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.
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.
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!
Join the group to be invited to our next event!
Upcoming events
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How to Build an AI Employee That Starts Today
·OnlineOnlineWhen you are the whole team, every lead you don't qualify and every customer email you answer at 11pm comes out of the hours you should spend building. You can't hire yet. An AI agent can take one of those jobs now. In this live session, Seth Ward, Founder & CEO of 4142, builds an AI agent from start to finish: connected to a real model, doing a single real job like qualifying a lead or drafting a follow-up, and deployed where it actually runs. No slides, and questions are open throughout. Register now and leave with a clear plan for your first AI hire.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to pick the one job in your company an AI agent should take on first;
- How to turn that job into instructions an agent can actually follow;
- How to connect the agent to a real AI model and give it the information it needs;
- How to deploy it somewhere it runs on its own, beyond a demo;
- How to repeat the same build for sales, support and follow-ups as your company grows.
❯ Featured Speaker:
- Seth Ward - Founder & CEO @ 4142, an AI foundry behind Squidgy, Handled, YEAA and FanatIQ. Through Squidgy, his team lets entrepreneurs and small businesses describe a task in plain English and turn it into an AI agent with no code. In 1995 he co-founded i, one of the first web marketing agencies, and went on to work with Vodafone, AOL and News International before serving as CEO of Pynk. Based in London, he runs live AI agent build sessions for founders, including at Nomad Cruise and Bansko Nomad Fest.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Aspiring founders who want to see what an AI agent can do inside a real business;
- Solo founders handling sales, support and admin on their own;
- Professionals with deep industry expertise planning the move from employee to entrepreneur;
- Anyone curious about AI who wants to build with it, not just read about it.
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/407649/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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Go-to-Market in the AI Era: How to Stand Out When Anyone Can Build
·OnlineOnlineAI has made it faster than ever to build a product. It has also made it faster for everyone else. When a competitor can copy your features in a weekend, what sets you apart is how well you go to market: who you serve, how clearly you explain why you’re different, and whether people trust you enough to buy. In this session, award-winning founder and brand strategist Daniel Francavilla shares how founders can build a sharp go-to-market plan for a crowded AI market. Bring your questions for the live Q&A.
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❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/409002/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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❯ What You'll Learn:- Define a customer so specific that your messaging almost writes itself
- Turn your own expertise into content that builds your brand and drives demand
- Use AI to speed up research and content, without sounding like everyone else
- Pick one or two channels and test your launch with small bets before you go all in
❯ Featured Speaker:
- Daniel is a Certified Brand Strategist and a professor at OCAD University. Through his studio, Clarity Content, he helps founders and leaders turn their expertise into content that builds their brand and drives demand. He founded his first agency in 2013, which was acquired in 2021, and led brand strategy there until 2024. In 2026, The Peak named him one of its Emerging Leaders for Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Canadian Marketing Association and RGD, and founded The Good Growth Company and the nonprofit ACCESS.
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/409002/meetup to get your link and join us live!1 attendee
Past events
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