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Founder Academy is a startup studio helping founders create innovative new companies around #marketplaces, #civictech, #govtech, #fintech

Sacramento, CA
Joined December 2015
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Join us for the 10th annual @NASA International @SpaceApps Challenge is back October 2-3! Register here for #SpaceApps #WestSacramento 🌍 2021.spaceappschallenge.org/… #hackathons #opendata #tech #space #Aerospace #sacramento #davisCA
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Calling all lovers of #hackathons, #opendata, #tech and #space: The @NASA International Space Apps Challenge is back this October 2-3! 🚀 🌍 👽 Register here for #SpaceApps #WestSacramento ➡️ 2021.spaceappschallenge.org/…
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at @DeltaHandPies we're automatically donating a percentage of each sale to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere & help scale emerging carbon removal technologies. Carbon removal is critical to counteract climate change. Eat Hand Pies, Save the World 🌏💕 stripe.com/climate
PaaS (pie as a service) 😋 Build a bakery that feeds startups who make code which starts a bakery that uses tech to make and deliver pies in an endless pie circle of pie and code based harmony. yum ☯️ 🥧
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👋 #Sacramento last call to pre-order delicious farm to fork, hand pies for free Friday delivery. Give our newest startup some love and receive a happy belly deltahandpies.com Did someone say pie?
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Introducing our 2nd product launch - Delta Hand Pies - mailchi.mp/1aade50626a6/intr…
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If you’re in the #LA area and would like to attend the first Pro Bono Tech Demo Day on Thursday grab a ticket now. They’re going fast. 👍
Just a few more days until the inaugural #probonotech demo day in DTLA! We're nearly sold out, so if you're able to join us on Thursday 11/21 make sure to get your ticket here: bit.ly/2NWCO64 #techforgood #longLA
Join our pro bono community in Los Angeles! Deadline for our fall cohort in Los Angeles is tomorrow, August 30th. - mailchi.mp/ca89c74fa7d4/pro-…
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Now accepting applications for the fall 2019 cohort. Apply by August 30th! xitter.cf/katkarimi/status/11541…
Calling all LA #tech, #design, and #data folks! Apply to the Pro Bono Tech program for opportunities to give back to your community in a meaningful, impactful way. #probonotech #LAtech #longLA #techforgood #designforgood #dataforgood
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Want to mentor, or run innovation challenges for your company, city, foundation? or sponsor a program? There are lots of ways to get involved. civicinnovationlab.la/get-in…
if you’re a nonprofit looking for tech help to take your programs to the next level apply online and get the skills and expertise of the local (hopefully global) tech community to help you solve some important issues in the world! civicinnovationlab.la/pro-bo…
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If you’re a digital professional, then check out Pro Bono Tech and apply today to use your tech, marketing, design, strategy skills to help amazing nonprofits to do their work at Internet scale civicinnovationlab.la/pro-bo… 🙏
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We’re super proud to announce that it exists and while we won’t be working on our own program after this our work goes on - were super excited that someone like Kat could take the reins and provide the necessary support and leadership to make this program so great.
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For the past 6 months we’ve been working with founder Kat Karimi at Civic Innovation Lab @CivicInnLab to rebrand and build out a new set of online tools to enable a massive #TechForGood program in #LA & the #CivicTech program Pro Bono Tech is live! civicinnovationlab.la
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We built a thing to let people check in for meetings and now it’s a product you can use too. Help us beta test, signup up for early access 👇👇👇👇 producthunt.com/upcoming/che…
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. — Clay Shirky
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The two most important qualities in a founder are self-awareness and a growth mindset. Self-awareness = knowing what you need to improve Growth mindset = you can improve anything
✊ beginners need good mentors to keep them on track and operating their way out of, and around, common mistakes... otherwise you can spend a decade + losing
"In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." - Erik Falkenstein
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Optimize your startup for product market fit / revenue is always the best option. build things of value first, that people happily pay for, then *maybe* explore VC - but it’s not generally the first “best” opinion.
100% agree with this article, & have voiced this opinion my whole career. The vast majority of entrepreneurs should NOT take venture capital. Why? Article nails it: it is a binary "swing for the fences" exercise. Bootstrapping more likely to lead to individual financial success.