Founder School
A five-week crash course for startup founders.
You wouldn’t fly a plane without going to flight school. Why would you start a company without Founder School?
ABOUT US
WHAT IS FOUNDER SCHOOL?
A five-week crash course about being an entrepreneur.
Fresh from the front lines of today’s startup environment.
HARD-WON LESSONS
Real knowledge from twenty-five years of experience from a seasoned founder.
PRACTICAL
SKILLS
Real-world techniques for your founder journey – from AI to the latest in online marketing.
INSIDER
TIPS
Learn what the startup world isn’t telling you and what investors and advisors don’t want you to know.
ONE-ON-ONE COACHING
Get access to real-world founders and startup executives with recent
hands-on skills
Most startups fail. Because founders don’t know the basics.
Without any better options, most entrepreneurs fend for themselves. Making unnecessary mistakes over and over again.
THE PROGRAM
FIVE SESSIONS. ALL THE ESSENTIALS.
WEEK 1
HEADSPACE
Get to the essence of why you want to start a company, what to expect, and how to go into it with eyes open.
WEEK 2
PEOPLE
How to attract and align people to a vision and how to think of entrepreneurship as a team sport.
WEEK 3
PRODUCT-MARKET FIT
What product-market
fit is, why it’s so important, and how to pursue it
with discipline.
WEEK 4
PITCHING
How to tell your story and win fans, investors, and customers to your cause so you get the results you need.
WEEK 5
FUNDRAISING
How to put all the pieces together and secure the resources to build the company of your dreams.
How do you learn how to be a founder?
- Business school?
Expensive, time-consuming, out-of-date. - Inspirational biographies?
Laughable. - Self-help books?
Inadequate. - Mentors?
Hard to find and often unreliable. - Make it up as you go along?
Yep. Most do. And 90% fail.
TANGIBLE BENEFITS. TANGIBLE RESULTS.
- Convenient evening schedule
- Virtual classes
- Cohort learning with other founders
- Guest speakers and experts
- Customized one-pager for your venture
- Customized positioning and fundraising deck
- Customized product-market fit plan
- Digital materials to help tell your story
Personalized coaching from a 25-year startup veteran
Learn to avoid rookie mistakes.
Startups are hard. There will be plenty of challenges. Why not spend your precious time and energy avoiding the known pitfalls and concentrating on what’s really important?
Ideas are easy. Execution is hard.
If you’ve got a great idea but are smart enough to know that an idea is not enough, Founder School is for you.
FOUNDER STORIES
ENTREPRENEURS MATTER
Each Founder’s journey is different. Here are a few.
THOMAS THIRY
An active founder with a thriving startup in the entertainment ticketing industry, thomas started at Babson college and launched his venture in both the united States and Europe within six months.
PAULA CONSTANCE
A published author, producer, and disney Imagineer, Paula’s vision was to explore her passion for ECOLOGICALLY FRIENDLY ventures. The result was an event business offering inspiring content to hybrid and remote workforces.
JULIA NEWELL
A lifelong advocate for people with hearing loss, Julia is building a next-generation venture breaking new ground marrying accessibility with Artificial intelligence.
GET STARTED
Learn the basics
before taking the risk.
Would you fly a plane without
a few hours of flight school?