Company Building 101
🧠 About the Event
You don’t need a startup idea to start thinking like a founder.
Join a small cohort of 15 insanely ambitious and driven women for a two-evening, hands-on intensive designed to build founder instinct fast, without quitting your job or studies.
Across two after-work sessions, you’ll deep dive into the core building blocks of company creation: how to choose problems worth solving, identify your unfair edge, pressure-test ideas with real customers, and show up with founder-level conviction.
Whether you’re a student, builder, researcher, or deep domain expert, this workshop will help you realise how much leverage you already have, and what it actually takes to turn that into a company.
Sessions are practical, discussion-led, and run in small groups with the Entrepreneurs First team. You’ll leave with clear frameworks, sharper judgement, and a founder-first way of thinking you can apply immediately.
You must be able to attend both evenings to join.
🗓️ Agenda
Day 1
18:00 – Arrival & introductions
18:30 – 19:00 – Session 1: Why Market Selection Matters
19:00 – 19:30 – Activity 1
19:30 – 20:00 – Session 2: Edge and Ideation
20:00 – 20:30 – Activity 2
Day 2
18:00 – Arrival & introductions
18:30 – 19:00 – Session 3: Customer Development
19:00 – 19:30 – Activity 3
19:30 – 20:00 – Session 4: Personal Impact
20:00 – 20:30 – Activity 4
🧩 Workshop Sessions
Session 1: Why Market Selection Matters
Learn how to tell the difference between problems worth a decade of your life — and everything else.
Session 2: Edge and Ideation
Pressure-test what gives you a right to win, and what kinds of ideas naturally fall out of that.
Session 3: Customer Development
Get out of your head. Learn how to validate (or kill) ideas fast by speaking to the right people — and actually reaching them.
Session 4: Personal Impact
Build founder-level presence: how you communicate with customers, co-founders, and investors when it matters most.
✨ Who This Is For
This workshop is for any woman who’s thought:
“I want to build something great — but I don’t know where to start.”
“I see a big problem — how do I turn that into a company?"
You don’t need a team or an idea. What matters is that you:
Think independently
Learn fast
Have something to prove
Are curious about building
About Entrepreneurs First
EF turns exceptional individuals into funded founders. Some arrive with ideas, others don’t. What matters is potential. We back people first, then help them build companies — with a bridge to Silicon Valley. To date, EF companies are worth >$13B.