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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Is Your Startup Idea Worth Quitting For? (And How AI Changes the Leap)
·OnlineOnlineEveryone talks about the leap. Few talk about the moment right before it, when the idea is still just an idea and the paycheck is still guaranteed. In this session, founders from Egypt who left full-time roles to build their own startups share what happened next: how they knew, what they got wrong, and what they would tell someone standing where they once stood. They'll also talk about how AI has changed the math, making it faster and cheaper to test an idea before you hand in your notice. This is not a highlight reel. It is an honest look at the decision itself, and the second event in Founder Institute Egypt's recruiting series.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- George Fahmy (Founder & CEO, Stakpak)
- Ayman Metwally (Founder & CEO, Stream Controls)
- Dalia Rehab (Program Manager, Founder Institute)
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How founders decided when it was time to leave their jobs and commit full-time
- How AI is making it faster and cheaper to test your idea before you quit
- What they validated before making the leap
- How to distinguish a promising startup opportunity from an exciting idea
- The financial, personal, and professional realities of becoming a full-time founder
- What founders wish they had done before quitting
- How to test your idea while still employed
- When you should quit, and when you should wait
- What early progress can tell you about whether your startup is worth pursuing
- How Founder Institute helps you validate your idea and build the foundations for a scalable company with AI-powered tools and agents
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Aspiring founders and early-stage entrepreneurs looking to connect and learn.
- Anyone who is looking for a cofounder or would want to join a startup as a cofounder.
- Anyone interested in joining a startup accelerator.
- Anyone who has a pre-seed tech company or a startup idea.
❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/404186/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
1 attendee
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!
5 attendees
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