This is where it all begins. During Orientation, we will review the Founder Institute program structure, curriculum, tools, and requirements. You will review why you have pursued entrepreneurship, and how you or your team will use the program to push your business or business idea forward.
Assignments
During Orientation, Founders and teams will be segmented into the “Standard Founder” or “Advanced Founder” assignment tracks, depending on the stage of their business or business idea.
These assignments are in addition to any custom "Special Assignments" Founders receive based on their specific challenges, and below is a small sample of the assignments you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Standard Founder Assignments
Progress - If you have started working on one or more ideas before the program, outline each of your ideas and any testing or progress made to date.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one minute verbal pitch for the weekly “Founder Hotseat”, where you present to Mentors during the sessions. Start with our one-sentence pitch template, and if you do not have a final idea yet, describe yourself and a field that you are passionate about and uniquely qualified to build a business around.
Co-Founders - If you are looking for a Co-founder, create a basic description of what you are looking for, and this will be shared with the rest of your cohort.
Advanced Founder Assignments
Program Goals - Outline the monthly objectives you or your team want to achieve with your business while participating in Founder Institute, including the specific support you feel that we can give you to succeed beyond the curriculum.
Key Performance Indicators - Outline the specific metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) that you are currently using to track success. Analyze the validity of these metrics, and create a plan to share updated metrics and progress with your Directors every week in the program.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one minute verbal pitch for the weekly “Founder Hotseat”, where you present to Mentors during the sessions. Start with our one-sentence pitch template, followed by why you are uniquely qualified to pursue the idea, and any progress that you’ve made to date.
Date
mai 16, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
In this session, you’ll hear from a panel of experienced Mentors on how to develop startup ideas, how to properly pitch your ideas and strategies, and how to analyze your existing ideas or business. Founders will also present their startup idea to the Mentors and receive in-depth feedback on how to improve their idea and pitch.
Assignments
Below are just a few of the 10-15 assignments you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Standard Founder Assignments
Ideation - Catalogue the ideas that you are interested in pursuing, or explore different business opportunities in your areas of interest or expertise.
Customer Problems - Translate three of your top startup ideas into customer problems that you will explore turning into a business.
Initial Interviews - Using our templates, interview at least 15 people that have knowledge of the customer problems or may be potential customers themselves.
Market Research - Utilize our market research template to collect accurate and available market information on the customer problems you are analyzing.
Advanced Founder Assignments
Customer Problem - Outline the main customer problem and any alternative customer problems that you are trying to solve, and get feedback from your peers in the program.
Customer Interviews - Using our templates, interview at least 5 people that have knowledge of the customer problem or may be potential customers themselves. If you have done similar interviews in the last 60 days then outline this feedback.
Identify Unknowns - Create a step-by-step strategy to thoroughly validate that the main customer problem exists and fill any required gaps in your customer knowledge.
Plans - Describe what your business will look like when it has $100 million in annual revenues, including the vision, culture, and main revenue stream, and write at least 5 steps that need to happen for your company to reach that goal.
Date
mai 17, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
mai 23, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
mai 30, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
jun 06, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
jun 13, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
jun 20, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
jun 28, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
jul 11, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Semelhante ao Mentor Idea Review, o Mentor Progress Review é o segundo grande teste do programa. Nesta sessão, os Fundadores se concentrarão em apresentar seu progresso e tração a um painel de Mentores para uma revisão detalhada. Os mentores avaliarão os Fundadores com base em seu progresso, seu plano de entrada no mercado, a escalabilidade da empresa e muito mais.
atribuições
Abaixo estão apenas algumas das 10-15 tarefas que você completará através de Grupos de Trabalho e Horários de Escritório:
Investor Pitch Deck - Crie um baralho de pitch expandido de 12 slides incorporando qualquer feedback do Mentor Progress Review, usando nossos modelos.
Crescimento - Faça progresso em suas metas de crescimento e examine ou ajuste como sua estratégia e o sistema para se manter responsável estão sendo executados.
Produto - progride no seu próximo lançamento de produto e descreva e resolva qualquer um dos contratempos enfrentados por sua equipe de projeto.
Contratação de Necessidades - Marque o progresso de cada membro da sua equipe de projeto em uma escala de 1 a 10, incluindo você mesmo, e estabeleça planos para melhorar aqueles que estão com dificuldades.
