01 · Offer founder support
The most useful hour you can give is a narrow one.
Open-ended offers of help tend to die in a calendar. We match against a stated problem — a term sheet to read, a supply chain to price, a market to size — so you know before you say yes exactly what is being asked.
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Mentor a founder
Matched to a founder against a specific need for a defined engagement, not an open-ended introduction. Most run a handful of sessions across a cohort.
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Lead a workshop
Teach one of the six bootcamp modules, or a session during an in-person week in New York City, Washington DC, Toronto or Berlin. Bring your own material.
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Take office hours
A block of short back-to-back sessions during an accelerator week. High volume, low commitment, and consistently the thing founders rate highest.
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Judge at graduation
Sit on the panel founders pitch to at the end of the program, and give the kind of direct feedback a first-time founder rarely gets from an investor.
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Give professional services
Incorporation, immigration, IP, accounting, banking. For a founder without a credit history or a local network, this is often the binding constraint.
