Founder Institute Report - Insights from 15K+ founders & 4000+ alumni across 180 cities
Insights from 15K+ founders and 4000+ alumni across 180 cities.
Comprehensive Startup Pitch Deck Guide - Step by step guide to pitch your startup in various formats
A startup founder’s ultimate success is dependent on others buying into his or her vision. This guide brings you a structured process to build several different kinds of pitches: Elevator Pitch, One-Minute Pitch, a Simple Pitch Deck, and Long Pitch Deck.
VC Firm Investment Thesis Worksheet - Simple fill-in-the-blank template for creating a VC thesis
In order to build a strong venture capital firm as a first-time fund manager, you need to create a strong Investment Thesis that clearly states your fund size, stage, focus, and geography. To help you get started, here is a simple fill-in-the-blank template.
5-Minute Investor Update Template - Improve your investor updates
Since 2009, we have seen thousands of investor updates - great updates, terrible updates, and the most common: no updates at all. This frustrates us to no end, because writing an outstanding update is simple. To help, we created this simple 5-Minute template.
VC Lab - Accelerator for new managers to launch venture funds
VC Lab (http://fi.co/vc), by the Founder Institute, is a free virtual program that helps new managers to launch accelerators, pre-seed, seed or Series A venture capital firms globally. The goal is to help you complete your first closing in one year or less.
VC Lab Pre-Curriculum (VC Accelerator) - First steps to starting a venture capital firm
VC Lab is a new accelerator for VC firms, and in this step-by-step guide we show you how to complete the first major step in building a new fund: creating your investment thesis. This includes determining your VC (1) fund size, (2) focus, (3) UVP, and more.
Entrepreneur DNA Assessment - Be Your Best Entrepreneur
Unlock your Entrepreneur DNA. Collaborating with scientists, we analyzed scores of successful founders. FI’s 30-min personality test will give you instant insights on how to maximize strengths, minimize weaknesses, and compare against 175K founders globally.
Black American Startup Resource List - 700+ helpful resources for Black American entrepreneurs
According to CB Insights, only 1% of VC-backed tech companies are founded by Black Americans. To help empower Black Americans to build great startups, we have collected a list of over 700 organizations, entrepreneurs, and investors ready to help.
Founder Institute v5 - Supercharge your startup with FI's upgraded curriculum
Launch, grow, and scale like never before with Founder Institute's most significant curriculum update yet. Take advantage of AI-powered tools, feedback at scale, and specialized tracks.
A Pledge for Responsible Innovation - A simple definition and KPIs for measuring impact businesses
Today our society faces unprecedented challenges. We are calling upon members of the innovation community to commit to build impact companies, with a simple definition of an "impact company" and actionable/ measurable iKPIs (Impact Key Performance Indicators")