Finalize Advisory Board - Set up your advisory board with startup, industry, technology or marketing advisors, and set up a one hour conference call with all of the them, which will be your first quarterly advisory board meeting.
Bookkeeping - Start regular bookkeeping processes if you have not already, and implement tools, accounts, and monthly processes to manage it moving forward.
Accountant Interviews - If you don’t have an accountant already, begin interviewing potential organizations using our processes. You will need a startup-friendly accountant to understand your unique needs.
Atualização do Modelo Financeiro - Revise e atualize seu modelo financeiro com o trabalho realizado até o momento. Ajuste as projeções de receita com base no seu crescimento até o momento e avalie a necessidade e os requisitos de financiamento externo.
Date
jul 18, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Nesta sessão, os Mentores passaram a se especializar no sentido de se inscrever, a administrar e a reter como melhores pessoas para os papéis e muito mais. Os fundadores também recebem feedback dos mentores sobre os planos de equipe e o progresso do produto.
atribuições
Abaixo estão apenas algumas das 10-15 tarefas que você completará através de Grupos de Trabalho e Horários de Escritório:
Terceirização - Identifique quais funções você deve terceirizar e use seu trabalho recente de lançamento, vendas e trabalho de programa para atualizar ou executar suas necessidades de contratação.
Candidates - Search for candidates to hire (including Co-Founders) by identifying everyone that you know who is appropriate, or leveraging the FI network, to fill the top two or three roles you are not planning to outsource.
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 a credible candidate to demonstrate their skills.
Advisor Review - Arrange a meeting or phone call with at least one of your advisors to discuss your outsourcing and hiring work. Present everything that you have done, and incorporate their feedback into your planning.
Recruiting Outreach - Based on the feedback from your advisors, create a list of events and activities that you will attend or undertake each week for the next three months to identify new candidates for the top two or three roles.
Alocação de tempo - Descreva meticulosamente o cronograma de seu fundador, alocando blocos semanais de tempo para abordar suas principais atividades de negócios, oferecendo a você um tempo ininterrupto para trabalhar em cada atividade.
(Opcional) Apresentação da Fundação de Fundação para a prospecção de documentos e pesquisa para uma Rodada de Fundação.
Date
jul 25, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
ago 01, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
ago 08, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Date
ago 15, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
Graduar-se no Instituto Fundador é uma honra. O programa é desafiador e o currículo é exigente. This session final, you celebrara a formatação com seus colegas, amigos e familiares, bem como Mentores selecionados de acordo com suas necessidades de liderança para administrar uma empresa de sucesso. Você também aprendeu sobre todos os recursos e assistência pós-programa pelo Instituto Fundador.
atribuições
Prestação de contas - Criar um plano para manter-se e um plano de estudos e um programa de negócios.
Liderança - analise como você cresceu como líder de startups durante o programa, destacando os pontos positivos, negativos e em quais aspectos você precisa crescer no futuro.
Visão - Revise sua visão original para o negócio e descreva por que você ainda está animado para perseguir a visão e por que sua equipe e estratégia estão alinhadas para alcançá-la.
Perseverança - Desenvolver um sistema para avançar, manter o foco e entregar valor nos tempos difíceis inevitáveis para a construção de um negócio duradouro.
Priorização - Finalize seu sistema para priorizar projetos complexos em situações igualmente complexas, bem como sua rotina semanal e "Programação do Fundador".
Celebração - Além da celebração do FI, planejou uma comemoração em grupo com seus colegas. Como líder de startups, é importante celebrar todos os marcos e sucessos.
Date
nov 27, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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.
Weekly Focus
1. Orientation
2. Vision and Validation
3. Customer Development
4. Revenue
5. Mentor Idea Review
6. Legal
7. Go-to-Market Planning
8. Product Development
9. Mentor Progress Review
10. Hiring and Onboarding
11. Growth
12. Equity and Funding
13. Leadership and 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
This is where it all begins. During Orientation, we will review the Founder Institute program structure, curriculum, tools, and requirements. You will review why you have pursued entrepreneurship, and how you or your team will use the program to push your business or business idea forward.
Assignments
During Orientation, Founders and teams will be segmented into the “Standard Founder” or “Advanced Founder” assignment tracks, depending on the stage of their business or business idea.
