[StartupOasis / Founders] 🚀 The 10-Step Journey: #2 - Customer Discovery

We’re continuing our ongoing Startup Oasis / Founders Community series: 🚀 The 10-Step Founder Journey (Zero → Seed Stage) — designed to guide early-stage founders from idea to funding with clarity, confidence, and community.

In this second session, we’re diving into Customer Discovery — the critical process of identifying your target users and validating that the problem you’re solving is real, urgent, and worth building for. Before you build anything, learn how to talk to humans, test assumptions, and uncover insights that will shape your product and business.

What to Expect:
🔍 Define Your Early Adopters – Get crystal clear on who your users are, where to find them, and how to reach out without sounding salesy.
🧨 Validate the Problem, Not the Idea – Learn how to confirm whether the pain point is real, recurring, and painful enough to justify a solution.
🧠 Master Customer Interviews – Frameworks, real scripts, and pro tips to get honest answers—not just polite feedback.
🚫 Avoid Common Mistakes – Sidestep false positives, leading questions, and other traps that derail early-stage founders.
🤝 Live Practice + Group Feedback – Share your discovery scripts or current blockers and get peer and mentor input in real time.

🎙️ Speakers
- Dan Marques – A serial entrepreneur, community builder, and executive coach with 16 startups under his belt. From France to Spain to the U.S., Dan has held roles from CEO to CTO and thrives at the intersection of innovation and execution.
- Ivan Suhinin – An AI and fintech veteran who’s worked with Tesla, Adyen, and early-stage startups alike. Ivan specializes in startup “firefighting,” turning chaos into clarity. From engineering teams to investor decks, he’s done it all—and lived to tell the tale.

🍕 Vibes: Laid-back, high-value, and founder-first

Whether you’re just toying with an idea or deep in the grind, this event will help you zoom out, reconnect with your “why,” and step into your founder role with purpose.

🔗 RSVP now and help us launch this founder-powered journey—together.