​LIMITED SPACE — Only RSVP if you can attend!

​Note: No investors are allowed (sorry 🥲) and all conversations should be considered off-the-record 🤐

​Join us at the ODF house (~10 min walk from Symposium) for an AMA with me, Julian Weisser, to learn:

• ​What VCs will not tell you

• ​Why they are actually passing on investing

• ​How to effectively fundraise

• ​How to avoid having your time wasted by investors

​+ more lessons from 1,000+ ODF startups

​I've helped hundreds of founders think through and successfully fundraise over the years while building the ODF community — I also write about it in posts like "Dealing with Investor Inbound" and "Customers understand before investors."

​After the AMA there will be time to get to know other founders in the room and meet my ODF teammates.

​Are you exploring starting a company? Looking for a co-founder? Thinking about going solo?

​ODF is the longest-running community dedicated to helping people explore starting startups with over 1,000 companies launched (view top companies of 2024) in the last 6 years. We are not an accelerator (no equity!) and are not VCs — we focus on bringing together groups of ambitious and brilliant people to explore.

​Check out our other events in Waterloo/Toronto this week:

​Wednesday (Waterloo):

• ​3pm — “Not a VC” Office Hours (this event :))

​Thursday (Waterloo)

• ​9:00am — Microgrants 101

• ​10:30am — "No VC" Founder Breakfast

• ​6:00pm — Cozy Hang & Hack Café

​Friday (Toronto)

• ​6:30pm — Late-Night Coffeeshop

​Saturday (Toronto)

• ​10:30am — Builders who Run 5k