Founder Institute

The #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. FI portfolio companies have raised $1.9B+ 💸 #FIworldwide

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If you can describe a product clearly, you can now build it.

That wasn't true two years ago. AI changed it.

You can go from an idea to a working product, used by real customers, in ten days. By yourself, no code.

That's what Vibecode a Product Bootcamp is built around, and 294+ founders have already been through it. Live sessions walking you through scoping, building, refining, and launching with AI, until you've got something shipped and in users' hands.

Designed for people doing this alongside a full-time job.

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Read Jonathan Greechan's full breakdown of the Great Reinvention: https://t.co/m6vuv8eist

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A year ago, building software meant learning to code or paying a developer five figures. Now you describe what you want in plain English and have a working prototype the same afternoon.

That's not the only thing that flipped. Market research that needed a consultant takes minutes. The company that needed a co-founder and real capital needs one person who knows the space. A full tech stack that cost a fortune runs for a few thousand a year.

No co-founder, no degree, no investor's blessing required. As @jonnystartup puts it in his Great Reinvention essay, building the product is no longer the bottleneck.

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Stop spending months "thinking about" your startup idea. This free tool gets you to a validated one in a single sitting.

It walks you through 7 AI prompts you can copy straight into ChatGPT or Claude. Map your strengths, find real customer pain points, generate concepts, design a validation test, and get a customer interview script.

No login. Just open it and start.

Try it here: https://t.co/3guqGmLp2X

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A company or trend you admire + a market or problem you care about = your next startup idea

We built a free AI tool that finds those combinations for you

Try it: https://t.co/mXZG17mXdx

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You've been thinking about that idea long enough. Time to find out if it's real.

The Startup Ideation Bootcamp is a 2-week program where you'll brainstorm ideas, validate them with real customers, and pitch to 30+ experienced mentors and investors.

By the end, you'll know whether to go all-in or move on. That beats another year of wondering.

Apply here: https://t.co/ir3f4xg5eI

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Aonic (FI Penang) secured $10M in Series A funding led by Kairous Capital to scale its end-to-end drone solutions for agriculture and industrial sectors globally.

The company designs and manufactures its own drones and software in-house, and has grown at triple-digit CAGR since 2022.

Congratulations to the Aonic team on the milestone!

Read more: https://t.co/RW6mmmEQgv

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Busy and productive are not the same thing.

We built a free 3-minute quiz that scores you across 6 areas and tells you exactly where you're leaking time and which AI tools will fix it.

12 questions. 4 levels: Reactive, Developing, Systematic, Elite.

You get a personalized score, a category breakdown, and an AI-generated analysis of your biggest bottleneck.

Find out where you stand: https://t.co/JqPyzNPAcy

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AI is not complicated. You just need to know how to set it up right.

The Open Claw AI Productivity Bootcamp:

→ Set up a 24/7 AI assistant for research, writing, and workflows
→ Build a real app with no code
→ 5 live sessions, March 10–19

Led by @adeoressi, 10X entrepreneur & investor. Presented by @govclab.

Apply → https://t.co/JUf5kfxWMw

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Thinking about our hustle.

How we're easily overwhelmed by the build, the marketing, selling, while worrying about social media, AI, taxes, funding, and regulation.

Try something with me.

Our future is shaped by founders ❤️

Business owners who deliver what we need and create jobs in our community.

Startup entrepreneurs working to change things for the better.

The founders of ourselves and our families.

Whether for work, a new venture, or our lives, we hustle too much.

Take a moment today and go through this. By yourself or with a team.

Take a break from the hustle and the incessant tips, advice, blog posts, and podcasts telling you what needs to be done.

I asked Daniyal Ashraf to turn an idea into an opportunity, and in thinking about what Founder Institute does for people, take 5 minutes with this.

Stop pitching. Stop selling. Stop pushing.

1. Why do you do what you do that is economically inevitable?

2. Who are you? Warts and all.

3. Why now? What does the future hold? Think about timing.

4. Consider Where - where you live, why there, and where you work.

5. Only then, explain What it is and How it works for you and for others.

Instead of pushing what you think matters, find your gaps, weaknesses, and where you need help. Then tell that story and ask for it.

We put this infographic together to help. Print it. Share it.

Often the path to success is not in what we can but what we can't.

We're all founders. What helps is knowing how we need help 🙏

If feeling ready, share your story. Connect with @founding to help others, to learn, or think. Reach out to me, I want to help, and I need help.

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200+ founders have already taken part in the Startup Ideation Bootcamp, and it's back for another round.

In just 5 weeks, you'll create, validate, and pitch your startup idea with expert mentors, real customers, and AI tools.

Great ideas aren't born. They're built.

Apply now → https://t.co/NmVLAOYeRp

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The Early Bird deadline for the next Vibe Coding Startup Bootcamp is this Sunday, Feb 8th.

We've been adding new perks to the next cohort based on feedback, including more AMA and mentoring sessions, partnerships with Lovable and Replit for free and discounted access, and a brand new Vibe Product Demo Day where top projects get showcased to potential collaborators and investors.

Due to high demand, pricing goes up on Monday and we're capping enrollment to keep the experience personalized.

If you've been thinking about it, now's the time: https://t.co/5IvrbhTaTe

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Beyond being a founder, Evan is one of the highest-rated mentors across Founder Institute Australia & New Zealand. He always goes out of his way to help the next generation of entrepreneurs in the region.

Congratulations to the Checkbox team!

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AI is completely transforming the global legal industry.

Hitachi now partially or fully-automates 83% of their routine legal and compliance requests through AI, thanks to Checkbox.

@CheckboxAI (FI Australia-NZ) just raised $23M to scale their "AI Legal Front Door" platform to capture, manage, and automate legal work.

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Evan Wong, Co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, bootstrapped the company for years.

Now with backing from Touring Capital, Peak XV Partners, Conductive Ventures, Tidal Ventures, Five V Capital, and angel investors including Jerry Ting, Checkbox is at the forefront of AI's transformation of the legal industry.

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You don't need to learn to code. You need to learn to build.

Here are 5 tools to turn your idea into a product:

Replit — Build apps in your browser using AI. No setup needed.
Claude — Learn concepts, get answers, and delegate coding tasks in plain English.
Supabase — Your app's database, user logins, and file storage in one place.
Stripe — Accept payments, subscriptions, and invoices.
n8n — Automate workflows between your apps and tools.

Ready to bring your idea to life? Join our Vibe Coding Bootcamp: https://t.co/QVv4rB0yUO

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You don't need a technical team to build your first product anymore.

The Vibe Coding Startup Bootcamp takes you through a structured step-by-step process to scope, build, and test a prototype of your startup idea. No coding necessary.

In 2 weeks, you'll:

→ Set up your AI "system" of tools, integrations, and automations
→ Use AI and No-Code tools to launch a first product to test your business hypothesis
→ Start testing your product with customers to get feedback and clarity on your next iterations
→ Avoid the most costly and time-consuming mistakes for AI product development

6 live online sessions with hands-on AI tool demos and real-time expert guidance.

Apply now: https://t.co/S2kiiSu6Mi

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Applications close tomorrow.

The Startup Co-Founder Bootcamp helps you find and "test-drive" your co-founder relationship.

✅ Meet potential co-founders with complementary skills and shared values
✅ Build a compatibility score to improve co-founder matching success
✅ Reduce the risk of choosing the wrong co-founder
✅ Discover your unique Entrepreneur DNA and strengths

Apply now 👉 https://t.co/bcCuBrf5Yt