out) an Advisory Board in the next 5 weeks, so develop a target list of new advisor candidates based off your identified needs and gaps in knowledge/ connections.
Advisor Outreach - Leverage the FI network to get introductions to your targets where necessary, and follow our templated process to make progress on your advisory board.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
24 июня07:00 вечераweek 7
Юридические аспекты ведения бизнеса и защита интеллектуальной собственности
Что нужно знать предпринимателю о правовом оформлении стартапа? Когда нужно обращаться к юристу, а с какими вопросами можно справляться самостоятельно? На что обращать внимание при заключении контрактов? Чего избегать? Каковы самые распространенные ошибки? Что нужно предпринять, чтобы защитить интеллектуальную собственность, включая конфиденциальную информацию, копирайты, торговые марки и патенты? С какими проблемами, связанными с защитой IP, сталкиваются предприниматели, и как справляться с такими ситуациями?
Date
24 июня 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Law Firm Engagement - If you don't already have a law firm, meet with your law firm candidates and sign an "engagement letter" with your chosen firm.
Corporate Formation Agreements - If you don't already have a suitable corporation, secure all of your corporate formation agreements which govern how the business conducts itself.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
01 июля07:00 вечераweek 8
Cofounders, Hiring and Firing
What talent do you need in the beginning to be successful? How do you recruit the first team members with extremely limited resources? How do you conduct a thorough interviewing process? How do you compensate? How do you set expectations, measure results and remove or fire under-performing resources? Do you need a cofounder? Do you need to have engineering in-house?
Date
01 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Hiring Process - Develop a hiring and onboarding process using our guidelines to add team members into your organization, and begin executing on the process.
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.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
08 июля07:00 вечераweek 9
Revenues, Costs and Profits
How do you plan to make money? How do you build a financial model? What are the types of expenses, such as fixed expenses and costs of goods sold, and how do they scale? How do you know if your model is right? What do angel investors and venture capitalists expect from your financial model? How do you identify the key metrics for your success?
Date
08 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Revenue Models - Narrow down that problem to three potential revenue models, and thoroughly analyze the positives and negatives of each model.
Professional Pitch Deck - Use our templates to develop a professional three minute long pitch deck, based on the feedback, concepts and flow that have resonated from your Hotseat pitches.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
15 июля07:00 вечераweek 10
Product Development
How do you get from an idea to an offering? What are strategies to identify and prioritize features? How do you take a product definition and turn it into a development plan? What should comprise a minimum viable product? What are effective strategies to build your first offering? What are common mistakes that you should avoid when planning and building an offering?
Date
15 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Intellectual Property - If you have not already, secure and protect the intellectual property for all of the work done to date. Examine the need for patents, if applicable, following our guidelines.
Team Analysis - Define and get extensive feedback on the requisite technical skills, soft skills, expertise, and networks will be needed in your core team.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
22 июля07:00 вечераweek 11
Mentor Progress Review
Can you pitch your business in three minutes and survive the scrutiny of seasoned CEOs? How much progress has been made on the product? How viable is the business and the financial model? Can you present the business in a meaningful and articulate way? Does the business scale? Can the business survive?
Date
22 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Polished Investor Pitch Deck - Create an expanded, 12-slide pitch deck incorporating any feedback from the Investor Progress Review, using our templates.
Growth - Make progress on your growth goals, and examine or adjust how your strategy and the system to keep yourself accountable is performing.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
29 июля07:00 вечераweek 12
Outsourcing, Partners and Suppliers
What should you outsource, and what do you need to do in-house? How to segment the vendors that you need? What vendors do you need right when you start, and what vendors will you need as you grow? How do you recruit and select the important vendors? What are tips and tricks to manage vendors in order to ensure a consistent level of quality? How do you fire and replace under-performing vendors? What are common mistakes made when dealing with vendors?
Date
29 июля 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
05 авг.07:00 вечераweek 13
Marketing and Sales
How do you portray yourself and your business to the world? How do you tell the story of your company? How do you define your ultimate success? How do you attract the first customers and partners to your vision? How do you involve your customers and partners in your success? What are techniques to refine your messaging?
Date
05 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Alternatives - Identify two alternative models (markets or "pivots") for your go-to-market solution to discover the most lucrative market opportunity. Interview at least 2 customers for each alternative.
Advisor Follow-Up - In the next Step you will finalize advisors, so begin finalization meetings with your top candidates, and set up test Advisor Test Projects where necessary following our templates.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Revenue Modeling
Legal & IP
Branding & Design
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
12 авг.07:00 вечераweek 14
Presentation and Publicity
How do you get the world to take notice of your company? What are tips and tricks to present your business? What tools do you need to succeed with outreach? How do you identify newsworthy milestones? How do you craft a successful media release? What are effective tactics to get social media, the blogosphere and traditional media to take notice? What are common media mistakes for new companies?
Date
12 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sales - Pursue aggressive goals to close new revenue or users, which may be signups, payments, a signed contract, a pre-payment or a signed letter of intent.
Pivot - Consider a pivot if you are not meeting your growth goals, sales, product or hiring progress targets. If you decide to Pivot, schedule a call with one of your Local Leaders to discuss your proposed pivot in the business and do the same with your advisors.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
19 авг.07:00 вечераweek 15
Fundraising
When is it realistic to raise capital for a brand new company? How should you calculate the amount of money to raise? How should you define the use use of proceeds? What materials are required to fundraise? How do you identify and qualify target angel and seed stage investors? How do you find a lead investor? What do investors expect from the company? What are typical investment structures and deal terms for seed-stage financing? How do you negotiate terms?
Date
19 августа 2013
Time
08:00утра PDT
Sprints
Below are just high-level previews of the 10-15 deliverables you'll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Deliverables
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Advisor Strategy - Set up a call with each of your advisors and briefly review your "Victory Condition", the funding strategy, hiring plan, sales plan and product plan.
Use of Proceeds - Examine the capital needs of the business, and extend your financial model to project revenues and expenses for a total of 24 months from now.
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Financial Planning
Team & Advisors
Fundraising Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
02 сент.06:30 вечераweek 17
Graduation
How do you ensure success after Graduation? Who will lead the alumni community, and what are the plans following graduation? The Graduation is the beginning of an exciting period for Founders, where an idea becomes reality. Congratulations!
Date
02 сентября 2013
Time
07:30утра PDT
The Agentic Track
Personalized by AI to your startup's needs — more advanced or more basic — with powerful free AI agents to help you complete the company building work.
Sprints
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Team & Advisors
Fundraising & Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
week 18+
Post Programs
The FI Core Program is just the beginning of a life long journey.
Founder Institute Alumni get access to a series of advanced accelerator programs, ongoing support from our Silicon Valley Team, valuable partner and service discounts, and more to continue building the business for years to come.
Continued Support
Dedicated Alumni Support Team in Silicon Valley
Access to the world's largest network of mentors and investors (40,000+)
Private Alumni mailing lists
$2.5M+ in partner discounts
Invites to FI sessions & network events
Potential introductions to investors
Structured Post-Programs
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
The FI Venture Network matches Alumni ready for funding with a massive pool of investors that specialize in writing 'first or second checks' of funding
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