About us
Startup Founder 101 brings together aspiring and experienced tech entrepreneurs to discuss, meet, and collaborate to build great new startups, and to push the local startup ecosystem forward.\
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This group hosts numerous free events throughout the year where you can learn the best practices of starting a company from people who have been there and done that. You’ll have the opportunity to meet local founders and investors, exchange ideas with experts, get feedback on your idea, participate in startup workshops, and more.\
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Typical startup event topics include:\
• Coming up with a strong startup idea\
• Startup legal basics\
• How to pitch your startup\
• Starting a company without quitting your day job\
• How to raise funding for your startup\
• And much more!\
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Join the group to be invited to our next event!
Upcoming events
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How to Start an AI Startup Without Quitting Your Job
·OnlineOnlineLeaving a stable job can feel like the price of entry for starting a company. For most first-time founders it is the wrong first step. Research on founders who kept their jobs while starting found they were less likely to fail than those who quit first. This session shows how to build on nights and weekends: what to work on in the first months, how to keep your side project separate from your job, and which signals say it is time to go full time. Register now and start with the job you already have.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Ayhan K. Isaacs (Head of Global Growth, Founder Institute)
❯ What You'll Learn:
- What to work on in your first months when you only have nights and weekends
- How AI tools let one person with a full-time job make real progress
- How to keep your side project clear of your employer's time and equipment
- Which signals tell you it is time to go full time
- How structured, part-time programs fit around a day job
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Employed professionals with an idea and no plan to quit yet
- People who want to test a startup before taking a financial risk
- Aspiring founders with family or financial commitments
- Anyone who has put off starting because they cannot leave their job
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406071/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
11 attendees
Vibe Code Your AI MVP in 60 Minutes
·OnlineOnline60 minutes on the clock. A blank screen. An idea picked by audience vote. By the end of the hour, it's a working app.
This is vibe coding done live with AI, using Replit and Claude and no traditional code. You'll see every prompt, every fix when something breaks, and the order of steps that turns a rough idea into an MVP you could put in front of a customer. Register now and bring an idea. If it wins the vote, it gets built.❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Ayhan K. Isaacs (Head of Marketing, Founder Institute)
❯ What You'll Learn:
- The AI build stack in plain English: what Replit and Claude each do, and how they work together;
- The vibe coding workflow, live: how a plain-English prompt becomes a running application, step by step;
- How to turn an idea into prompts: breaking a product into pieces an AI builder can act on;
- Where non-technical founders get stuck: the most common friction points and how to get past them without writing code;
- Your next step toward a working app: what to build first after the session, and how to put it in front of real customers.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Non-technical founders who have been waiting for a technical co-founder;
- Professionals who use AI daily but have never built anything with it;
- Idea-stage founders who need to see something real before committing;
- Anyone who believes they cannot start a company because they cannot code.
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/405479/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
5 attendees
Past events
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