Launch an AI Startup In Silicon Valley this Summer
Kansai Spring 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.

4月 13

Early Application Deadline

4月 27

Final Application Deadline

5月 14 06:30 pm week 1

オリエンテーション

Are you ready to be an entrepreneur? How well do you know your peers in the program? Is there someone that might be your Cofounder from the program? Who will lead your Working Group as President? What do you need to know to be successful in the Founder Institute? Which traits do you have that can help you be successful?

起業家になる用意はできているか。プログラムに参加する仲間についてはどのくらい知っているか。共同創業者になりそうな人はプログラムにいるか。リーダーとしてワーキンググループを引率するには誰がふさわしいか。ファウンダー・インスティテュートで成果を上げるためには何を知っておくべきか。起業家として成功するために必要な特性を自分は持ち合わせているか。

Date
5月 14, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
5月 15 06:30 pm week 1

ビジョンとアイデア

What is a good idea? How do you come up with good ideas? Does passion matter with ideas? How can you tell what you are passionate about? How do you translate your passion into one or more business ideas? What basic tools should every Founder have from the start? What tools should Founders use to develop their ideas in the beginning? How does being a Founder align with personal goals, objectives and vision?

良いビジネスアイデアとは何か。良いビジネスアイデアはどうすれば生まれるか。自身の情熱はビジネスアイデアに関係するか。自身が情熱を他人に対して言い表すことができるか。自身の情熱をどのようにして複数のビジネスアイデアに発展させるか。全ての起業家が使うべき基本的なツールとは。起業家が自身のビジネスアイデアを発展させる際に使うべきツールとは。起業家になることは自身のゴール・目的・ビジョンにどのように合致するか。

Date
5月 15, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
5月 22

Refund Deadline

5月 22 06:30 pm week 2

リサーチと顧客開発

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?

ビジネスアイデアを検証または却下するにはどのようなリサーチが行えるか。市場とビジネスアイデアは関係があるのか。良い市場とはなにか、悪い市場とはなにか。自身のビジネスのための前提条件をどのように決定するのか。前提条件を検証することはできるか。アイデアだけの状態で前提条件を検証するための方法とは何か。潜在顧客をどのように特定し、インタビューを行うか。効果的なヒアリングの方法とは何か。

Date
5月 22, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
5月 29 06:30 pm week 3

収益モデル

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?

自身のビジネスアイデアに対してどのように収益モデルを構築するのか。実現可能な収益モデルとは何か。想定される顧客をどのように特定するのか。一般的な収益モデルに共通する問題とは何か。異なる収益モデルにについて知っておくべきことは。自身の収益モデルに対する収益源をどのように特定するのか。収益モデルを完成させるために知っておくべきことは。複数のビジネスアイデアと収益モデルからどのようにして1つに絞り込むのか。

Date
5月 29, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
6月 05 06:30 pm week 4

ネーミングとポジショニング

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?

あなどのようにして優れたビジネスの名前を作るのか。名前を使ってビジネスをどうポジショニングするのか。優れた名前の特徴とは。複数の異なる名前の候補をどのように検証するのか。名前を決める際に必要な仕組みとは。優れたドメイン名を獲得するための手法とは。どのようなソーシャル・メディアを活用するべきか。どのようにしてロゴを作るのか。名前は本当に重要なのか。

Date
6月 05, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST
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
6月 12 06:30 pm week 5

メンター アイデア レビュー

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 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?

実現可能なビジネスアイデアがあるか。説得力を持って自分のビジネスアイデアを説明できるか。ビジネアイデアについて十分なリサーチを行ったか。本当に市場は存在するのか。ビジネスがうまく行かない場合はどうするか。ビジネスをどのように改善させるか。そのビジネスを今後3年、5年、10年間続けて行くだけの心構えがあるか。

Date
6月 12, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
6月 19 06:30 pm week 6

スタートアップのための法務と知的財産

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?

会社を立ち上げる際に起業家が知っておくべき法律とは。法律事務所をどのようにして選ぶのか。会社を登記するための手順とは。法律についてどの程度知っておくべきか。会社を運営するために必要な契約書とは。法律に関するよくある間違いとは。機密保持、コピーライト、商標、特許などの知的財産をどのように管理するのか。法務はどの程度重要なのか。

Date
6月 19, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
6月 26 06:30 pm week 7

チームとアドバイザー

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?

