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 Create a Great First Startup Pitch using AI
·OnlineOnlineAI is a powerful tool to help aspiring entrepreneurs create a great pitch, but when used poorly it can also produce a pitch that sounds just like every other. Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CEO of Founder Institute, GP at Founder Capital) has worked with 10,000+ startups in his career and seen even more pitches. On this live event, he'll walk you through a structured process to create the first pitches for your startup idea, and share the tools and prompts founders are using in the Founder Institute to create memorable and effective pitches.
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/26692 to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to create an elevator pitch and your first pitch deck
- Which AI tools to use, and which to skip, during the pitch formation process
- How Investors look at startup pitches
- Helpful AI prompts, skills, and tools to supercharge your pitch-building process
❯ Featured Speaker:
- Jonathan Greechan - Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute - Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 and across over 100 countries, producing over 9,000 portfolio companies with nearly $2BN in venture funding. In his long career in tech and marketing, Jonathan has advised thousands of startups on marketing, growth, and product strategy and has spoken at startup conferences on four continents.
❯ Who Should Attend?
- Aspiring founders who want to start a business but lack technical skills
- Entrepreneurs exploring how AI can accelerate their startup journey
- Professionals considering launching a side project or solo startup
- Early-stage founders interested in AI-powered workflows
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/26692 to get your link and join us live!5 attendees
How to Build a Strong Pipeline of Entrepreneurs for your Innovation Hub
·OnlineOnlineMost innovation hubs and economic development programs underperform for the same structural reason: not enough promising applicants. The result? Empty incubators, freelancer-occupied co-working spaces, and funding going to a small number of un-promising companies. Drawing on lessons from 17 years running global incubators and accelerators, Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder and CEO of the Founder Institute) will walk through strategies that successful entrepreneurship programs use to generate large volumes of applicants and companies.
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/25272 to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You'll Learn:
- Why most innovation hubs and economic development programs underperform and the structural fixes that programs in 200+ cities have actually figured out.
- How to build connected programming that takes a workforce of latent talent all the way to deal-ready ventures plugged into your local capital.
- How to identify entrepreneurial talent already sitting inside your local workforce and what to do once you've found it.
- How AI-native tools are compressing program timelines and measurably increasing founder velocity, without becoming a buzzword.
- Real-world examples from the field
❯ Featured Speaker:
- Jonathan Greechan - Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute - Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and 100 countries, producing over 9,000 portfolio companies with nearly $2B in venture funding. In his long career in tech and marketing, Jonathan has advised thousands of startups on marketing, growth, and product strategy and has spoken at startup conferences on four continents.
❯ Who Should Attend?
- This session is designed for Innovation Hub Directors, Economic Development Officers, ESO leaders, Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associations, and City and County Leaders who want actionable strategies to create jobs, retain founders, attract investment, and take visible credit for regional growth.
❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/25272 to get your link and join us live!
3 attendees
AI-First Company: Emprender en la dirección correcta
·OnlineOnline¿Qué significa emprender en la dirección correcta cuando la IA está transformando cada industria? El próximo 2 de septiembre, a las 6:00 p. m. —hora de Bogotá—, acompáñanos en una sesión de Speed Mentoring de Founder Institute. Conversaremos sobre cómo construir startups en las que la IA no sea solo una herramienta adicional, sino un elemento central de la estrategia, la propuesta de valor y la capacidad de escalar. Exploraremos cómo convertir oportunidades tecnológicas en negocios con fundamentos claros: - Identificar un problema relevante. - Validar la oportunidad con el mercado. - Diseñar una propuesta de valor diferenciada. - Ejecutar con disciplina. - Construir una visión de crecimiento sostenible.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Gabriel Reyes (CEO, GNOSIS CONSULTORES LLC)
- Edgar Sulbarán (Socio Director, Anadia Consultores)
❯ What You'll Learn:
- Cómo adoptar una mentalidad AI-first sin perder de vista las necesidades reales del cliente.
- Cómo identificar oportunidades de negocio impulsadas por inteligencia artificial.
- Cómo validar un problema y una propuesta de valor antes de construir.
- Cómo integrar la IA en la estrategia y el modelo de negocio de una startup.
- Cómo diseñar negocios con potencial de diferenciación, escalabilidad y crecimiento sostenible.
- Cómo tomar mejores decisiones de negocio desde las primeras etapas.
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/404680/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
2 attendees
How to Go From Vibe-Coded to Production-Ready Products
·OnlineOnlineYou built the thing. It works in a demo, it looks real, and then someone asks whether it can handle a thousand users and take payments. That gap is where AI built products stall. The tools are excellent at getting you to a working prototype and almost silent about architecture, security, and everything that decides whether a product survives contact with customers. Carlos Ignacio Sanabria, Partnership Manager at Designli, has run dozens of code and UX audits on exactly these builds. He will show you what to look for, so you can find the problems before your users do.
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/404613/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You'll Learn:
- The three places vibe coded builds fail: architecture, security, and test coverage
- How to run a basic readiness check on your own build before you put it in front of customers
- Why context and guardrails around AI beat raw shipping speed, and what that looks like in practice
- How to move from build mode to hypothesis mode, testing assumptions instead of stacking features
- How to pick a North Star Metric that tells you whether the product is actually working
. ❯ Featured Speaker:
- Carlos Ignacio Sanabria - Partnership Manager @ Designli: Carlos is the Partnerships Manager at Designli, where he helps SaaS founders turn product ideas into clear development strategies and scalable roadmaps. He works with startups at every stage, from early concepts to live products that need stronger execution, better development operations, or a path back on track. Originally from Venezuela and now based in Mexico City, Carlos has worked across the US, UK, Australia, and Latin America, collaborating closely with founders, accelerators, and startup communities.
. ❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/404613/meetup to get your link and join us live!
3 attendees
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