Musa Labs 🚀 Foundations Live: Idea → MVP → Funding — Build It and Learn to Raise
Everyone's teaching vibe coding. Nobody's teaching it with an investor in the room.
This is a two-hour, hands-on session with two halves that belong together: in the first, you build a working MVP from your idea using AI tools and spec-driven development. In the second, the investor who would evaluate that MVP shows you exactly what makes it fundable — because building it and raising for it are the same story, told to two audiences.
HOUR ONE — BUILD IT:
The spec-first method: turn your idea into instructions AI can actually build from — natural language to working product, the skill that outlasts every tool
Live build with modern AI tooling (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) — no coding experience required; if you can describe it clearly, you can build it
The production mindset from minute one: what separates an MVP users can touch from a demo that falls apart
HOUR TWO — MAKE IT FUNDABLE:
How investors actually screen: the four gates every pitch hits in the first thirty seconds, taught by someone who runs them daily
The two tests that separate a fundable product from a feature — run them on the MVP you just built, live
Clean paper and first-conversation basics: what serious founders get right about caps, instruments, and the first pricing conversation
Your GTM one-pager: the minimum story that gets a second meeting
What you leave with: a working MVP and the spec that built it · the investor screen scorecard to run on yourself · the session recording and all materials · live Q&A on your specific idea — build questions and raise questions both welcome.
Who this is for: solo founders, lean teams, operators, and creators with an idea and no dev team — and no VC network yet. You don't need to be technical. You need to want to build and the honesty to hear what makes it fundable.
Who's teaching: Allen Smith — Founder & Managing Partner at Musa Capital, an active pre-seed and seed investor, and builder of Musa Labs, a 16,000+ person technical operator community. Allen has run AI hackathons with Microsoft across the country. Stanford → NFL → Microsoft → now writing checks and teaching builders how to earn them. Most vibe-coding instructors teach you to build. This one also decides what gets funded.
The fine print:
Live online · 2 hours · recording included, but the live build and the live investor lens are the point
Capped room to keep Q&A real
$75. If cost is a barrier, email allen@musa.capital — that's never the reason someone misses this.
Want to go deeper on the build side? This pairs with our six-week course, Agentic AI Systems in Production. Want it built for your company instead? That's the other thing we do — details at the end