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 Turn Your Industry Expertise Into an AI Startup
·OnlineOnlineAfter years in one industry, you know problems that outsiders never see: the workarounds, the manual steps, the things everyone complains about and nobody fixes. That knowledge is the hardest part of a startup to copy. This is a hands-on workshop. You will name one problem from your own industry, check whether AI makes it solvable now, and leave with a short list of people to talk to next week to test it. Register now and bring one problem you have seen for years.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to list the problems in your industry that people already pay to work around
- How to judge whether AI makes one of them solvable today
- Why domain experts have an edge over technical founders in the first months
- How to write the problem in one sentence a customer would agree with
- Who to talk to next week to test it, and what to ask them
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with 5 or more years in one industry
- Domain experts who have spotted a problem but never started a company
- People without a technical background or a co-founder
- Employees thinking about building something of their own
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406072/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
14 attendees
How to Build an AI Startup
·OnlineOnlineYou have years of experience in your industry and a problem you keep noticing, but you have never built a company. What usually stops people is the order: what to do first, what can wait, and what to skip.
This session has two parts: Kais Neffati, a graduate of our Austria-France Fall 2025 cohort, shares what he learned building Hyvop: how he picked the problem, what he tested first, and how he found his first users. Kasia Sadowska shows the AI tools founders use for early-stage validation, so you can test your idea before you build anything. Register now and leave with your next three steps.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How a founder turned years of industry experience into a startup
- Which AI tools to use to test an idea before building
- How to check whether a problem is worth solving
- How to find and talk to your first users
- How to fit all of this around a full-time job
❯ Featured Speakers:
- Kais Neffati - Founder @ Hyvop: Software and cloud architect, previously at JCDecaux, VINCI Autoroutes and Ingenico. He is building Hyvop, an AI agent in Slack and Microsoft Teams that finds the owners of unused cloud resources, gets their approval and applies the fix.
- Kasia Sadowska - Director @ Founder Institute Austria: AI product developer with over 10 years of experience building and leading tech startups across Europe. Mechanical engineer by background, she has co-founded ventures in mobility, compliance, edtech and sustainability. She helps founders build and validate products with AI and no-code tools.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with years of industry experience who have never built a company
- Employees with an idea they have not acted on yet
- Aspiring founders without a technical background
- Anyone who wants a clear sequence for starting an AI startup
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406101/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
5 attendees
Past events
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