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Sessions for Venture-Scale Founders

3 Available

Stage 2+

expert

How to Run Founder-Led Sales That Finds Your Channel

11

September

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom
Collin Stewart
Most early outreach stalls not because the product is wrong, but because the channel and the message were never properly tested.

For one hour, we'll work through a founder's active go-to-market push with Collin Stewart, Founder & CEO of Predictable Revenue. He bootstrapped Predictable Revenue to multimillion-dollar revenue after merging his own startup with Aaron Ross's venture.

This is about founder-led sales and finding repeatable acquisition channels, not about brand marketing or hiring a sales team you are not ready for.

What you'll work through:

• Diagnosing whether a weak channel is a targeting, message, or offer problem
• Running cheap tests on new channels before committing budget
• Structuring founder-led outreach so it produces learning, not just replies
• Knowing when a channel is proven enough to scale

If you have an acquisition channel that is not producing, bring it.

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How to Sell Your Startup - Even When It's Small

14

September

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom
Court Lorenzini
Not every company gets a banker and a process. Sometimes growth stalls, the next raise stops making sense, and the question becomes what happens now.

For one hour, we'll look at who buys small companies — customers, acquirers, individual operators — what they pay for, and how to tell what you actually have to sell. We'll also cover the paths that aren't a sale: downshifting to something you run on the side, or closing cleanly.

This session is about smaller outcomes and limited options — not banker-led M&A, venture-scale exit timing, or buy-side acquisitions.

What you'll work through:

  • What you actually have to sell - product, IP, customers, team - and what it's realistically worth
  • Who buys small companies, and what makes one worth buying
  • The paths compared: sale to a customer, acqui-hire, asset sale, lifestyle downshift, orderly close
  • Handling investors, and your own reputation, through whichever path you take

If you're weighing what's next for a company that isn't going the way you planned, join us.

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Why Isn’t AI Making Your Engineering Process 10x Faster?

18

September

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom
Prakash Sundaresan
From AI-assisted development to an AI-native software factory

Most engineering teams are already using AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and CodeRabbit. They make coding 10x faster - but the overall process of turning an idea into reliable production software often improves much less.

Why? Because writing code is only one step in the system. Requirements, design, review, testing, deployment, security, observability, and responding to production issues still depend heavily on people. Speed up one step enough, and the bottleneck simply moves somewhere else.
This session explores what it takes to rethink the entire software development process around AI - moving from isolated AI tools toward an AI-native software factory that can continuously move through:

Intent → Design → Build → Test → Deploy → Observe → Learn → Improve

The goal isn’t to remove humans. It’s to remove humans as the glue between disconnected tools and workflows, while letting founders and engineers decide where judgment, oversight, and approval add the most value.

What participants will get out of it
  • Assess where AI is — and isn’t — accelerating your development process
  • Identify the human bottlenecks preventing larger productivity gains
  • Understand what an AI-native software factory looks like in practice
  • Explore how AI agents can work across the full software lifecycle, not just coding and reviewing
  • Leave with concrete ideas for what to automate next and how

The session will combine a short framing, a live AI-native maturity assessment, practical examples and demos, and an open discussion about what participants are trying in their own companies.

I can say with confidence that I get far more value from FounderNexus than the cost of the membership, and I'm not even taking full advantage!

Steve Tout

founder, Identient

I really loved how welcoming the vibe felt from the moment I arrived.

Katrina Romatowski

founder, reSpace

It was awesome.

Edan Shahar

founder, Wild Zebra

The session was great! Highlight: Encouragement of diverse viewpoints and good founder mix.

Darian Parrish

founder, PwrOn

I think the breakout sessions are a loose but useful way to get people talking about challenges and resolutions.

Mark Fiebig

founder, Payscore

I was initially hesitant to join yet another group as there is no shortage of people claiming to help entrepreneurs, but Court Lorenzini and FounderNexus are the real deal. Any serious founder will benefit immensely from joining FounderNexus.

Jasper Kuria

co-founder, ConversionMagic

Great session, I learned a lot! Looking forward to the next one.

Shama Keskar

founder, Mudita Studios

FounderNexus fills a gap for entrepreneurs by complementing traditional incubator and early investment programs with a high-quality peer founder network.

Bob Lach

founder, Lightbridge Solutions

I also felt a sense of real community for the first time as a founder. You're all onto something special here!

Elias DeFaria

co-founder, SDF Labs

This was a fast track to relevant experience/advice in a room where you hold nothing back.

Nicole Resch

Co-founder, Imperative

I have attended sessions nationwide and joined so-called “MasterMind” groups, but nothing comes close to the network and support I have experienced at FounderNexus.

Arthur Baranovskiy

co-founder, ARY Engineering