These assignments are in addition to any custom "Special Assignments" Founders receive based on their specific challenges, and below is a small sample of the assignments you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Standard Founder Assignments
Progress - If you have started working on one or more ideas before the program, outline each of your ideas and any testing or progress made to date.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one minute verbal pitch for the weekly “Founder Hotseat”, where you present to Mentors during the sessions. Start with our one-sentence pitch template, and if you do not have a final idea yet, describe yourself and a field that you are passionate about and uniquely qualified to build a business around.
Co-Founders - If you are looking for a Co-founder, create a basic description of what you are looking for, and this will be shared with the rest of your cohort.
Advanced Founder Assignments
Program Goals - Outline the monthly objectives you or your team want to achieve with your business while participating in Founder Institute, including the specific support you feel that we can give you to succeed beyond the curriculum.
Key Performance Indicators - Outline the specific metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) that you are currently using to track success. Analyze the validity of these metrics, and create a plan to share updated metrics and progress with your Directors every week in the program.
Hotseat Pitch - Prepare a one minute verbal pitch for the weekly “Founder Hotseat”, where you present to Mentors during the sessions. Start with our one-sentence pitch template, followed by why you are uniquely qualified to pursue the idea, and any progress that you’ve made to date.
Date
mai 16, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
mai 1707:00 pmSession 2
Vision and Validation
In this session, you’ll hear from a panel of experienced Mentors on how to develop startup ideas, how to properly pitch your ideas and strategies, and how to analyze your existing ideas or business. Founders will also present their startup idea to the Mentors and receive in-depth feedback on how to improve their idea and pitch.
Assignments
Below are just a few of the 10-15 assignments you’ll complete through Working Groups and Office Hours:
Standard Founder Assignments
Ideation - Catalogue the ideas that you are interested in pursuing, or explore different business opportunities in your areas of interest or expertise.
Customer Problems - Translate three of your top startup ideas into customer problems that you will explore turning into a business.
Initial Interviews - Using our templates, interview at least 15 people that have knowledge of the customer problems or may be potential customers themselves.
Market Research - Utilize our market research template to collect accurate and available market information on the customer problems you are analyzing.
Advanced Founder Assignments
Customer Problem - Outline the main customer problem and any alternative customer problems that you are trying to solve, and get feedback from your peers in the program.
Customer Interviews - Using our templates, interview at least 5 people that have knowledge of the customer problem or may be potential customers themselves. If you have done similar interviews in the last 60 days then outline this feedback.
Identify Unknowns - Create a step-by-step strategy to thoroughly validate that the main customer problem exists and fill any required gaps in your customer knowledge.
Plans - Describe what your business will look like when it has $100 million in annual revenues, including the vision, culture, and main revenue stream, and write at least 5 steps that need to happen for your company to reach that goal.
Date
mai 17, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
mai 23
Refund Deadline
mai 2307:00 pmSession 3
Customer Development
Date
mai 23, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
mai 3007:00 pmSession 4
Revenue
Date
mai 30, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jun 0607:00 pmSession 5
Branding and Design
Date
jun 06, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jun 1307:00 pmSession 6
Mentor Idea Review
Date
jun 13, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jun 2007:00 pmSession 7
Legal
Date
jun 20, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jun 2807:00 pmSession 8
Go-to-Market Planning
Date
jun 28, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jul 1107:00 pmSession 9
Product Development
Date
jul 11, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jul 1807:00 pmSession 10
Mentor Progress Review
Semelhante ao Mentor Idea Review, o Mentor Progress Review é o segundo grande teste do programa. Nesta sessão, os Fundadores se concentrarão em apresentar seu progresso e tração a um painel de Mentores para uma revisão detalhada. Os mentores avaliarão os Fundadores com base em seu progresso, seu plano de entrada no mercado, a escalabilidade da empresa e muito mais.
atribuições
Abaixo estão apenas algumas das 10-15 tarefas que você completará através de Grupos de Trabalho e Horários de Escritório:
Investor Pitch Deck - Crie um baralho de pitch expandido de 12 slides incorporando qualquer feedback do Mentor Progress Review, usando nossos modelos.
Crescimento - Faça progresso em suas metas de crescimento e examine ou ajuste como sua estratégia e o sistema para se manter responsável estão sendo executados.
Produto - progride no seu próximo lançamento de produto e descreva e resolva qualquer um dos contratempos enfrentados por sua equipe de projeto.
