The Friday Club
We Are The Friday Club
Your Startup Community
About Us
Working Together for a Better Future
Founded on the notion that entrepreneurs crave time outside the day to day grind, and want to work the issues and add polish to their businesses at the time of the week when they are least under deadline pressure, we formed The Friday Club. A supportive place where we share, support each other, connect and solve issues without pressure..
When you join The Friday Club, you’ll become a lifelong member of a community of mentors, entrepreneurs and industry experts. With an exceptional track record and a deep understanding of the technology ecosystem, our goal is to find and empower talented founders and put them on the global stage.
We don't charge entrepreneurs upfront to work with us. We will only take a fee (or equity) if you're confident that we can prove our long term value and want to deepen your connection. Your venture won't be diluted.
The Friday Club supports female founders and work tirelessly to create an ecosystem where gender inequality is a distant memory. We're tired of the rhetoric and seeing brilliant founders pushed aside because of their gender.
What we offer
Cohort Program
Our Cohort Accelerator Program is ideal for companies at any stage looking to test their theories and vision, qualify feasibility and global viability, and develop their business alongside professionals who have done it time and time again. We know that you're too busy running a new business to soak up all your time in an 'accelerator'. With just a few hours per week face time over 13 weeks, we cut to the chase and tackle the important stuff with brute force.
Female Founders Program
Female founders are still underrepresented, and poorly supported. We're doing our part to fix that. Our programs are designed to be highly inclusive, and our Female Founders network, offers support, guidance ands networking opportunities to help overcome the specific challenges facing female entrepreneurs.
AgeTech and HealthTech Innovation Programs
Friday Club tackle most kinds of innovation, but we're especially good at AgeTech and HealthTech - with our deep local and global connections. We believe that solving the needs of older people (55+) are a huge untapped opportunity, and we see that in HealthTech Australia has great innovations but lags well behind our global competitors at commercializing new technologies. .
How we're different
Great ideas don’t have a birthright - we need to breathe the life into them.
Founders who have landed on great ideas need a first class commercialization pathway and fuel to grow. Traction. Customers. Revenue. They need to be a great business, not just a great idea. And for women, we need to build an ecosystem designed from the ground up to overcome the challenges of bias they otherwise face.
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
Everyone starting out in a new venture believes in their idea, yet only a small number succeed. Why? Founder blindness. We go hard on cutting through the crap to get to the truth. Are you solving a big enough problem for people to care? Is it investable? Can you breathe life into the idea and make it work? What's the go-to-market and customer acquisition strategy?
GROWTH MAPPING
Great products are one thing, great businesses are something else entirely. Understanding the economics of your proposition and measuring it's value are critical to attracting customers and investors. We show you how to do that in a way that will make your stakeholders (and investors) sit up and take notice. More often than not, we can also get you in front of potential buyers, investors and strategic partners too.
STORY TELLING
The pathway to revenue is fraught with challenges, but the pathway to ongoing growth takes a whole new level of proof before people will line up to support you. Our expertise in growth planning will help illustrate the way forward, the milestones you need to reach and increase your odds of success.
Meet the Team
Melbourne based but globally connected, our Team have all been highly involved in creating, leading, financing, scaling and mentoring businesses spanning three continents.
We have also created, Directed and been heavily involved as investors, Board members or strategic advisors to scale ups or led a business through a successful exit.
All of us have at least 20 years experience (to put it kindly) as senior business leaders.
