ForceFortheFuture

Establishing Best Practices with Finance4Founders

February 17th, 2010 by max | Posted in Blog | No Comments

Today Force For the Future is starting Founders First—a post startup accelerator learning program for entrepreneurs who are alumni of startup accelerators like YCombinator, Techstars, and Seedcamp.

One way to think about Founders First is like Finance4Founders or Startup2Startup but extended over a longer period of time and held virtually. We want founders to do more than be stimulated by new ideas and people, we want them to understand concepts deeply enough to apply it to their startup and have it make a big impact.

Our main goals for the program are two fold:

1) Provide the support founders need to deal with the topic at hand and accelerate their startup’s success

2) Generate generalizable rules of thumb and best practices and share it with a larger crop of entrepreneurs

Since we plan to have discussion similar to Finance4Founders, I thought why not test goal #2 now.

So I took a lot of notes and organized them around certain questions and threw it up on a wiki. I invite the other attendees to join in and make this a solid piece of referenceable knowledge on how startups can bootstrap PR.

The notes of been posted on Etherpad here: http://etherpad.com/bootstrapPR