Invest in your business. When you join Founder Academy you save time, money, and peace of mind.

Benefit from six-weeks of hands-on, work-integrated learning with free digital tools. Build your business as you learn. And develop a tailored go-t0-market strategy with the guidance of experienced pros.

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Reduce Your Risk

Save money and time by figuring fewer things out the hard way on your own

Accomplish More, Faster

Get essential tools and learn to use them from an experienced industry professionals

Get to Market More Reliably

Help your clients avoid failure and stabilize during the most critical stage their growth

Akash's Story

Akash was a student of Adam's who participated in a work-integrated learning program that helped him compliment the hard skills he'd already gained as a self-taught developer with strategy-first business skills that catalyzed his professional growth!

Today, Akash runs his own digital marketing agency where he leads a small team of specialists. Listen to him speak in his own words what it was like to upskill with Founder Academy's Adam McNeill.

What do Founder Academy participants learn? Here are just a few of the hands-on knowledge and tool-based learning modules we offer...

Value Proposition & Branding

Develop an understanding of what makes your brand unique. Learn how to communicate this to your customers.

Competitive Auditing

Understand your competitors. What advantages they have? What weaknesses can you use to your advantage?

Customer Journey Mapping

Understand your prospects' problems and how they are trying to solve them. Make it easy for them to become your customers.

Understanding Strategy

What are your goals for growing your business? Develop powerful strategic thinking that will inform every effort you make in determining what works best.

Effective Copywriting

Quality writing is the common thread that connects everything you do as a business owner. Resonate with your prospects at every stage of their journey.

PPC Advertising

Learn how to use our ad reporting dashboard to better manage your ads, see what's working, and make data-driven decisions that optimize your ad spend.

Email Campaign Building

From prospect nurturing, to customer onboarding, to asking for high-value referrals, build email automations that grow your customers as you sleep .

Multi-Channel Marketing

Figure out where your customers are, both online and in the real world. Identify what they need in order to trust your business and deliver it on any channel.

Design Thinking for Websites

Build a website that establishes authority, speaks to your prospects' needs, and works to convert them into loyal, paying customers.

Online Reputation Management

When you get an online review it's critical to respond right away. We'll teach you how to use our tools for this and will coach you on your response strategy.

CRM

Every customer touchpoint is critical to your customer experience. Kris will ensure that you get the most out of your CRM tools as your business grows.

Sales Funnel Building

Kris will help you use practical tools to help you develop a clear understanding of how your prospects are interacting with your brand and sales process.

Innovation & Prototype Testing

Startups must innovate and know what sets them apart from the competition, among other things. Adam has helped many of them scale and grow.

Professional Communication

Kris is an expert communicator and will not only coach you on your approach here, but will show you how to use the tools we offer to convert your prospects.

Presentation Skills

Adam and Kris have taught subjects like marketing, leadership, branding, and strategy at colleges, universities, and learning NFPs.

Are you ready to invest in your startup?

Avoid joining the ranks of startups who fail in their first year due to skills gaps, tools, and the knowledge to use those tools effectively.

Gain access to mentors who are also digital growth professionals with years of experience helping founders get their ideas successfully off the ground. Join Founder Academy today.

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