If you…

• Have a background in software development
• Have an interest in building your own company

…then you are a tech founder.

If you are a tech founder living in or near Nashville, Tennessee (our current area of focus) then this is the community for you.

The goal of this community is to encourage and enable engineers to leverage their technical and domain expertise to build a thriving business. We do this by connecting interested folks in local networks with peers, mentors, advisors, and maybe even capital.

What do you mean by “founder”?

For the purposes of this group, “founder” refers to anyone participating in the earliest stages of creating a company. It could mean an indie hacker, solopreneur, or technical co-founder.

Importantly, this group is not focused on founders of a specific type of company. Whether you’re building a software-as-a-service business or a pure service offering (e.g., coaching and consulting), we’re here for it. Of course, different types of businesses often require different strategies, so we imagine a constellation of subgroups to support specific pursuits.

What this group is not for: marketing and selling your product or services to group members.

How does it work, who owns it?

No one owns it. Tech Founder Community is modeled after OpenCoffee Club in that it is an open concept with a very informal, loose structure.

What’s in it for me?

The way we hope to support tech founders is through:

• In-person meetups
• Peer encouragement and advice
• Advice from veteran founders
• A collection of recommended resources
• Discussion panels, guest speakers, etc.

Interested?

As of January 2024, Tech Founder Community is very much an experiment. It is currently spearheaded by Brian Dailey and is only available in Nashville, Tennessee.

Great! If you this sounds like a group you’d be interested in, take a look at the Membership page.