The age of AI rewards builders.
Are you one?
An async course for early-to-mid career professionals who want to stay relevant in the age of AI — whether you're building inside a company or launching your own.
$99
one-time · lifetime access
34
async video modules
7
core learning lessons

Who this is for

The internal
builder
Pitching new products or initiatives inside your company and need a founder's toolkit to get buy-in.
The aspiring
founder
Exploring a startup idea and want real frameworks from investors who back pre-seed companies.
The AI-era professional
Mid-career and want to future-proof your skills by thinking like a builder in the age of AI.

What's inside

Module 1
Orientation & founder fundamentals
Paths to building a business
Founder-market fit
Mercenary vs missionary founders
Painkiller vs vitamin products
Finding a co-founder
Module 2
Problem & customer discovery
Problem discovery → PMF
Customer discovery process
Prototyping 101
The great startup myth
Market validation
Module 3
Market sizing
TAM, SAM, SOM explained
Tops-down vs bottoms-up
Five-step sizing framework
Pain discovery
Slide examples
Module 4
Traction
Early-stage traction metrics
B2B SaaS vs consumer
Tying back to PMF
Slide examples
Module 5
Marketing & go-to-market
Go-to-market strategy
Finding early customers
Offline tactics
Customer discovery questions
Building relationships fast
Module 6
Storytelling & brand
The art of storytelling
Personal branding exercise
Brand pillars framework
Customer-centricity
Elevator pitch craft
Module 7
Pitch deck best practices
Pitch deck fundamentals
Pitching your startup
Deal assessment framework
Investor-ready storytelling

Featured speakers

Curriculum built by active Angel Squad members: investors, founders, and operators sharing the real frameworks they use.
Eric Bahn
Co-founder & General Partner

Eric is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Hustle Fund invests in software startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, backing founders who exhibit great execution and high velocity.

Heidi Luerra
Serial business builder · Exited founder · Former CEO

For 20 years, Heidi has built, bootstrapped, scaled, and exited companies across B2B SaaS, IRL experiences, arts & entertainment, and D2C retail. She launched her first venture at 11, grew a global multi-million-dollar Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company, authored an Amazon Bestselling book, and has since worked with hundreds of founders to launch, streamline, or rescue their businesses. Known as the “Marie Kondo of Small Business.”

Brian Nichols
Founder, Angel Squad · Hustle Fund

Brian leads Angel Squad at Hustle Fund, a community of 2,000+ professionals learning how to angel invest, called the “YC of Angel Investing” by TechCrunch. He started at Lyft, co-founded its employee investing syndicate ($30M+ deployed across 300+ employees), and went on to help Airbnb, Square, Pinterest, and Stripe build similar alumni investing communities. He also writes Small Bets, a weekly newsletter on startups and angel investing.

Katie Nowak
Founder & CEO, Kanvas · Principal, Altra Venture Partners

Katie is the Founder & CEO of Kanvas, a strategy firm helping startups and Fortune 500s build continuous-innovation moats. She is also Principal and Director of Investor Relations at Altra Venture Partners, a secondaries-focused growth fund with stakes in Anduril, Anthropic, Canva, CoreWeave, and Webflow. Earlier she drove strategy at Better.com through hyper-growth and consulted at Deloitte and PwC; today she mentors founders through Techstars, the Venture Mentoring Team, and Plug and Play Korea.

Nate Andorsky
Founder & CEO, ForesightIQ · Author, Decoding the Why

Nate is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of ForesightIQ, a competitive intelligence platform that surfaces the hidden signals (hiring trends, API changes, product doc updates) competitors leave behind, helping strategy and corp dev teams anticipate moves months before they hit the news. He previously bootstrapped a company onto the Inc. 5000 list and has advised startups across SaaS, fintech, and consumer tech. He invests in underrepresented founders through W Fund and Hustle Fund’s Angel Squad, and authored Decoding the Why, an Amazon best-seller on behavioral science in product design and growth.

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