Turn Your Uni Break into Startup Traction: A Workshop for Ambitious Founders

​Facebook and Microsoft were started during their winter uni breaks – what are you doing with yours? If you're an ambitious founder who has recently begun building a startup, or you're even just thinking about an idea, join us for a night to set you up for success over the holidays.

​NextGen Ventures and Boab AI are teaming up to bring you a sharp 90-minute session that skips the fluff and hits the parts of building that actually matter: talking to users, setting goals, and building fast.

​We’ll kick off with a fireside chat with Tom van der Linden, founder of Modus AI, a rapidly growing AI startup with over 25,000 users. He’s still a student, going through the Melbourne Accelerator Program, and he’s figured out how to turn early experiments into real traction.

​Then we’ll move into small founder breakout groups to work on activities focused on the traits the best young founders have - customer obsession, ambition, and speed:

• ​Customer experiments – pressure-test your riskiest assumptions

• ​Interview tactics – sharpen your questions to get real insights from customers

• ​Moving with speed – set real goals, then find ways to cut your timeline in half

​This is not a lecture. You’ll be talking, building, learning, and getting challenged by other ambitious founders like you. There are only 40 spots available, and we usually sell out, get in quick!

​🫴 If you think you’re too busy with exams, come anyway, don’t spend your holidays regretting while others are building.

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​Generation AI
Thanks to Boab AI, you can win $1000 just by showing up and applying what you learn. They’re running Generation AI, an AI pre-accelerator, and if you complete the program after attending this event, you're in the running. Apps close on the 25th.

​NextGen Ventures
After successfully raising >$2m for our first fund, NextGen Ventures is actively investing in young, ambitious founders — often as the first cheque in. If you're building something bold (no matter how early), fill out this short form to get on our radar — we typically invest around ~$70K. We've made several investments already, including Fluency, maybe you're next.