Announcing the new Community Membership for first time / emerging Founders

Helping you to improve your chances of success as an early stage Founder

Today, we announce the new Community Membership from Canopy that provides a special access point for new, first time and emerging Founders. This membership will launch on 10 July at the next Demo Night event in London.

Before July 10, early adopters can gain access at a special 50% discount using THIS LINK

Note: there is a 50 Founder limit to the early adopter sign ups

From 10th July sign ups will be possible at THIS LINK where both monthly and annual membership options are available.

Members who join the program get access to the following

• A peer group of Founders who are going through similar challenges

• Monthly challenge, related to the first two years of developing an idea. For example “share your pitch deck and get peer feedback from other Founders in the group”

• Monthly knowledge transfer from a member of the In Residence team. For example “How to build your MVP on zero budget”.

• Monthly live coaching call with a member of the In Residence team. Bringing together the challenge and knowledge transfer sessions and also providing an opportunity for an open discussion around questions and answers on any topic related to your startup.

This program has been designed for startup Founders, and has a lot of technical input from our CTO in Residence. It is also relevant for Founders of social enterprise and Non profits, who go through similar challenges in the first two years.

It is particularly relevant for Founders who are doing something impactful and of meaning with their startup or spin out company.

Unique needs

When building the program, the In Residence team has put together a series of knowledge transfers and coaching frameworks based on the unique needs of Founders in the first two years of a startup. These are the highest failure years and where Founders typically benefit the most from support around things they are doing for the first time. This includes things like

• Business planning and writing business plans

• Building and testing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

• Raising early stage funding (and grants)

• Recognising the most persistent reasons that Founders fail in the first two years, and mitigating them in your own journey.

There is a different, targeted, topic each month. Recordings from each month are then available to members as an on demand library which grows over the lifetime of the program.

Additionally, built into the approach for each month is the live coaching call which can cover any number of topics & the knowledge transfer schedule can be reprioritised depending on the pressing need of the members in the program.

The program will be delivered in English, and has components that are asynchronous as well as live, enabling Founders from all over the world to participate on their own terms, at timings that suit their own lifestyles and priorities.

Early adopter discount

Ahead of the July 10 launch, early adopters to the program can benefit from a 50% discount on the first year of membership. This is limited to 50 places, using THIS LINK. These memberships are also month by month, and can be cancelled at any time.

After 10 July the membership will be offered on either a monthly or annual basis, with the annual membership fee providing 12 months for the price of 10.

What we wished we’d known

We look forward to welcoming you to this program and hope that as a first time Founder it helps you to improve your journey and the outcomes you secure.

Members of the In Residence team who are contributing to this have started, built, grown and sold companies in the past and we bring you the lessons we have gained from our experience, and the lessons we wished we had access to when we started.

What are you waiting for? We’re here for you. Let’s go! #Forca