Join our Global FounderX Conference in Silicon Valley
Moscow Winter 2014

Program Schedule

Our flagship 'FI Core' program combines structured sprints with constant feedback to help you reach the milestones needed for investment and growth.

29 дек.

Early Application Deadline

03 февр.

Final Application Deadline

10 февр. 06:30 вечера Session 1

Вводная лекция.

Готовы ли вы стать предпринимателем? Познакомились ли вы с другими участниками программы? Возможно, кто-то вам уже интересен как партнер? Кто возглавит вашу рабочую группу? Хотите ли вы стать президентом группы? 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
10 февраля 2014
Time
06:30утра PST

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.

  1. Office Hours - Book your first Office Hours with Local Leaders and Mentors to get guidance on the next steps for your business.
  2. 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
11 февр. 06:30 вечера Session 2

Бизнес-идея, видение своего бизнеса и предпринимательские ценности

Что такое хорошая бизнес-идея? Как ее найти? 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? Как запуск своей компании соотносится с вашими целями и видением?

Date
11 февраля 2014
Time
06:30утра PST

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.

  1. Market Research - Utilize our market research template to collect accurate and available market information on the customer problems you are analyzing.
  2. 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
17 февр. 06:30 вечера Session 3

Исследование рынка и Привлечение клиентов / Research & Customer Development

Как исследовать потенциальный рынок, чтобы протестировать свою бизнес-идею? Достаточно ли большой рынок для вашего продукта? Что означает “хороший” или “плохой” рынок? Уделять ли внимание конкурентам? Кто ваши конкуренты? На каких ключевых предположениях основана ваша бизнес-идея? Можно ли протестировать эти предположения еще на этапе идеи? Как найти потенциальных клиентов и собрать их мнение о продукте? Как грамотно построить опрос? ------------ ENG: What research can you do to validate or to kill an idea? Does the market that you choose matter? What are good markets, and what are bad markets? Do competitors matter and why? How do you define your competitive landscape? How do you determine the key assumptions of your business? Can key assumptions be tested? What are tactics to test key assumptions when you just have an idea? How do you identify and interview potential customers? What are some tactics for effective surveying?

Date
17 февраля 2014
Time
06:30утра PST

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
24 февр. 06:30 вечера Session 4

Модели монетизации / Revenue Models

Как будет ваш стартап зарабатывать? Какие бывают модели получения доходов, и каковы присущие им проблемы? Как определиться с выбором идеального клиента для конкретной модели монетизации? Как найти источники доходов в вашей модели? Что еще нужно знать, чтобы выстроить модель монетизации? Как выбрать между разными моделями и идеями? ------ ENG: How do you build a revenue model for your idea? What are viable revenue models to pursue? How do you identify ideal customers for a revenue model? What are some common problems with popular revenue models? Are there tips or tricks with different revenue models? How do you determine revenue drivers in your model? What do you need to know to finish a model? How do you choose between multiple revenue models and multiple ideas?

Date
24 февраля 2014
Time
06:30утра PST

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.

  1. Revenue Models - Narrow down that problem to three potential revenue models, and thoroughly analyze the positives and negatives of each model.
  2. 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
27 февр. 07:00 вечера Session 5

Pitch Hacks

Дмитрий Попов проведет тренинг по эффективной презентации стартапа. В преддверии Mentor Idea Review становится очень важным уметь рассказывать о своей идее так, чтобы вас не только понимали, но и хотели поддержать.

Date
27 февраля 2014
Time
07:00утра PST
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
03 марта 06:30 вечера Session 6

Название и позиционирование стартапа. // Naming and Positioning

“Как вы лодку назовете, так она и поплывет”. Как выбрать своему стартапу хорошее название? Как название связано с позиционированием? Чем отличается хорошее название? Как тестировать разные варианты? Какие нужны ресурсы для выбора названия? Как найти хорошее доменное имя? На каких социальных платформах нужно регистрироваться? Каким должен быть логотип? Вообще, важно ли название для стартапа? ----- ENG: How do you develop a good name for your business? How do you position the business with a name? What characteristics make a good name? How do you test different name candidates? What infrastructure do you need when you pick your name? Are there tips to finding a good domain name? What social media platforms should you look to get your name on? How do you develop a logo? Does a name really matter?

Date
03 марта 2014
Time
06:30утра PST
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 марта 06:00 вечера Session 7

Разработка приложений.

Все, что вы хотели узнать о разработке приложений, но не знали, у кого спросить. Внепрограммный семинар-консультация.

