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Future Founders Training

Kicking off 2022 with world class training for Future Founders, the Founders Forum will be leading a course and mentoring program for Future Founders from January 2022. Led by the Entrepreneur in Residence OpenUK’s Founders Forum is a group of UK based Founders, former founders, potential founders and senior business people experienced in businesses based on Open Technology who wish to support the founding and scaling of the UK’s Open Technology based businesses. The recordings

  • 21 January – Session 1 – Why found an Open Source Business?
  • 28 January – Session 2 – Open Source Product Market Fit / Developing a Product
  • 4 February – Session 3 – Corporate Structure, licensing and IP for Open Tech Businesses
  • 25 February – Session 4 – Sales in Open Source Businesses
  • 4 March – Session 5 – Revenue Generation and Models
  • 11 March – Session 6 – Raising and Runway in Open Tech Businesses
  • 1 April – Session 7 – Community and DevRel in Open Tech
  • 13 May – Session 8 – People, Hiring and Scaling

Recordings have been made available for anyone who could not join.

Watch the Future Founders Training Session Videos

Session 1: Introductory Session: Why found an Open Source Business?

Session 2:

Product Development

Session 3: Corporate Structure, Licensing and IP
for Open Tech Businesses

Session 4:

Sales in Open Source Businesses

Session 5:

Revenue Generation and Models

Session 6: Raising and Runway in Open Tech Businesses

Session 7: Community and DevRel in Open Tech

Session 8: People, Hiring and Scaling

Founders Forum Mentoring

OpenUK Founders Forum mentoring will be offered to a small group of UK based individuals. Interested Founders or potential Founders will be selected from applications received and matched with mentees with our team for one to one mentoring sessions and to offer support for the evolution of an ever stronger UK Open Technology business ecosystem.

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Speakers - Future Founders Training

Adrian Colyer
Venture Partner, Accel Partners
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Alexis Richardson
CEO, Weaveworks
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Alison Dowdney
Head of Student Outreach, OpenUK
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Andrew Katz
Consultant, Bristows LLP and CEO, Orcro Limited
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Chris Eastham
Chief Legal Officer
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Dawn Foster
Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project
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Dominique Top
Solutions Architect at GitLab
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Fiona Nielsen
Founder, DNAdigest and Repositive
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Henry Nash
CTO Developer Advocacy, Hybrid Cloud at IBM
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Justin Cormack
CTO, Docker
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Laura Czajkowski
Head of Community, DragonflyDB
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Leanne Kemp
Chief Sustainability Officer
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Lee Wright
Regional Director, Confluent, Inc
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Liz Rice
Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
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Lorna Mitchell
VP of Developer Experience, Redocly
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Matt Barker
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Matthew Yonkovit
Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS), Percona
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Murielle Brenon
Head of People Business Partnering, EMEA at Confluent
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Paul Holt
Vice President, Jetstack Secure
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Rochelle Farmer
General Counsel
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Sam Weaver
CEO, Plural Labs
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Tom Wilkie
VP Technology, Grafana Labs
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Victor Tuson Palau
CTO, Ebury
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Meet the Entrepreneur in Residence and read his Report

 

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Matt Barker
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Meet the Founders Forum Leaders


Alexis Richardson
CEO, Weaveworks
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Fiona Nielsen
Founder, DNAdigest and Repositive
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Henry Nash
CTO Developer Advocacy, Hybrid Cloud at IBM
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Justin Cormack
CTO, Docker
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Liz Rice
Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
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