The Founder Institute was started by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi, who wanted to improve the rate of start-up success by providing high-potential entrepreneurs with "expert training, critical objective feedback, and peer support in the early stages of building a company."
How does that differ from other accelerator and incubator programs? According to New York chapter Co-Director Gabe Zichermann, Founder Institute--living up to its name--is "less about launching companies than launching founders."
Participants meet for 16 weeks with different sets of mentors. Each session has a theme, such as marketing, funding, or operations. And within that framework, the founders and future founders get off-the-record insights and "no BS" feedback from entrepreneurs like themselves.
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