Build Your Startup in 4 Days: The AI VC Bootcamp

Chris Haroun

VC investor, Goldman Sachs, Columbia MBA

AI collapsed three months of incubator work into four days. Here's how.

You have an idea. Maybe you have had it for years. What you do not have is the plan, the model, the pitch and the confidence to put it in front of an investor, a bank or your first customer. That used to take an incubator three months. AI changed the math. In four live Saturdays together, you will finish what most founders never start: a complete 13-section business plan, a 3-year financial model you actually understand, a 10-slide investor deck, and a three minute pitch you deliver live at Demo Day. I sat on the investor side of the table: MBA in finance from Columbia, Goldman Sachs, then venture capital with board seats. On two deals, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A and I led the Series B, and my venture investments included Palantir and Facebook. I have raised and managed over $1 billion in my career. This bootcamp hands you that investor playbook in four days instead of three months. You bring the idea. AI and I will handle the heavy lifting. AI drafts. You decide.

What you’ll learn

Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a business plan, a live financial model, an investor deck and a pitch delivered at Demo Day.

  • All 13 steps of the plan drafted with AI in class and approved by you

  • Assembled automatically from your 13-Step Plan Builder spreadsheet, yours to keep

  • Change one assumption and watch your whole P&L update in real time

  • Know your burn rate and runway cold, with a stress test at half your growth

  • Build the deck slide by slide, 15 words max per slide, with a real demo moment

  • Deliver your 3-minute pitch live at Demo Day with feedback from Chris

  • The chrisharounbusinessplan skill interviews you, runs every exercise and reads your Plan Builder sheet live

  • 13 Idea Banks with 10 researched ideas per question, plus the completed Shark VR sample as your answer key

  • LLC vs Delaware C-Corp, patents, trademarks, 4-year vesting and IP assignment

  • Walk into a startup lawyer's office prepared instead of billable

  • The 8 term sheet terms that matter and the red flags that eat unprepared founders

  • Keep the 13-Step Plan Builder and AI skill for every company you ever start

Learn directly from Chris

Chris Haroun

Chris Haroun

Executive Coach | Former Goldman Sachs & Accenture | Columbia MBA | 2M+ Students

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Who this course is for

  • The employee with an idea: you want a rigorous, fast way to find out if it's real, before you quit anything

  • The side hustler ready to go legit: you need the plan, the entity, the model and the pitch to level up

  • The first-time founder about to raise: no weak deck, no fuzzy numbers, no term sheet you don't understand

What's included

Chris Haroun

Live sessions

Learn directly from Chris Haroun in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

The 13-Step Plan Builder and AI skill

Both are yours forever, for this company and every one after it.

Demo Day

Pitch your company live on Day 4 and get direct feedback from Chris.

The 13 Idea Banks

10 researched ideas for every one of the 67 questions, with real examples from Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, Nvidia, Tesla and more.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Nov 7—Nov 8

    Day 1 (Sat Nov 7): Foundation. Your Idea, Validated (Steps 1-4)

    • Nov

      7

      Day 1: Foundation (Steps 1 to 4)

      Sat 11/76:00 PM—8:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Nov 9—Nov 15

    Day 2 (Sat Nov 14): Product, Market, Competition and Go-to-Market (Steps 5-9)

    • Nov

      14

      Day 2: Product, Market, Competition and Go-to-Market (Steps 5-9)

      Sat 11/146:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)

    Nov

    9

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Mon 11/98:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Nov

    10

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Tue 11/108:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Nov

    11

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Wed 11/118:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Nov

    12

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Thu 11/129:30 PM—10:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Nov

    13

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Fri 11/138:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Nov

    14

    Optional: Daily Office Hours

    Sat 11/144:30 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Schedule

Live sessions

3-5 hrs / week

Four live Saturday sessions at 10:00 AM Pacific: November 7, 14, 21, and Demo Day on December 5. Between Saturdays you apply that day's steps to your own startup, with the skill doing the typing. There are daily optional office hours during the program every day. Every session is recorded, and the recordings and materials are yours for life.

    • Sat, Nov 7

      6:00 PM—8:30 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Nov 9

      8:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Nov 10

      8:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

2 hrs / week

One project: your startup. Each week you fill the next steps of your 13-Step Plan Builder with the skill's help, and I review your progress live.

Async content

3 hrs / week

Recordings of every session the same day, plus the Idea Banks, plus daily optional office hours.

Frequently asked questions

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Private cohort

Run a cohort for your org

A dedicated cohort with a custom schedule and curriculum, tailored to your team.

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$999

USD

Nov 7—Dec 5
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