Four Sure-Fire Ways to Get Your Venture Funded

There are (only) four proven ways to get your early stage venture funded. This session walks you through each of them, when they work and why, and gives you a detailed game plan for the most important one.

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Start with People: Attracting Humans To Your Startup

Startups don't happen in a vacuum. You need people to co-build, challenge you, sell, ship, fund, and believe.

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Start with Product: Product Management for Startups in the Age of AI

Great startups are built with disciplined experimentation – not luck. This course shows founders why explicit product management can start early, before habits harden and bad assumptions get expensive.

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Startup Storytelling for Fun and Profit

Every founder is always pitching – whether they realize it or not. To investors, yes, but also to family, employees, customers, partners, and the people deciding whether to care at all. This course teaches you how to articulate your venture clearly, credibly, and consistently in every context. You'll learn how to state the problem, explain your solution, and position your product inside a story that makes sense to real humans.

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The ExperienceHack: Using Fractionals to Start Your Business

A lot of founders go it alone —-her confident they can cover the basics themselves, or simply out of options. "I'll hire talent when I raise money" is the classic catch-22: you probably won't raise money without talent to help you.

Fractional executives give early-stage startups access to senior leadership - across product, marketing, finance, or operations - without the cost or commitment of full-time hires. They bring outside perspective, pattern recognition, and accountability right when it matters most, helping shape strategy, pressure-test decisions, and keep execution on track.

This class outlines how to build a fractional leadership strategy: identifying what you need, what you can cover yourself, where to bring in help, and how to find good candidates and set them up for success.

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The Founder Checklist

Most founders walk into investor meetings knowing their idea cold and stumbling on everything else. This class fixes that. In one hour, you'll build the seven things investors actually need to see before they write a check: a 30-second elevator pitch that raises eyebrows, a deck with the right essentials in the right order, a clear business model classification, and command of the metrics that matter - MRR, CAC, LTV, churn.

You'll also learn how to talk traction when it's early, and how to tie your ask to milestones that make sense.

One session. No fluff. Free to Guild members.

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The Founder Mindset: Why It's Not as Advertised but Worthwhile Anyway

Before you build a company, you need to build your mindset. This session cuts through the hype and lore you've probably absorbed about being a founder and helps you get brutally honest about why you want to start a company.

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The Only Thing That Matters: Product Market Fit Strategy

A disciplined strategy for startups seeking product market fit. This course will take you into detail on a scientific approach to finding product-market fit for your new product or startup. You'll walk away with a concrete plan to find signal from all the noise.

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