The best way to transform yourself from employee to successful entrepreneur
FounderDojo was rated the #1 startup training program in the world by UP Global
What do you do?
We help educated professionals go from employees to successful entrepreneurs so they can become more resilient, self-reliant and financially independent by teaching them how to turn their idea into a profitable business.
How Do You Do It?
There is only one way to learn how to be an entrepreneur
Build a startup from scratch!
We teach you how to get traction with Customers and build a successful startup
You will learn by doing and transform yourself in the process
Think like an entrepreneur
We teach you how to think like an entrepreneur. This empowers you to find a great business model to turn your idea into an awesome business.
Business Model Validation Course
The Business Model Validation Course teaches a proven, step-by-step process for finding product-market fit and a scalable, repeatable business model for your startup.
Feel like an entrepreneur
We teach you how to feel like an entrepreneur by tapping into your deeper, strongly-held beliefs and remove the ones that don’t belong to you.
Resilience Psychology Course
The Resilience Psychology Course teaches how to align your thoughts, beliefs, emotions and actions so you can create your successful startup effortlessly.
Act like an entrepreneur
We teach you a process for separating what is essential and what is noise so you can focus on what matters.
Live Group Zoom Support
We help you apply the principles taught in our courses into practice for your specific startup idea. This is where you get valuable, hands-on support to help guide you to success.
What Are The Benefits?
Improve Your Odds Of Startup Success
FounderDojo courses and live mentor support teach you a proven method for finding product-market fit (PMF) and a scalable, repeatable business model for your startup. Founders who have applied this method have improved their odds of startup success when compared with Founders who didn’t participate in the program or joined a startup accelerator.
In an internal cohort study, Founders that participated in FounderDojo achieved a 83% startup success rate. Startups were considered successful if they generated an exit or were profitable and still running 10 years after the conclusion of the program. Compared to leading accelerators, FounderDojo’s success rate was 11x to 207x higher. Case study
Get Traction With Customers
FounderDojo teaches you how to determine exactly what problem you are solving and who the early adopters are. You will learn how to build an MVP and how to get your first Customers. Once you’ve found product-market fit, you will learn how to develop a repeatable process for acquiring Customers and achieving profitability.
Transform Yourself Into A Successful Entrepreneur
Building a startup from scratch is a high-risk, high-reward activity. 90%+ of startups fail. While there are many reasons for startup failure, the most salient reason is that the founders didn’t have the necessary skills and experience to make their business work.
FounderDojo courses and live support are a transformational, experiential learning program. Founders learn the principles and apply them to your specific startup situation. What you learn will change how you think, what you do and who you are.
Your Instructor
Hi. I’m David. I’m so glad you are here!
I started my career working for big companies. I was successful but I never really felt at home in the corporate hierarchy. I kept moving to smaller and smaller companies and I eventually figured out I should be doing my own thing.
I struggled transitioning from a corporate environment with a lot of resources to a business I started in my house with just $5K. I quickly figured out that a startup is NOT a smaller version of a big company. It’s fundamentally different.
Now I’m a successful entrepreneur and I can’t imaging doing anything else. I’ve created eight startups so far. I’m running a startup studio that is building 150 startups using a proven method for finding product-market fit, the same process we teach in this course. I’ve been through the transition from employee to entrepreneur and I’m living a more fulfilling life. Now I teach others how to build successful startups from scratch so they can follow their passion and create the life they want.
- David Linhardt, Founder, About Me
Why Are You Teaching Others?
The Founders and mentors at FounderDojo are experienced, serial entrepreneurs. We’ve learned a lot through our many startup successes and failures. We wish to share what we’ve learned with other entrepreneurs who are starting their journey so they can fail less and succeed more.
Hear What Students Are Saying
The video below highlights feedback we received from students that took our course and participated in live mentor support.
“FounderDojo helps you block out the noise. It helps you focus on what really matters to make your startup successful.”
Valentin Saportas, Founder & CEO, Mortgage Hippo
“I owe 100% of my success to FounderDojo. Whatever else you are thinking about doing, stop and signup for the Basic Training course. It will save years of your life.”
Jamie Johnson, Founder & CEO, Verde
“FouderDojo taught me how to listen to Customers. Now I know how to get insight from Customers and use it to improve my business.”
