Founders

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Step 1: Attend an Event

To learn more about opportunities for founders to connect with and learn from others, join an online or in-person event to build new relationships, learn, and grow.


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Step 2: Join the Free Principled Business Accelerator

For founders on the journey to start your company, the Principled Business Accelerator offers a free opportunity for you to learn from experienced leaders and develop a peer network.

Apply to the Principled Business Accelerator

Step 3: Apply to the Liberty Ventures Founder Fellowship

Starting in 2025, Liberty Ventures is offering a unique opportunity for founders to become Liberty Ventures Fellows. In lieu of paying the traditional membership fee, founders who are starting their business can become LV members and gain access to connections, events, visibility, and more by becoming a fellow. More details are below


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Learn from Experienced Members

  • Yagub Rahimov, Polygraf.AI

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    From the bustling markets of Azerbaijan to the pulsing heart of America's entrepreneurship scene - join me as we pick the brain of investing prodigy and trust-building extraordinaire, Yagub Rahimov. We explore the exhilarating, addictive nature of entrepreneurship and the daunting challenge of finding purpose while riding the entrepreneurial roller-coaster. Lastly, we examine Yagub's strategic roadmap to success and the instrumental role investors play in growth, including his jaw-dropping story of rejecting a $25 million investment proposal.

  • Nancy Fechnay, Unique Ventures

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    Nancy Fechnay is an experienced entrepreneur and a Founding Partner at Unique Ventures, a venture capital (VC) firm that supports positively impactful founders and companies from Seed through Series C. In this episode we discuss:

    • Mental health and work-life balance for CEOs

    • Transitioning from startups to VC

    • What most non-profits are missing

    • Advice for new angel investors

    • The personality traits of successful entrepreneurs

  • Michael Gibson, 1517

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    Michael Gibson is a philosophy dropout, one of the initial creators of the Thiel Fellowship, and now the founder of 1517 Fund, a venture capital firm backing dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists. Michael was a founding advisor to Liberty Ventures and in this episode shares his unconventional path and approach to picking and supporting founders. Including:

    - Why Applications Aren't Good Predictors of Success in Entrepreneurship

    - Why Experience Matters More than Algorithms in Picking Winners as an Investor

    - How Being an Entrepreneur Exposes Your Greatest Weaknesses (And Transform You)

    - The Top 4 Reasons Startups Fail

Liberty Ventures Founders Fellowship

To help founders get their company off the ground, Liberty Ventures is introducing a Founders Fellowship to provide ongoing support for top founders in the network. Becoming a Liberty Ventures Founder Fellow brings Liberty Ventures in as a partner to help you scale your business.

Benefits Include:

  • Weekly introductions to partners for your business

  • Invitations to Fellow-only events with investors and seasoned entrepreneurs

  • Monthly Fellow calls to help you continue making progress on your company with LV team members and a peer cohort

  • Liberty Ventures mentor in your industry to help you grow

Cost:

  • $500 administrative fee

  • 2.5% equity in the company