Aspire Startup Bootcamp - Saigon Edition
Aspire Startup Bootcamp is a selective program designed for founders ready to level up fast. Through hands-on clinics, expert-led sessions, and investor access, participants gain actionable frameworks to scale. Only high-potential, growth-minded founders like YOU are accepted, space is limited and the experience is designed to be practical and intensive.
Vetted Cohort: Highly-curated attendees/selection of high-potential founders
Hands-on Clinics: No passive stages. Just workstations, templates, and expert guidance.
Investor Access: Direct lines to pre-seed and seed-stage VCs looking for "Day-One" readiness.
Leave with more than inspiration. Leave with a vetted framework for scale.
Friday, 26 June
09:00 – Registration & Breakfast Networking
Fuel up and connect with fellow founders before we kick off.09:30 – Lean Canvas: Auditing Your Path to Scale
A high-intensity workshop to "clean the canvas." Perform a brutal stock-take of your current model and receive expert mentorship to pivot toward a stronger market position.
Workshop host: Finnley Lee
Startup & VC Partnerships Lead at Aspire
https://www.linkedin.com/in/finnleyleehuiyu/10:30 – The Investor Lens — How Founders Fix Their Pitch Before They Waste an Intro
Most pitch workshops teach formatting templates. I run audits. We don't just polish slides — we stress-test your business model. Attendees will look at their own venture through the unforgiving lens of an investment committee: capital efficiency first, undeniable traction metrics second, and storytelling third.
Attendees will walk away with:A completed Investor Readiness Audit Checklist to reveal the exact traction metrics, unit economics, and data points VCs look for to understand your market opportunity.
A Pitch Deck Core Blueprint modeled after successful SEA fundraise decks, breaking down slide-by-slide what to include, how to frame your metrics, and how to psychologically handle investor rejection.
A plug-and-play Claude Investor Outreach Automation Guide containing the exact prompts and strategies to scale hyper-personalized VC outreach and settle the "to cold call or not to cold call" debate.
Workshop host: Tommy Khuong
Senior Investment Associate at Capital JDI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cong-thanh/
12:00 – Lunch Break & Networking
Welcome Speech by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - CEO, FinOS14:00 - Fireside Chat with Matthew N.
Join us for a luminating chat with Matthew who leads Growth at Locobike. In this interactive session, we will delve deep into the topic of GTM strategy and execution. Where Matthew will be sharing more about his journey and learnings from building up Locobike.
Fireside Chat Speaker: Matthew N.
VP Growth at Locobike
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-n-5525834b/15:00 – Zero to One Diagnostic — How Technical Founders Decide What to Build Before They Waste a Sprint
Most product workshops teach frameworks. I run diagnostics. We don't brainstorm — we test. Attendees will walk through their own idea using the same constraint-testing lens I use with founders: founder alignment first, validation second, build third.
Attendees will walk away with:
- A completed 1-page Problem-Hypothesis Canvas (diagnosed live during the session)
- A 30-day validatioprotocol with clear go / no-go criteria
- A personal "build vs. kill" decision filter they can use immediately
Workshop host: Trung Nguyen
Founder, ng ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ctn1991/16:30 – Pick Wrong, Fast: How to Find Your ICP by Doing Instead of Planning
Early on, action beats over-analyzing your ICP. The perfect customer profile does not exist on a whiteboard, and you cannot reason your way to it from your desk, because the answer only appears once real people react to what you're selling.In our session we will learn how to pick a good-enough ICP, run discovery sprints against it now, and let the feedback correct you. Honest data reshapes the ICP more than any planning session could.
What you’ll get from this session:
A working ICP you can start testing this week, not a perfect one you're still polishing in a month
A simple discovery sprint you can run immediately to put that ICP in front of real people
A way to log the feedback so it becomes usable data instead of a pile of notes
A few small validation hacks to apply once the feedback starts coming in
Workshop host: Duy Doan
Founder/CEO, Magnitudeminds
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duy-doan/
magnitudeminds.com
18:00 – End of event!
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