Tech for Startup Founders
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
💬 Level up your technical conversations, 🛠️ improve your technical know-how, and 🚀 start building products faster (with or without a CTO)
Tech for Startup Founders
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
💬 Level up your technical conversations, 🛠️ improve your technical know-how, and 🚀 start building products faster (with or without a CTO)
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Course overview
Own your startup product + tech stack on your terms 🚀
Technology is complicated.
Startup product building is hard.
It doesn't have to be.
This class is a founder masterclass in startup technology - everything you need to understand, architect, and build inspiration around your startup's product and technology. It's built for early stage founders: whether you have a CTO, developer, or no one. Whether you have a product or are starting from scratch.
🎓 Learn practical startup product building. Apply it to your startup in real time.
🤖 Learn AI-specific product building strategy and frameworks.
💬 Level up conversations with your technical team.
📚 Understand, own, and help build your startup's prototype, architecture, and tech stack.
🤝 Find, interview, and hire the best technical talent.
I will demystify technology and product building for startups. We will practically apply it to your day-to-day product building. You will level up your technical conversations with your team, your investors, your advisors, and the world.
Let's get building! 🚀
You (and your plight as a 'non-technical founder')
01
🚀 You are an passionate early stage startup founder or operator.
02
🧠 You want to pitch in and move your prototypes, tech architecture, and MVPs forward.
03
💼 You want to speak (and understand) the technical details of your product.
You (and your startup) will walk away with
Applied fundamentals of startup product building
You will become a design-thinking, product-competent, tech-minded founder - how to apply a design sprint framework, lean product methodology, and agile product building practices to your startup.
AI-first startup tech strategy and frameworks
You will learn best practices around AI-first product strategy and AI-first tech stacks
Detailed understanding of technical architecture and building a tech stack
You will understand the ecosystem of startup-specific software platforms, tools, and frameworks.
Foundational methods for prototyping and testing early products
You will see and practice how the digital sausage is made - how to design, build, and test product prototypes.
CTO-level technical team hiring and management skills
You will level up your technical management skills - how to structure technical teams, hire technical folks, and manage technical talent.
This course includes
Interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
30 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
5 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Tech for Startup Founders
Course syllabus
Week 1
🛠️ Principles of Product Building
📐 Startup Product Strategy
🤖 Startup AI Landscape
Week 2
🧱 Technical Architecture + Stacks
🏗️ Prototyping
🤖 AI Prototyping
Week 3
🚀 Product Roadmapping
🤝 Technical Hiring + Management
Week 4
Post-course
🎓 Demos + Close Out
What founders are saying
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Meet Your Founder Support Team
Chip Kennedy
Startup CTO, Product Builder, and Founder Coach
I've led technical and product teams at startups of 2 people through 200. My passion is simplifying complex technical challenges for founders and startups. Now, I coach early stage founders building mission-driven startups.
Formerly, I worked as:
- CTO at Tastemakers Africa (NYC, Seed)
- Product Advisor at Pollen (NYC, Seed)
- Head of Product and Engineering at Guaranteed Health (NYC, Seed)
I love early stage product development - helping founders (especially non-technical folks) find the tools and skills to put their ideas out in the world.
Let's get building! 🚀
Course schedule
8-10 hours per week
Live Class: Mondays and Wednesdays
8:30pm ET || 5:30pm PT
Join Chip twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays for live classroom sessions to learn together and collaborate on class exercises.
Weekly Projects
4 - 6 hours per week
Work through the modules and complete 1 - 2 weekly projects, all built to advance your startup's technology.
Live Office Hours
Wednesdays
Drop in for live office hours with Chip to get module and project questions answered + get feedback on prototype work.
Office hours every Wednesday for 2 hours before class.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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