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Is Founder Academy for me? Find the situation that sounds like yours. You want to start but have no idea yet. You have an idea but no clear next step. You built a project but do not know who needs it. People like it but nobody buys. Or you are starting with a friend and both of you are new to business. Different starting points. A shared reason to learn how founders think, ask questions and make decisions. Start your founder journey with Founder Academy, AIStartify’s first track. Learn, make choices and practise. Pre-registration opens soon. Follow AIStartify for the announcement. Illustrative situations, not customer testimonials. No promise of sales or business success.

Learning shouldn’t stop at listening. Think it through. Try it yourself. Pause to think. Save a useful note. Make a choice. Check your understanding along the way. Use feedback to try again with a clearer idea. That’s how we’re building Academy. Our first track: Founder Academy. Pre-registration opens soon. Follow AIStartify for the announcement.

You have a startup idea. What’s your first move? A · Pitch investors B · Talk to 5 people with that problem C · Build the MVP You have five seconds to choose. Watch for the answer. Got it right? You’re closer to being a founder than you think. Founder Academy by AIStartify is coming soon. Follow for launch updates. Music by @roa__music. Good Day — Roa Music, CC BY 3.0. https://www.free-stock-music.com/roa-music-good-day.html

Snapchat’s early team conflict became an ownership dispute. Reggie Brown worked with Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy during Snapchat’s early development. In 2013, Brown sued, asserting rights to intellectual property used by the company. The parties settled in 2014. Snap’s IPO filing disclosed a $157.5 million settlement, fully paid by the end of 2016. A settlement is not a court finding that the allegations were proven. Our takeaway: talk about ownership, responsibilities and what happens if someone leaves before conflict makes those conversations harder. This is a lesson drawn from the case, not a claim that a particular agreement would have prevented it. Once a dispute starts, it is too late to prevent that dispute. You can still respond—but learning earlier gives you more time to prepare. Learn from founders’ real experiences. Start your founder journey with Founder Academy by AIStartify. Pre-registration opens soon. Follow AIStartify for the announcement. Sources: Snap Inc. S-1, 2017, pp. F-28–F-29: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517029199/d270216ds1.htm Brown’s counsel, Cravath, 15 September 2014: https://www.cravath.com/news-insights/reggie-brown-settles-with-snapchat.html Company acknowledgment reported by Computerworld, 10 September 2014: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1375334/snapchat-settles-ownership-dispute-says-app-idea-came-from-ousted-partner.html Original conceptual illustrations, not portraits or court documents. No affiliation with Snapchat or the people involved.

Your competition might already be on someone’s laptop. A spreadsheet can be familiar and useful. Switching means moving information and changing a habit. Find where the current method fails before asking someone to replace it. The booking example here is fictional. Save this competitor check.

Would you book a room you could barely see? Early in Airbnb’s story, the founders visited hosts to take better listing photos. Joe Gebbia recounts this in his conversation with Reid Hoffman. Our takeaway: before adding another feature, find out what makes a customer hesitate. It might be missing information or a reason to trust you. Learn to spot the problem before building the solution. Founder Academy is AIStartify’s first track. Pre-registration opens soon. Follow AIStartify for the announcement. Source: Y Combinator, 6 June 2017: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/scaling-product-airbnb/ Room comparisons are original illustrations, not historical photos or measured results. No affiliation with Airbnb.

Want to start a business, but not sure where to begin? Meet AIStartify Academy. Practise real founder decisions: make a choice and learn from feedback. First track: Founder Academy. Coming soon. Follow for updates.