Sheila Guo, Founder & CEO, Peckish
FounderDojo Transformational Course:
A Trusted Guide To Help You Transform Yourself Into A Successful Entrepreneur
The entrepreneur’s journey is a perilous one. There are many challenges and many pitfalls. Not everyone will make it. Starting a business from scratch is perhaps the most difficult of all business challenges. If you find success or failure, the path is transformative.
FounderDojo is your trusted guide. We know where the pitfalls are and how to get around and through them. We can teach you the skills you need to go from an idea to a successful startup. If you bring the heart, we can teach you the skills. Together, we improve the odds of startup success.
Included Modules In The FounderDojo Transformational Course & Mentor Program
FAQs
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The course is for founders that are actively working on a startup idea.
Examples include founders that haven’t found product-market fit, haven’t figured out how to scale or what their business model should be or haven’t achieved repeatable growth or profitability. The course is great for founders that are stuck or are in the struggle. Also, founders that haven’t raised the money they need are a great fit. This course is also great for “rejects” or founders that have been turned down by investors, accelerators and venture funds. We love “rejects” and consider them to be the underdogs and the true heroes of any startup ecosystem.
The courses and live mentor support help founders get insights from Customers, make their business models more clear and generate more traction with Customers. -
The course is self-paced. Lessons include a validation principle, and example of how I’ve applied the principle in one of my startups, and an exercise for you to complete with your startup. The pace is up to you. Students who are working on the course full-time can typically complete the validation process in six to 12 months. However, the startup process is highly unpredictable so your timing may vary.
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Once you signup for the course and pay the tuition, we will provide you with access to a website that contains all of the course content and the community features where you can interact with the instructor and other community members. In addition, we will provide you with access to the live zoom calls where you can ask the instructor questions about your specific situation. The live zoom calls are included at no charge during the ramp up period and can be continued for an additional fee if you wish to continue to access this feature.
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No. FounderDojo courses have a tuition fee but participation does not require equity. Keep your equity. It might be worth millions or billions someday!
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Yes, we offer a 14-day money back guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, you can request a refund and we will return the tuition fee to you.
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Yes if you have a validated business model that is interesting to investors. Once you’ve validated your business model with data from Customers, we can help you meet investors and our fundraising partners.
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No problem. Feel free to send us a message and we will get back to you shortly. Go to https://founderdojo.com/about and tap on the Contact Us button.
Signup Today & Start Your Transformational Journey
Transformational Course With Live Support
$5K one time
Learn all the skills you need to transform yourself into a successful entrepreneur. Course includes ideation, Customer discovery, product-market fit, paths to Customers, company building, live support for six months and a lifetime membership to FounderDojo.
1-On-1 Founder Coaching
$5K to $10K/mo
There is nothing quite like being a startup Founder. Our coaches are multiple-startup entrepreneurs. They’ve been through it all and can help guide you through the entrepreneurial journey so you can flourish and grow in your venture and in life. Founder Coaching is live, 1-on-1 coaching, personalized to your needs.
Guidance By Founders For Founders
Take The First Step
FREE
Signup for our email newsletter and FREE live Q&A sessions over zoom! Utilize the community for help and guidance while getting advice from experienced entrepreneurs. This service is free.
Paths To Customers
$799
Learn how to build scalable, repeatable paths to Customers. This skill is helpful after you’ve found product-market fit and are ready to grow and scale your business. Product-market fit course is a pre-requisite. Includes two months of live group support.
Customer Discovery Workshop
$799
Learn how to talk to Customers and design experiments to get the insights you need to validate the problem you are solving and who you are solving it for. Includes two months of live group support.
Company Building
$799
Once you’ve found and validated a scalable, repeatable business model for your startup, it’s time to shift into execution mode to turn your invention into a big business that rocks! Learn how to build the infrastructure and repeatable processes to go big! Includes two months of live group support.
Resilience Psychology
$799
This is a breakthrough course that teaches you how to cultivate a resilient mindset in order to thrive during the ups and downs of the startup journey. A must have for every entrepreneur. There is no pre-requisite for this course. Includes two months of live group support.
Product-Market Fit (PMF)
$799
Learn how to develop solutions to your Customers’ problem and how to validate if you’ve achieved product-market fit. Customer Discovery is a pre-requisite. Includes three months free of live group support.
Founder Coaching
$5K to $10K/ mo
There is nothing quite like being a startup Founder. Our coaches are multiple-startup entrepreneurs. They’ve been through it all and can help guide you through the entrepreneurial journey so you can flourish and grow in your venture and in life. Founder Coaching is live, 1-on-1 coaching, personalized to your needs.