Chicago's Best Potential Female Entrepreneur to Receive a Free Course Fee with the Female Founder Fellowship Program
The Founder Institute (http://fi.co), the world’s largest startup accelerator with over 650 graduate companies, is offering the Female Founder Fellowship program in Chicago with the goal of increasing the number of local female tech entrepreneurs. The Female Founder Fellowship will be awarded to the most extraordinary female applicant to the Chicago Founder Institute, recognizing them as someone with the utmost potential to be a successful entrepreneur, and giving them the opportunity to launch a company in the world-renowned entrepreneur training program for free.
Any female who is passionate about starting a technology company can apply for the Fellowship by the Early Application Deadline on September 22nd, 2013, at http://fi.co/apply/chicago. For more information, visit http://fi.co/contents/fff.
Since launching the Female Founder Fellowship program in early 2011, the percentage of female-led graduate companies from the Founder Institute has increased 62%, to a total of 26%. In addition, the most recent Spring and Summer 2012 Graduating classes consisted of 36% female founded-companies. In all, over 150 female-led businesses have graduated from the Founder Institute, including notable companies like CakeHealth, Zirtual, Fashioning Change, Skimble, Memetales, Ecobold, Kindara, and 2RedBeans.
The Founder Institute is a part-time four-month program where existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job. The program is open to existing and prospective technology founders of all kinds - with or without an idea, young or old, and with a full-time job or unemployed.
The Chicago chapter will be led by Jason Jacobsohn and feature experienced program mentors like;
● Alex Campbell, Co-Founder, Vibes
● Ashish Rangnekar, CEO, BenchPrep
● Emerson Spartz, CEO, Spartz Media
● George Deeb, Managing Partner, Red Rocket Venture Partners
● Jason Weingarten, President, RECSOLU
● Patty Riskind, Senior Vice President, Press Ganey Associates
● Jeff Hoffman, Partner, Color Jar
● Ross Kimbarovsky, Co-Founder, crowdSPRING
● Mona Abdel-Halim, Strategic Partnership, Manager, Orbitz Worldwide
To learn more about the Founder Institute, visit http://fi.co, or attend a public event: http://fi.co/events.
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About the Founder Institute
The Founder Institute (http://fi.co) is an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network that helps entrepreneurs create meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through a part-time four month program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job. Our unique Graduate Liquidity Pool also enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each graduating class, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where new businesses can flourish. In just three years of operation, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 650 companies across 37 cities and five continents - making us the world's largest startup accelerator. Our goal is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" by launching 1,000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in over 75 cities worldwide.
