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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!
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IP for AI Startups: How Founders Can Create a Defensible Moat
·En líneaEn líneaAI can help you build a product in days. It can't stop someone from copying it. What protects an AI startup is ownership: the IP that makes what you've built yours and hard to copy. Yet many founders quietly give up that ownership in their first months, by posting progress, demoing early, or pitching before they've protected anything. In this fireside chat, Kathryn Vatt, a former U.S. Patent Examiner who reviewed thousands of applications, shows founders where ownership leaks and how to plug it early. You'll leave knowing what to protect, when it matters, and how to build a moat investors trust. Bring your questions.
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405383/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ Featured Speaker:
- Kathryn Vatt — Former U.S. Patent Examiner; Founder of moatly™ and VATT IP Management Kathryn is a former United States Patent Examiner with nearly 30 years of experience helping innovators protect what they build. After reviewing thousands of applications inside the Patent Office — seeing which succeeded, which failed, and why — she now helps early-stage founders become pitch-ready and IP-safe before they pitch, launch, or raise. She is the founder of moatly™ and VATT IP Management, Chapter Director of the Founder Institute IP Accelerator, and author of the forthcoming "Startup IP Strategy For Dummies" (Wiley, 2027). She has been recognized as the #1 global influencer in innovation and IP law.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- Why a working AI product isn't a moat, and what actually makes one defensible
- The common ways founders give up ownership early, from posting progress to demoing MVPs
- What patent examiners really look for, and why "patent pending" isn't the protection founders assume
- How to check whether you're stepping into existing patent territory that could block your launch
- What sophisticated investors check on your IP before they write a check
- How to protect ownership early without slowing down or spending a fortune on lawyers
❯ Who Should Attend:
- AI and tech founders building or posting in public without clear IP protection
- Founders preparing to pitch at demo days, accelerators, or to investors
- Technical founders who assume their innovation is automatically protected (it isn't)
- Anyone who wants investor-ready IP without a big legal budget
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405383/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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Práctica de pitch para startups: recibe retroalimentación en vivo de mentor
·En líneaEn líneaTu pitch tiene un problema que no puedes escuchar. Lo has dicho tantas veces que ya te suena bien. Los mentores lo detectan en los primeros noventa segundos. En esta sesión, los fundadores presentan su pitch en vivo y reciben retroalimentación estructurada al instante; los demás aprenden al observar los errores de otros en lugar de cometerlos ellos mismos. Trae un pitch en cualquier etapa, incluso si todavía es solo una idea. Regístrate ahora y dilo en voz alta frente a personas que te dirán la verdad.
❯ Oradores:
- Victor Reyes (Senior Partner - Chief Innovation and Finance Officer, EDI Inteligencia Artificial)
- Guillermo Guzman (General Partner, AIDA Ventures)
- Jorge Hernan Nieto Botero (Latam Leader Founder Institute, Founder & CEO Expedit & Elevat-X)
- Luis Hernández Alburquerque (Scale Radical)
Para aprovechar al máximo este evento de Pitch for Feedback:
- Prepárate para participar en sesiones de networking por videollamada en vivo.
- Para prepararte, empieza por definir tu pitch en una sola frase.
- Completa nuestra hoja de trabajo para preparar tu elevator pitch.
❯ Lo que aprenderás:
- Cómo iniciar tu pitch para que quien te escucha entienda en una sola frase a qué te dedicas;
- Qué estructura esperan los inversionistas y en qué orden presentar cada elemento;
- Cómo hablar de tus avances y resultados (traction) si todavía no tienes ninguno;
- Cuál es el error más común en los pitches en esta etapa y cómo corregirlo;
- Cómo responder esa pregunta que esperabas que nadie te hiciera.
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❯❯ Este es un evento en línea en vivo e interactivo, así que asegúrate de confirmar tu asistencia en https://fi.co/e/407302/meetup para recibir el enlace de Zoom y acompañarnos en vivo.
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From Founder to Funded: Interactive Q&A with Brian Bell
·En líneaEn líneaNo filters. No pitch decks. Just real talk about fundraising. Join us for a candid, live Q&A where you can ask a top startup investor anything about raising capital. What do investors look for, especially in AI startups? What kills a deal? How do you get a meeting? Get the answers you've always wanted in a friendly, open environment, and walk away with the knowledge and connections to take your fundraising to the next level.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Brian Bell (Founder and Managing Partner, Team Ignite Ventures)
- Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CIO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital)
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405860/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You’ll Learn:
- What investors look for when evaluating early-stage startups
- How investors are evaluating AI startups right now
- The signals that make founders stand out to investors
- Different sources of startup funding and when to pursue them
- How to prepare your startup before approaching investors
- Common mistakes that cause founders to lose investor interest
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Idea-stage founders exploring future fundraising
- Startup teams preparing for their first funding round
- Founders building AI-powered startups who want to know what investors expect
- Professionals considering starting a venture-backed startup
- Entrepreneurs curious about how investors make decisions
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405860/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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How to Build an AI Employee That Starts Today
·En líneaEn líneaWhen 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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