Eight weeks from wanting to having built.
Two sessions a week for eight weeks. You leave with a venture that exists and the proof that you built it.
Two tracks. One is you.
Venture Sessions work on the output. Founder Sessions work on the input. You need both to build something you can stand behind.
Monday is about the venture. Eight sessions take a problem to a working thing with users, then to the systems, brand, and money that keep it alive.
- 01Problem
- 02Validation
- 03Build!
- 04Systems 2
- 05Feedback
- 06Brand
- 07The Fun Stuff
- 08Just Getting Started
Saturday is about you. Discussion, exercises, cases, and reflection on the judgment, discipline, and self-knowledge that building asks for.
- 01Why
- 02Authenticity
- 03Resolve
- 04Systems 1
- 05Story
- 06People
- 07Growth
- 08Reflection
You will want to quit around week four.
Everyone does. That is the week the first version is out and the first people have told you what is wrong with it. We tell you now so that when it comes, you know it is the program working and not you failing.
Launch Cafe
You meet the cohort and the facilitators before anyone teaches you anything.
Problem
You pick a problem from your own life and go find out whether other people have it.
Build
You ship, put it in front of users every week, and meet your mentor once you know what to ask.
Demo Day
You show what you built and who uses it, to the people who can help you keep going.
You do not need a technical cofounder anymore.
AI gives one founder more leverage than ever before. You use it to research, build, test, and operate faster than a team could five years ago. The judgment behind every decision stays yours.
Someone who has done it picks up when you call.
Babson founders a few years out, in the space you want to build in. One thirty-minute call a week and a text back when you need one.
Meet them →If it would help, ask.
Funding
A shared pool for expenses that move your venture forward.
Tools
Software, credits, space, infrastructure, and materials.
Access
Introductions to programs, experts, partners, alumni, and opportunities when they help.
Resources are provided based on what your work requires, not as a fixed package. If something would materially help, ask for it.
- A venture that exists.
- Proof you built it.
- Better judgment.
- A mentor who knows your name.
- Nine founders who watched you do it.