How To Build The Founder’s Brand To Drive Business Success
Building a brand is critical for scaling a business and maintaining a competitive edge.
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Startup Oasis Network
Your safe haven of startup support
Why Prepare 4 VC?
Holistic Founder Focus
Our programs blend business strategy, leadership development, and wellness, so you can grow as a founder and a person.
Equity-Free Support
We provide guidance without taking equity, empowering founders to retain control of their startup’s future.
Boston Startup Ecosystem Alignment
As part of Boston's vibrant startup community, we align our goals with regional economic growth and innovation priorities.
Business Mastery
Develop the essential hard skills to grow your startup, from fundraising to operations. Master key areas like communication strategy, negotiation tactics, and audience engagement that are crucial for building and scaling your venture
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Communication & Negotiation Strategy
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Fundraising & Investor Pitching
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Audience Analysis & Market Engagement
Leadership Development
Grow into an effective leader with the tools to build and inspire high-performing teams. Learn team-building techniques, motivational strategies, and adaptive leadership styles to guide your startup through its toughest challenges.
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Team Building & Motivational Techniques
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Leadership Styles & Adaptability
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Managing Founder Stress & Burnout Prevention
Personal Growth & Founder Wellness
Your success as a founder is tied to your personal well-being. We provide wellness support to ensure you stay mentally and physically fit for the demands of entrepreneurship. Access resources on mindfulness, stress management, and building resilience
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Founder Wellness & Self-Care Techniques
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Mindfulness & Stress Management Tools
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Building Personal Resilience for Long-Term Success
Customized Roadmap for Growth
No two founder journeys are the same. With our Chart My Course tool, we provide a personalized roadmap that meets you where you are, helping you grow with targeted support. As your needs evolve, so does your roadmap, guiding you every step of the way.
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Personalized Founder Roadmap (via Chart My Course)
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Ongoing Support Tailored to Your Growth Stage
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Resources that Scale with Your Business
The Journey
Serving Founders Since
2016
The team jokes that the company started as "Jason-as-a-service" with founder Jason Kraus utilizing his venture capital and startup experience to guide emerging founders through their fundraising journey.
Cohort programs since
2020
Our major growth moment occurred when we leaned into the benefits of working with a group of ventures that can learn and grow from shared experiences together while they benefit from the advice and expertise of our team, mentors and investors interacting with them throughout the program.
Mentor Team
30+
Mentors and facilitators from a diverse set of entrepreneurial backgrounds and expertise supporting our ventures in achieving their breakthrough moments.
Investor Network
450+
Investors ranging from individual Angels and Angel Groups to principals and partners from Venture Funds connecting directly and through demo day events with our portfolio of startups.
Capital Raised by Portfolio
450M+
Startups in our cohort and consulting programs have raised more than 483M in capital to accelerate their ventures
Entrepreneurial Community
70K
Prepare 4 VC is a proud host, co-organizer and partner of startup communities like Boston New Technology and Startup Grind Boston reaching 70K entrepreneurs.
Successful innovation communities thrive because of the resilience, creativity, and know-how of Founders. Prepare4VC is an expert-led accelerant of know-how that helps early-stage businesses with world-changing ideas succeed faster, If an early-stage business is struggling with what they know or who they know, then I highly recommend they make Prepare4VC their next place to go.
Puck Fernsten
Gooru Global
The Prepare 4 VC community of entrepreneurs and experts is a vibrant Oasis of warmth, sharing, fun and learning. As a partner (specializing in cash flow evaluation), we have enjoyed and been enriched by the broad & generous knowledge of fellow experts across industries and specializations. There is always something exciting around the corner … so this is definitely the place to be!
Yvette Lim
Biz Lab
Prepare 4 VC is the place where you recuperate, reenergize and reignite the fire in your belly to keep going. The P4VC team have always had a give-first approach and they give with their network, innovation and time! They lead with empathy and have been a constant source of inspiration and motivation throughout my entrepreneurial journey.
Mariam Nusrat
Breshna
Prepare 4 VC has been valuable beyond the BootCamp experience. The team, Chris, Jason, and Steve, has been supportive over the past year since Baru's graduation from the program. They've each presented business and funding opportunities and introductions that would have never crossed my radar were they not already on the lookout for me.
Tino Go
Baru
There are few moments in the life of an entrepreneur where one looks back to see a decision that changed the course of their startup's journey, for me it was to join the Prepare4VC community. The support and encouragement that early on in an entrepreneur's life is truly the spark that's needed to power through the challenges that lay ahead.
Akhil Suresh Nair
Xena
I received great resources, knowledge and network from the Prepare 4 VC team. Coming into the program, Darshana was figuring out many things in terms of product and services. After our participation in the cohort program, we continued our relationship with partnerships. Many doors have since been opened for us.
Natalie Gil
Darshana
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