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 Investors: Funding Agentic Companies | AI-Native Series #4
One Lincoln, One Lincoln Street, Boston, MA, USWhat does it take to raise for an AI-native company right now? Join FI Boston for a candid panel with early-stage investors on how they evaluate agentic and AI-native startups: what excites them, what raises flags, and what they want to see before writing a check. We'll get into valuations, traction signals for agentic products, team, and the questions founders should be ready to answer. Part of FI Boston's AI-Native Series. Bring your fundraising questions.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Kristen Craft (Head of Partnerships, Fidelity Private Shares)
- Abhi Yadav (CEO, iCustomer)
- Ignacio Castro (Managing Partner, 128vc)
- Rob May (CEO, Neurometric)
- John Harthorne (Founder & Managing Director, Two Lanterns Venture Capital)
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❯❯ This is an in-person event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406816/meetup to secure your spot and receive further details.
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The Product-Market Fit Journey: Market Signals, Analytics & Tech Decisions
·OnlineOnlineBuilding a product is easier than ever, but knowing what to change as you grow is still one of the hardest parts of finding product-market fit. In this session, we'll walk through three layers founders need to get right: reading market signals to decide who you serve and when to pivot, using product analytics to understand how customers actually use what you've built, and making infrastructure decisions that support growth without adding complexity you don't need yet. You'll leave with practical frameworks for each layer and a simple diagnostic for figuring out where your biggest problem really lives.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CIO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital)
- Carlos Ignacio Sanabria (Partnerships Manager, Designli)
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/406838/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You'll Learn:
- Which market signals show who your best customers are, and when it's time to pivot
- How to use product analytics to see how customers actually use what you've built
- Which metrics matter at your stage, and which ones can wait
- How to make infrastructure decisions that support growth without adding complexity you don't need yet
- A simple diagnostic to find out whether your biggest problem is the market, the product or the tech
❯ 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.
About Designli: Designli helps you build software people actually pay for, plugging SaaS experts into your team with a system that's helped 200+ companies build and scale.
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/406838/meetup to get your link and join us live!3 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!
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