LAUNCH YOUR BUSINESS IN 12 WEEKS
THE ONLY ONLINE IDEA-TO-LAUNCH PROGRAM FOR INDIE FOUNDERS WITH NO BUSINESS BACKGROUND SEE IF YOU QUALIFYLEARN MORE 👇BECOMING AN INDIE FOUNDER DOESN’T HAVE TO BE OVERWHELMING
Here’s how most developers try to start a business in 6 steps and 15 months:
💡 Brilliant idea moment
😎 Buy the domain
🤨 12 months of coding
😓 3 months of rethinking and procrastination
😱 Launch, low traffic, no customers
😭 Crisis of confidence, eternal sadness
Here’s how Indie Founders Academy Student starts a business in 6 steps and 3 months:
💡 Brilliant idea moment
🧐 Fully understand your target customers
🕵️ Identify the solution your customers really need
✅ Verify demand, get real-world feedback
👨💻 Build a Minimum Viable Product in a few weeks
🚀 Launch, drive traffic & earn money
The choice is yours. Which path are you going to take?
Remember: all we’re offering is the truth. Nothing more.
GET THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED, SUPPORTED BY STRUCTURE, TOOLS & MENTORSHIP
Actionable curriculum
Step by step process from idea to launch. Based on startup best practices, adjusted for self-funded indie makers.
Weekly group coaching
Over 12h of content split between delivering our curriculum, analyzing case studies and Q&A.
Mentorship
Ask questions in our community 24/7. And have at least one monthly one-on-one call with your mentor.
Accountability system
Having no team is tough, but you won’t be alone anymore! A selected peer group will keep you accountable in addition to other systems and tricks that we put in place.
Indie Founders Toolbox
You’ll get a set of tools, frameworks and templates to structure your whole business and support each step of our curriculum.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR TAKEAWAYS?
YOU 2.0
Your mindset will be changed forever, empowered to move faster, have more clarity and get shit done!
YOUR FIRST BUSINESS
You’ll have your product in the market – verified to make sure there’s demand for it. And you’ll have your first customers or at least contacts to sell to.
THE PROCESSES, TOOLS & TACTICS
You’ll know the steps you need to take with each new idea in order to take it from nothing to a full product with a greater chance of success.
BUSINESS, SALES & MARKETING SKILLS
You’ll gain the critical skills which are necessary for every project to become a business – how to market it and sell it to your customers.
ACTIONABLE, FIELD-TESTED CURRICULUM
One of the hardest parts of being a solo founder is figuring out the things that you don’t know you don’t know. That’s why we broke down all the basic skills that you need into an actionable step-by-step curriculum.
This is not a n=1 “Let me teach you what worked for me” course. The curriculum is based on best practices recommended and tested hundreds of times by the most successful entrepreneurs and experts.
Week 1: Value creation
Good business ideas create value for the customers. How does value creation work and how can we approach it more systematically.
Week 2: Million dollar idea
How to generate business ideas and prioritize them to focus on the one with the highest potential for you and your customers.
Week 3: Know your customer better than she knows herself
Get into your customer’s head, understand what problems they have, what solutions they think they need and what do they really need.
Week 4: A better way to throw spaghetti at the wall
How to run quick experiments to validate your key business hypotheses and make sure you’re always moving in the right direction.
Week 5: Let’s talk business models
Business model, costs, revenue streams and financial projections; make sure everything checks out and your company will actually generate profit.
Week 6: The art & science of an MVP
How to build a functional product in the shortest amount of time and optimize it to further validate your business.
Week 7: Make it useable, not just useful
UX fundamentals and how to leverage already existing resources to “design” things without being a designer.
Week 8: Build it and they will come… NOT!
Sales and marketing fundamentals. Design a marketing funnel tailored for your target customers.
Week 9: All eyes on you
Traffic sources and content distribution channels – your marketing funnel is ready, now it’s time to get more visitors to your site.
Week 10: What gets measured gets managed
Metrics and KPIs for your marketing activities and product usage.
Week 11: Bend the space-time continuum
Techniques for solo founders to stay motivated, focus on what matters most and get more done in less time.
Week 12: The one (wo)man wolfpack
How to manage your company, live as a founder and keep maintaining and growing your business.
DATES & PRICES
“If all we needed was more information, everyone with an Internet connection would live in a mansion, have abs of steel, and be blissfully happy.”
Darren HardyTo put things in perspective, here are alternative options to start your founder journey:
Do it all on your own (study dozens of books, blogs and podcasts)
At the very least this will take you way more time. Also, different sources often confuse founders about what to do.
Attend a self-paced online course
Sadly those have very low completion rates. You stay behind or lose interest as there’s no peer group and no mentorship.
Join a full-time startup accelerator
As a solo founder you have almost no chance of getting in. They’re also expensive and/or take equity in your company.
We’re here to help you get more value, faster and at a better price.
INDIE FOUNDERS ACADEMY 3 MONTHS ONLINE PROGRAM
12 weekly group coaching sessions
Unlimited access to Indie Founders Toolbox
At least 3 one-on-one mentorship sessions
Accountability system during and after the program
Early-bird applications*
Only $375
Or 3 monthly payments of $145
Next cohort starts in winter 2018. Exact dates are yet to be announced.
*Early bird price is only valid for applications received before August 31st 23:59 PST.
30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE: If you’re not happy we’re not happy either. If you feel like you’re not getting enough value within the first 30 days of the program then you can ask for a full refund.
WHO IS GOING TO BE YOUR HOST?
Hi 👋 My name is Matic
I love to build stuff. I taught myself how to code when I was 12. It felt like magic! I remember my mom asking me one day to please stop talking about building websites for just a few moments 😁
#HumbleBrag: Over the last 7 years I’ve been obsessed with startups & education. I worked for 2 startup accelerators and mentored in 4, delivering numerous presentations and workshops, reaching several hundred entrepreneurs. I cofounded a local chapter of the Founder Institute in Switzerland; cofounded a startup community The Entrepreneurial Wave; been invited to the WebSummit conference; had a TEDx talk; got an innovation award by Education First. I cofounded a VC backed edtech startup and built a few side projects.
I recently got out of VC backed startups. While mentoring some solo founders I noticed they got a lot of value and I got a lot of joy. So I designed the Indie Founders Academy to help other indie makers on their journey.
ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU A GOOD FIT?
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Your goal is to build profitable tech products as a technical solo founder
You want to grow as an individual, learn new skills and investment in yourself
You’re ready to commit time, put in the effort and push your comfort zone
You've probably registered domains for your ideas or even worked on the projects, but never really launched
You don’t want to join a full-time accelerator program (yet) where you need to relocate and give away equity
WHO IS THIS NOT FOR?
You prefer to “throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” instead of using a more structured approach
You already have a profitable business and know exactly who are your customers & how to reach them
You just want to build a side project for fun, not to add value and generate income
You want to build a billion-dollar company, pitch to investors and raise millions in funding
You aren't open to change your way of thinking and trusting others to give you advice
QUESTIONS?
Sure, we’d love to hear from you! Shoot us an email at hello@indiefoundersacademy.com or simply start a conversation through live chat in the bottom right corner of the site 👉
Avoid costly mistakes and focus on what matters!
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