Contratação de Necessidades - Marque o progresso de cada membro da sua equipe de projeto em uma escala de 1 a 10, incluindo você mesmo, e estabeleça planos para melhorar aqueles que estão com dificuldades.
Finalize Advisory Board - Set up your advisory board with startup, industry, technology or marketing advisors, and set up a one hour conference call with all of the them, which will be your first quarterly advisory board meeting.
Bookkeeping - Start regular bookkeeping processes if you have not already, and implement tools, accounts, and monthly processes to manage it moving forward.
Accountant Interviews - If you don’t have an accountant already, begin interviewing potential organizations using our processes. You will need a startup-friendly accountant to understand your unique needs.
Atualização do Modelo Financeiro - Revise e atualize seu modelo financeiro com o trabalho realizado até o momento. Ajuste as projeções de receita com base no seu crescimento até o momento e avalie a necessidade e os requisitos de financiamento externo.
Date
jul 18, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
jul 2507:00 pmSession 11
Hiring and Onboarding
Nesta sessão, os Mentores passaram a se especializar no sentido de se inscrever, a administrar e a reter como melhores pessoas para os papéis e muito mais. Os fundadores também recebem feedback dos mentores sobre os planos de equipe e o progresso do produto.
atribuições
Abaixo estão apenas algumas das 10-15 tarefas que você completará através de Grupos de Trabalho e Horários de Escritório:
Terceirização - Identifique quais funções você deve terceirizar e use seu trabalho recente de lançamento, vendas e trabalho de programa para atualizar ou executar suas necessidades de contratação.
Candidates - Search for candidates to hire (including Co-Founders) by identifying everyone that you know who is appropriate, or leveraging the FI network, to fill the top two or three roles you are not planning to outsource.
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 a credible candidate to demonstrate their skills.
Advisor Review - Arrange a meeting or phone call with at least one of your advisors to discuss your outsourcing and hiring work. Present everything that you have done, and incorporate their feedback into your planning.
Recruiting Outreach - Based on the feedback from your advisors, create a list of events and activities that you will attend or undertake each week for the next three months to identify new candidates for the top two or three roles.
Alocação de tempo - Descreva meticulosamente o cronograma de seu fundador, alocando blocos semanais de tempo para abordar suas principais atividades de negócios, oferecendo a você um tempo ininterrupto para trabalhar em cada atividade.
(Opcional) Apresentação da Fundação de Fundação para a prospecção de documentos e pesquisa para uma Rodada de Fundação.
Date
jul 25, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
ago 0107:00 pmSession 12
Growth
Date
ago 01, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
ago 0807:00 pmSession 13
Equity and Funding
Date
ago 08, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
ago 1507:00 pmSession 14
Final Mentor Review
Date
ago 15, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
nov 2707:00 pmSession 15
Leadership and Graduation
Graduar-se no Instituto Fundador é uma honra. O programa é desafiador e o currículo é exigente. This session final, you celebrara a formatação com seus colegas, amigos e familiares, bem como Mentores selecionados de acordo com suas necessidades de liderança para administrar uma empresa de sucesso. Você também aprendeu sobre todos os recursos e assistência pós-programa pelo Instituto Fundador.
atribuições
Prestação de contas - Criar um plano para manter-se e um plano de estudos e um programa de negócios.
Liderança - analise como você cresceu como líder de startups durante o programa, destacando os pontos positivos, negativos e em quais aspectos você precisa crescer no futuro.
Visão - Revise sua visão original para o negócio e descreva por que você ainda está animado para perseguir a visão e por que sua equipe e estratégia estão alinhadas para alcançá-la.
Perseverança - Desenvolver um sistema para avançar, manter o foco e entregar valor nos tempos difíceis inevitáveis para a construção de um negócio duradouro.
Priorização - Finalize seu sistema para priorizar projetos complexos em situações igualmente complexas, bem como sua rotina semanal e "Programação do Fundador".
Celebração - Além da celebração do FI, planejou uma comemoração em grupo com seus colegas. Como líder de startups, é importante celebrar todos os marcos e sucessos.
Date
nov 27, 2018
Time
12:00pm 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
Pitching
Customer Development
Leadership Development
Sales & Customer Acquisition
Product Development
Team & Advisors
Fundraising & Prep
Post-Program Onboarding
Session 16+
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