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Future Founders Academy

A weekend bootcamp designed to give first-time founders the practical knowledge and hands-on experience to launch their business.

For first-time founders

Whether you’ve just launched your first startup or if you’re dreaming of breaking out of your 9-5 to test an idea, the Future Founder Academy is ready for you. This structured, intensive and short weekend course is packed with learnings and practical knowledge to give you the confidence to launch your business on the right foundations and save you years of learning the hard way.

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The programme

Future Founder Academy is a weekend intensive programme, giving you the fundamentals to launch your startup. You’ll cover everything from how to articulate your vision and get buy-in from investors to how to validate your idea and understand product-market fit. The weekend covers a deep dive into brand building and early messaging, and the roadmap to your first 100 paying customers. Finally, you'll prep to grow a team, with leadership and culture fundamentals.

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The teachers

Drawing on decades of innovation and startup-sector experience, our own Leadership Team step into the virtual classroom; leading each workshop with real-world case studies and exercises on how they’ve scaled businesses, led teams, raised capital, built brands, pivoted and achieved reach with structured resources. Learn from leaders who have grown businesses from startup to exit, launched high-growth brands and expanded into new markets.

Key details

We’re currently building our 2022 programme and will be releasing dates soon. Price: £240 (inc. VAT) per student | £180 (inc. VAT) for Huckletree members.

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Who's it for?

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    For early-stage businesses

    With a focus on the fundamentals, Future Founder Academy is ideal for founding teams or leaders to refine the business they have today, including testing their commercial model or repositioning their brand strategy.

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    For one-day-soon founders

    Dreaming of an idea but haven’t taken the leap? We run the Academy on weekends to help ambitious minds learn after hours and get a head start without running into the work week.

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    For founders ready to launch

    We help founders with an existing product fine tune their operations, line up the dominoes for launch and grow their business rapidly while avoiding wasting resources.

You'll graduate with...

An ambitious peer group

across a global and ambitious cohort of students

Founder lessons

on new hires, culture, leadership and scaling

The tools and structure

to start, run and build your own successful start up

Reviews are in

"I am a graduate of Stanford and have attended the YC online startup school, and I must say this programme matches up with the best in the industry. The most beneficial element for me was the hands-on, personalised advice and 1-1 support"

Mahira Kalim, Founder & CEO, SPRUCE

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