Startup Wise Guys is looking for experienced professionals who want to explore entrepreneurship, meet complementary co-founders and start building a scalable B2B company through The Founders Club.
This opportunity is particularly relevant for consultants, former consultants, operators, product leaders and senior professionals looking for a more entrepreneurial and creative next chapter.
You don’t need to leave your current job. Founders Club is a 12-week, part-time and fully online venture-building experience, designed to let you test entrepreneurship before making a major career transition.
Tasks
During the programme, you will:
* Identify and validate relevant B2B problems and opportunities.
* Meet potential co-founders and build a complementary founding team.
* Run customer discovery and test market demand.
* Define your business model and go-to-market strategy.
* Build and test an MVP or proof of concept.
* Develop the foundations of a scalable, investable startup.
* Work with founders, mentors and investors from the Startup Wise Guys ecosystem.
You can join with an existing idea or startup, but you don’t need to have one yet.
Requirements
We are particularly interested in professionals with 7+ years of experience in:
* Management consulting or strategy
* Business development and sales
* Product and technology
* Operations
* Finance
* Marketing and growth
* Industry-specific roles
You should be interested in entrepreneurship, comfortable solving ambiguous problems, and able to bring meaningful expertise to a potential founding team.
An MBA or MSc can be valuable, but practical experience and execution matter more.
Benefits
Over 12 weeks, you will enter the broader Startup Wise Guys ecosystem, including:
* 480+ startups invested in
* 600+ mentors and experts
* Founders operating across 40+ countries
* 20+ portfolio exits
* Around 70% portfolio survival rate
* Direct access to potential co-founders, experienced entrepreneurs and early-stage investors
* A structured way to explore entrepreneurship without making an immediate all-or-nothing career move
The strongest teams emerging from Founders Club may later become relevant for Startup Wise Guys’ acceleration and investment activities, subject to a separate assessment.
Selected candidates will receive further information about the programme structure, participation requirements and next steps before making any commitment.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional experience
- Experience in management consulting or strategy, business development and sales, product and technology, operations, finance, marketing and growth, or an industry-specific role
- Interest in entrepreneurship
- Ability to solve ambiguous problems
- Meaningful expertise to contribute to a potential founding team
- MBA or MSc
What We Do
Startup Wise Guys has been at the birth of the European startup accelerator scene, we’ve been investing in startups and accelerating them for more than a decade now. In other words — well, we know our s**t, and we aren’t afraid to do the hard work, which is finding high potential startup founders probably even before they themselves know what they are capable of! The startups that keep listening to their customers are the ones that succeed. We aim to practice the same — constantly evolving, innovating our programs to fit the fast-paced founder journey and embracing the feedback. Over time we have changed our focus from B2C to B2B, and now to various specialized verticals (more to come). However, we keep the human touch in high value too — be it from on-site sessions during accelerator program to our local gatherings with startups, mentors and investors across various continents. Guess our founders calling us “the accelerator with a heart” has a reason. Building a company from the ground up is no walk in the park — we know that firsthand. That is why we put the founders first and are rooting for them to make their dreams and companies big. Sounds fun, sounds passionate, sounds crazy, we are in!
