Day One

Your co-pilot

We'll pair you with an experienced founder who's job is to have your back, make connections, and provide direction. You'll meet weekly to receive advice, perspective, and new ideas from a coach who has deep experience building startups. We act as your sparring partner, helping you to refine every aspect of your business model, identifying blindspots, and guiding you through the ambiguous early stages.

Your squad

You'll join a stage-specific group of 6-8 founders and an executive facilitator who leads and guides discussions so you learn, grow and connect. This group is your braintrust to solve problems and brainstorm ideas. You'll build deep connections and lean into each other's businesses, staying sharp while you go on the journey together.

Insights & resources

We host workshops and intimate discussions with startup experts and experienced founders every month, and you'll have access to a library of recordings from hundreds of talks covering everything a founder needs to know. Also get access to a library of perks, tools and preferred vendors to save you time and money.

Connections

Access our community of over 500 founders who are sharing advice and ideas, answering questions, and meeting up to help each other tackle what's in front of them. As we get to know you, we'll open up our network and make connections to founders, operators and investors that are relevant to you and where you are in your journey.

Here's how it all works:

Get started by submitting an application. We review applications on a rolling basis to ensure each founder is a fit, and we onboard new founders at the beginning of each month.
We start working with each founder for 3 months, during which you'll receive weekly 1:1 coaching from your co-pilot, weekly mastermind sessions, connections to mentors, operators and investors, and access to our library of resources.
After 3 months, either continue your membership on a month to month basis, or just enjoy lifetime access to the community, resources and perks as an alumni.

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$2,999 | 3 month membership

An intense four-week bootcamp-style program where you will:

Learn how to build and launch new ventures from a playbook that has launched dozens of startups and was crafted at a top-tier venture studio.
Refine and validate your idea through small group and 1:1 mentor sessions.
Cut through the ambiguity of what to focus on next, and build a personalized action plan for validating your idea and finding product-market fit.
Surround yourself with a diverse group of cross-sector entrepreneurs.
Deliver a demo-day ready 3 minute pitch in front of hundreds of others founders, operators, and mentors in the Day One community.

The Day One Fellowship is perfect for you if you:

Can attend Zoom sessions on T, W, Th at 12 pm ET and make time for additional coaching and networking sessions.
Have 5-8 hours a week on evenings and weekends to work on Day One.
Are ready to invest in building your entrepreneurial knowledge and networks.
Want to get personalized coaching from a diverse group of startup coaches

faq

Am I a fit for Day One?

Day One is designed for early-stage founders and entrepreneurs.

You might be in the idea stage, focused on talking to customers, building and testing early versions of your product, and planning how to fund your business and build your team. Or you could be in the traction or growth stages, where you have your first customers, your product is live, and you're continuously learning, building, growing, and perhaps preparing to raise capital.

You could be full time on your startup or still working a day job or freelancing - we've supported both very successfully. And you could be fully bootstrapped, or funded from angels or VCs.

Our approach to coaching and support, as well as our community, network and resources, are designed for founders in all of the scenarios above.

How much does Day One cost?

Day One costs $2,999 for the first 3 months of support, and includes lifetime access to the Day One community and resources.

We offer payment plans that spread the cost over 3 monthly payments.

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Is Day One virtual?

Yes, we’ve designed everything in Day One to be virtual. This allows us to reach entrepreneurs wherever they are in the world.

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We do love to host in person gatherings and informal events in cities where we have critical mass, and we always encourage founders in our community to meet up whenever possible.

What is the time commitment?

Each week you will have a 30 minute 1:1 with your co-pilot and a 1-hour mastermind session with your peer group of founders.

Outside of those two core sessions, we hold talks and office hour sessions with experienced founders and investors a few times each month.

To get the most out of Day One, we recommend you allocate ~2 hours per week and commit to joining the 1:1 and mastermind sessions, and allocating some time to take advantage of the connections, events and resources we make available to you.

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