会社を立ち上げるために最良のチームをどのように見つけるか。適切なアドバイザー陣の選び方は。アドバイザー陣をどのように活用するか。アドバイザー陣の責任と報酬は。プロダクトやサービスをローンチするための適切なメンバーをどう決めるか。そのメンバーは時間の経過と共に変わることがあるか。限られたリソースの中で、どのようにメンバーをマネジメントするか。採用の基準は何か。共同創業者は必要か。共同創業者との関係で注意すべき点は何か。会社を立ち上げるためにチームは必要か。

Date
6月 26, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
7月 03 06:30 pm week 8

プロダクト開発

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?

製品やサービスの構築をどのように計画するか。製品ロードマップを構築するための手法とは。作るべきものをどのように定義するのか。製品を構築するためのリソースをどのように手するのか。かかる時間と費用を見積る方法は。うまく進んでいることをどのように判断するのか。マイルストーン達成はどの程度の頻度で行う必要があるか。製品構築の際に共通して見られる過ちとは。他にプライオリティの高いタスクが同時並行で進んでいる状態で、どのように製品構築を進捗させるか。

Date
7月 03, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
7月 10 06:30 pm week 9

メンター プログレス レビュー

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?

数週間前に登記を行った自身のビジネスをどのようにプレゼンするか。プレゼンには十分説得力があるか。ビジネスはスケール可能なものか。財務モデルは実現可能なものか。ビジネスの構築計画は現実的なものか。プロダクトやサービスは十分に考え抜かれたものか。自身のビジネスは利益を産む事ができるか。ビジネスを成功させるには、何を改善しなかればいけないか。

Date
7月 10, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
7月 17 06:30 pm week 10

セールスとトラクション

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?

お金を払ってくれる一番最初の顧客をどのように特定して、獲得するのか。これらの最初の顧客に対して課金する際の最優良事例とは。初期の段階において課金の金額は高くすべきか、それとも安くすべきか。営業達成プロセス、もしくはコンバージョン達成プロセスをどのように開発するのか。見込案件や営業案件を計測するための最優良事例とは。ビジネス向けのライセンス販売、もしくはコンシューマー向けのサブスクリプション販売などの販売方法に関わらず、見込案件の中からどのようにして最初の売上を確定するのか。創業初期において、営業体制と売上確保の仕組みをどのように構築するのか。

Date
7月 17, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
7月 24 06:30 pm week 11

ブランディングとマーケティング

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?

特定の分野での専門家としてのブランドを築く方法は?そのため重要なニュースや体験談などの情報を収集するためのツールは?あなたがその事業に取り組むことになったストーリーの構築方法は?影響力のある人物やジャーナリズムとの関係作りは?影響力を発揮するにはどのようなインフラが必要でしょうか?読者やコメンテーターの興味を掻き立てるためのコンテンツ作りとは?自分のマーケットにおいて、如何に長期間に渡って影響力を発揮し続けるか?

Date
7月 24, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
7月 31 06:30 pm week 12

自己資本と資金調達

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?

先ず最初に、資金調達方法にはどのようなものがあるか?どのように友達や家族に資金供与を頼みますか?自力でのスタートアップの利点と欠点は?投資の前に、エンジェルが何を必要としているか?どのように自分がターゲットとする適切なエンジェル投資家のリストを構築しますか?エンジェル投資家からの資金調達ではどんな資料や書類が必要ですか?次のステップとして何をしなければなりませんか?先ず、6か月、12か月の資金計画をどのように設定しますか?出口戦略(EXIT)については?

Date
7月 31, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST

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
8月 07 06:30 pm week 13

卒業式

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!

卒業後どのように成功を掴むか。あなたはビジネスを進めていくにあたって、将来、仲間とどのように関わって行くのか。FIからの旅立ちは、各ファウンダーにとって“自分ンが育んできたアイデアを現実のものとする”エキサイティングな創業の始まりです!卒業おめでとうございます!!

Date
8月 07, 2014
Time
02:00pm IST
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 14+

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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