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Draper University teaches founders to fail before investors pay for it
Tim Draper built a school around an awkward lesson: a promising idea can survive a bad pitch, but it cannot survive indifference. In San Mateo, residential training now sits beside blockchain accelerators with cash, equity terms and a deadline.
49 educação teaches founders to spend less on being wrong
After a million-dollar startup failure, Leandro Piazza built a school around execution. Now 49 educação sells the machinery of entrepreneurship to founders and the institutions trying to help them.
Focus Academy gives good science a local address
A lab bench can prove a technology works. Focus Academy helps international founders work out who will buy it, what evidence they need, and where to build their business.
Indonesia Wants 1,000 Startups. First, Find a Customer.
Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital turns the big business of nation-building into smaller assignments: find a team, test a problem, make a sale. Its free training network reaches well beyond Jakarta.
SmartUp Academy Wants Your First Customer Before Your Finished Product
ZoomInfo co-founder Yonatan Stern teaches entrepreneurs to sell early, spend carefully and build for profit. At SmartUp Academy, the classroom can lead to a lasting co-founder partnership.
Founders Foundation’s bet: build startups where the customers already are
In Bielefeld, a nonprofit backed by Bertelsmann Stiftung teaches founders to sell to Germany’s industrial heartland. Its wager runs on patient funding, practical education and a refusal to take startup equity.
LaStartupStation wants your startup to land a purchase order
In Casablanca, Mehdi Alaoui’s accelerator brings young companies into the orbit of corporate buyers. Its next test: helping Moroccan education startups reach learners who are too often left out.