Make the room useful.
LIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
2 HOURS · FOUNDERS + OPERATORS
Founder networking with a job to do
Bring one real startup problem. Work it with a professionally facilitated room using improv-style exercises. Leave with a clearer frame, several possible moves, one seven-day experiment, and five meaningful connections.
Put the headline on the desk.
Change the question.
Turn the complaint into a testable question the room can work on.
Open the field.
Generate several plausible moves before debate collapses the room around the first idea.
Ship the next move.
Choose a small action that can produce new evidence in seven days.
Networking is the by-product.
The event is designed around contribution. People connect because they have already helped each other think, challenge assumptions, generate options, or make an introduction.
real problem reframed
options generated
days to test one move
meaningful connections to make
The room has a method
Two hours. No panel. No pitch parade.
Name the problem you want the room to help you see differently.
Fast improv exercises build listening, offers, and response speed.
Founders put selected issues on the floor for structured reframing.
The room generates alternatives before evaluating them.
Each founder chooses a next move small enough to test this week.
Close with concrete asks, offers, introductions, and follow-ups.
Sample run of show; local hosts can adapt timing while preserving the core outcomes.
Who belongs in the room
Ecosystem builders
Turn “networking” into a repeatable community problem-solving ritual.
For communities →The connection model
Five connections with jobs attached.
Instead of collecting random contacts, aim to leave with a small working network around the problem you brought.
Customer
Someone who can sharpen the need.
Operator
Someone who has seen the pattern.
Skeptic
Someone who can pressure-test your assumption.
Expert
Someone who can shorten the learning curve.
Follow-up
Someone you commit to update after the experiment.
Next move
Bring a problem worth working on.
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