Real answers for future co-founders.
Everything you need to know before StartDay matches your city, your skills, and your weekend table.
The Concept
What we do and why it works.
StartDay is a city-based weekend sprint for people looking for the right founder table. We match builders by city, skillset, goals, and working style, then bring them together for a structured two-day build experience.
Networking usually rewards quick pitches and shallow intros. StartDay is built around shared work: a table, a weekend, a clear flow, and enough pressure to see how people actually think and collaborate.
No. You can bring an idea, arrive with a few rough directions, or join someone else's. We use your form answers to place you at a table where your skills and goals make sense.
The Weekend
What to expect from the sprint.
We look at your city, core skill, experience, idea status, industry interests, weekend goal, and preferred team shape. The aim is balance: enough overlap to move together, enough difference to make the table useful.
The weekend moves through team formation, problem framing, idea validation, prototype planning, build checkpoints, and a final demo or decision point. It is structured, but still human and flexible.
Each city table happens in a curated cafe or workspace that fits the group size and working rhythm. The exact address is shared after your match and weekend are confirmed.
The Outcome
What you walk away with.
You leave with real collaboration data: who you worked well with, what kind of idea or problem pulled the table forward, what you built or validated, and whether the team should keep going.
No. Strong tables need engineers, product/design people, growth minds, sales and business development, operators, finance brains, and people who can drive clarity. The point is the mix.
Yes. StartDay is especially useful for people testing the founder path without making a dramatic leap first. A weekend table gives you a lower-pressure way to see how building actually feels.