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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Pitch the Problem your startup tackles: Live Feedback by Mentors/Investors
·OnlineOnlineYour pitch has a problem you cannot hear. You have said it enough times that it sounds fine to you. Re-write your pitch to only explain the problem your startup solves. Leave out the tech/features. Tell our mentors and investors in less than 1 minute who has what problem, why? how costly/painful? how frequent? how do you get in front of them? how many are you already talking to or helping? In this session founders pitch the problem they address and get questions and structured feedback on the spot, and everyone else learns from watching someone else's mistake instead of making it. Bring a problem focused pitch at any stage, including one that is still only an idea. Register now and say it out loud to people who will tell you the truth.
❯ Featured Mentors include:
- Benjamin Chong (Partner, Right Click Capital)
- Neil Smith (Co-founder, CSO, Simple KYC)
- Paul Krajewski (Product Management professional, Co-Director Founder Institute Australia+NZ)
- Keith Forbes (Executive Leadership & Advisory, Concise Consulting)
To get the most out of this Pitch for Feedback event:
- Come ready for live video networking
- To prepare, write down: who has what problem, why? how costly/painful? how frequent? how do you get in front of them? how many are you already talking to or helping?
- Fill out our Elevator Pitch Worksheet.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How stop talking about tech and features;
- How to talk about traction when you do not have any yet;
- The most common mistake in pitches at this stage, and the fix;
- How to handle the question you were hoping nobody would ask.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Founders preparing to pitch investors, mentors, or an accelerator;
- Idea-stage founders who have never said their idea out loud to strangers;
- Anyone who has pitched and could not tell why it did not land;
- Founders who want to learn by watching others get feedback.
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/408352/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
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