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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Meet the Directors of Founder Institute London (Online Info Session)
·OnlineOnlineInvestors are pissed off with decks right now. This is because founders are creating AI slop. Learn how to create the perfect deck with Shaun Gold from OpenVC and Mercedes Bankston from Loyal VC. Then, for sixty seconds, you pitch. Everyone else in the room learns from your mistake so they do not have to make it themselves. Any stage counts, including an idea you have never said out loud. Register now and bring it.
❯ Featured Mentors:
- Shaun Gold (Chief Evangelist, OpenVC)
- Mercedes Bankston (Venture Partner, Loyal VC)
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to create an excellent deck
- How to avoid the AI slop
- How to open a pitch so the room knows what you do in one sentence;
- The structure investors and mentors expect, in the order they expect it;
- How to talk about traction when you have none;
- The mistake most founders make at this stage, and the fix;
- How to take feedback in the room without arguing with it.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Founders preparing to pitch investors, mentors, or an accelerator;
- Founders not getting anywhere with VCs
- Idea-stage founders who have never pitched to strangers;
- Anyone who has pitched and could not tell why it did not land;
- People who want to learn by watching others get honest feedback.
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/407499/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
2 attendees
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!
9 attendees
Past events
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