Date
05 марта 2014
Time
06:00утра PST
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
12 марта 06:30 вечера Session 8

Mentor Idea Review

Are you pursuing a viable business idea? Can you present the idea in a compelling way? Have you done sufficient research on the idea? Is there a viable market? What about about the business is likely to fail? How can the business be improved? Are you a good fit to build this business over the next three, five and ten years?

Date
12 марта 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
17 марта 06:30 вечера Session 9

Startup Legal and IP

What does a new Founder need to know about the law to launch a successful startup? How do you pick a law firm to work with? What is the process of setting up a company? How much do you need to know about the law? What agreements do you need to run a company? What are common legal mistakes? How do you handle intellectual property, including confidentiality, copyrights, trademarks and patents? How much does the law actually matter?

Date
17 марта 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
24 марта 06:30 вечера Session 10

Team and Advisors

How do you find the right team to launch your company? How do you identify the right set of advisors? How do you manage your advisors? What are responsibilities and compensation for advisors? How do you identify the right roles to help you launch a product or offering? Do you expect the roles to change over time? How can recruit people to fill roles when you have limited resources? What metrics do you track when recruiting? Do you need a cofounder? What are some common pitfalls with cofounder? Is a team necessary to launch a company?

Date
24 марта 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. Hiring Process - Develop a hiring and onboarding process using our guidelines to add team members into your organization, and begin executing on the process.
  2. 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
31 марта 06:30 вечера Session 11

Product Development

How do you plan to build a product or offering from the beginning? What are techniques to build a product roadmap? How do you specify what to build? How do you organize resources to build a product? What are strategies to estimate time and costs? What do you track to measure success? How often do you need to see milestones achieved? What are common mistakes when building product? How do you keep product progress ongoing when you have many competing priorities?

Date
31 марта 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
02 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 12

Rapid Prototyping 101

Мастер-класс про скоростное прототипирование цифровых проектов: сайтов, мобильных приложений, проектов и продуктов. Ведущие семинара: Thalient (Антон Уткин, Дмитрий Кириллов и Наталья Покровская).

Date
02 апреля 2014
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
07 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 13

Bits of Wisdom from Sergey Gribov

Сергей выступит на темы Legal/IP и Team/Advisors, после чего они вместе с Петром Татищевым дадут отзывы по вашим питчам, в качестве подготовки к выступлению перед менторами 11 апреля.

Date
07 апреля 2014
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
11 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 14

Mentor Progress Review

How do you present the business entering the last few weeks of the program? Is the presentation compelling? Can the business scale? How viable is the financial model? Is the plan to build the business realistic? Is the product or offering planned out well? Can the business generate revenue? What needs to be improved for the business to be successful?

Date
11 апреля 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. Polished Investor Pitch Deck - Create an expanded, 12-slide pitch deck incorporating any feedback from the Investor Progress Review, using our templates.
  2. 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
14 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 15

Sales and Traction

How do you identify and close your very first paying customers? What are best practices to charge these first paying customers? Should you charge more or less in the beginning? How do you develop a sales funnel or conversion funnel? What are some best practices to track leads and sales? How do you hustle leads and close the first sales, whether business licenses or consumer subscriptions? How do you develop a culture of sales and generating revenues in the early days of a new company?

Date
14 апреля 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
21 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 16

Branding and Marketing

How do you establish yourself as an expert in your field? What tools are used to follow important news and narratives? How do you identify and create industry narratives of your own? How do you identify and connect with influencers and journalists? What infrastructure do you need to be influential? How do you create content that attracts readers and commentary? How do you grow your influence in a market over time?

Date
21 апреля 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
28 апр. 06:30 вечера Session 17

Bootstrapping and Fundraising

What are the various ways to capitalize your company in the very beginning? How do you ask friends and family for money to support you? What are the advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping? What do local angel investors require before making an investment? How do you develop a target list of appropriate angel investors? What materials are required to raise angel investment? What milestones should you look to achieve next? How do you set your six month and twelve month objectives in the very beginning? How should you think about selling the business or exiting the business?

Date
28 апреля 2014
Time
07:30утра 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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
27 мая 07:00 вечера Session 18

Graduation

How do you ensure success after Graduation? How do you engage with your peers going forward? The Graduation is the beginning of an exciting period for Founders, where an idea becomes reality. Congratulations!

Date
27 мая 2014
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
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Team & Advisors
Fundraising & Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Session 19+

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
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
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

  • Exclusive for FI Alumni

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