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 entrepreneur training and startup launch program 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 her as someone with the utmost potential to be a successful entrepreneur, and giving her 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 July 27, 2014, 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%. Over 300 female-led businesses have graduated from the Founder Institute, including notable companies like CakeHealth, Zirtual, Fashioning Change, Realty Mogul, 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:
● 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
● Jeff Judge, Co-Founder, Signal
● Seyi Fabode, Co-Founder, Power2Switch
● Kelly Fitzsimmons, Co-Founder, HarQen
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 the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program 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 five years of operation, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1,100 companies across 60+ cities and five continents.
