Participating in the Founder Space Program was a valuable experience for our company as well as myself. I truly appreciate the help from Captain Steve Hoffman, Naomi Kokubo, Steve Austin and all other speakers.

From the 2 weeks program, I learned about the essential values of the start-up and how to apply them to our case. It was also a great opportunity to improve my pitch deck with the training of Steve Austin and all advices from the experienced mentors.

Once again, thanks to all Founders Space members, the mentors, and all the VCs and angel investors participated to the event.

Founders Space is not what you would expect from the average accelerator program. Instead of coddling you, telling you how great your company is, and giving you overly basic and optimistic overviews of starting a company, the FS Program breaks your business down to its very core with classes designed to test and provoke you. The program is by no means easy and forces you to face the reality that your idea and business plan are not as perfect as you think they are. But this reality check is exactly what startup founders need.

You need to learn to be critical of your business at every turn. You need to learn to look past your great invention and focus on REAL customer needs. You need to learn how to talk to and gain valuable information from customers, investors, and potential partners. You need to learn to “GET TO THE POINT”. You need Founders Space.

This program is so much more than one to two weeks of courses culminating in a pitch event. The classes are highly focused and informative. Captain Hoff, Naomi Kokubo, Steve Austin and all the other mentors truly want to see you succeed. And you will learn even more from the other startup founders. New ideas, possibilities, and partnerships will present themselves when you least expect them. I would highly recommend the program to any startup founder ready to take their business to the next level. Read More...

I am glad I joined the 2-week program at Founders Space. This awesome place provides greatest class for startups, and I especially enjoyed the mentor Steve Austin’s class.

He trained us and improved our pitch to higher level. He shared his abundant sales experiences in America and other countries. He let me know the key value of operating a company in just 2 weeks.

I also enjoyed the communication with many great entrepreneurs from different countries. Learning and teaching from each other and grew together. Read More...

Over the last six years, I have been involved in many entrepreneurial training programs in Silicon Valley, USA.
For the most part, a similar pattern of education was far from realistic and took too much time.

But Founders Space’s enthusiastic mentors and realistic lectures gave us a lot of enthusiasm and joy.

It was always a dark night at the end of the training, but it burned up a passion as hot as it returned to high school. Read More...

“Excellent Startup Program and great fun!”

It was great participating in Founders Space’s accelerator program. Captain Steve Hoffman, Naomi Kokubo, and Steve Austin — they all helped develop an easy to understand IR pitch deck in the manner and methodologies perfected throughout the program. I would highly recommend their take to get up-to-date on the latest, best learning available.

I really appreciated the insight that was provided. Steve Austin’s training style was impressive and fantastic. He is clearly an expert at global accelerator program at Silicon Valley, and especially, Naomi is the best trainer and a serial entrepreneur. Many ideas that were said during 2 weeks program were very logical and straightforward but until then I haven’t considered them as so important. Finally I got shock, and it was big bang for me after I finished my final pitch deck on podium. She reminded me. Read More...