KinTech™ Founder Series: Build With Me
Build Your MVP in 6 Months
From Idea to Launch: Self-Directed Learning with Live Sessions, Scripts & Community Support for Motivated Founders
Why KinTech™ Founder Series: Build With Me?
A comprehensive, hands-on program designed for aspiring founders who are ready to stop planning and start building.
Build Your MVP
Go from idea to working prototype in 6 months with hands-on coding sessions and expert guidance.
Validate Your Idea
Learn customer development, market validation, and how to test your assumptions before investing years.
Community Learning
Join a supportive community of founders with 1-2 live sessions monthly and peer support between sessions.
Self-Directed Learning
Production-ready scripts, templates, and a baseline GitHub project with step-by-step issues guide you through building between live sessions.
Technical Skills
Learn modern development tools, cloud deployment, and how to build scalable applications without a technical co-founder.
Business Fundamentals
Master business entity setup, legal foundations, infrastructure planning, and the operational fundamentals of launching a startup.
What Makes Us Different
🏗️ Build-First Approach +
This isn't a lecture series or a collection of pre-recorded videos. Between monthly live sessions, you'll make tangible progress on your product through self-directed work. You'll write code, design interfaces, talk to customers, and ship features. By the end, you'll have a real, launched product—not just a slide deck.
👥 Community Learning Model +
You'll join a small cohort of fellow founders (15-20 people) with 1-2 live sessions per month. Between sessions, you'll have access to production-ready scripts, templates, and a private community where peers support each other. This creates accountability and a supportive environment without requiring constant instructor availability.
⚖️ Technical & Business Balance +
Most programs focus on either the technical side (how to code) or the business side (how to market). We teach both. You'll learn modern development practices, cloud deployment, AND customer validation, pricing strategies, and go-to-market execution.
✅ Validation Before Building +
We spend the first month validating your idea with real customers before you write a single line of code. This ensures you're building something people actually want, saving you months of wasted effort.
📝 Scripts, Templates & Automation +
We provide production-ready scripts for VS Code setup, GitHub workflows, deployment automation, and more. You'll also get access to example GitHub repositories with structured issues that guide you through building your MVP step-by-step.
Who Is This Program For?
✓ This Program Is Designed For:
- • Aspiring founders who have an idea but don't know where to start
- • Corporate professionals looking to transition into entrepreneurship
- • Technical folks who can code but struggle with product validation and marketing
- • Non-technical founders who want to build their MVP without hiring developers
- • Serial entrepreneurs looking for a structured approach to their next venture
✗ This Program Is NOT For:
- • People looking for a "get rich quick" scheme (building takes work)
- • Those who aren't willing to commit 10-15 hours per week
- • Founders who already have a fully-built, launched product
About KinTech™ Founder Series: Build With Me
KinTech™ Founder Series: Build With Me was created to bridge the gap between wanting to start a company and actually launching one. Too many aspiring founders get paralyzed by perfectionism, never shipping their product.
Our program is built on a simple philosophy: the best way to learn is by building. Over 6 months, you'll go from idea to launched product with a structured curriculum, hands-on support, and a community of fellow founders who understand the journey.
We're part of the KinTech™ family of products, dedicated to creating pathways for people to build meaningful careers and businesses. Whether you're pivoting from a corporate job, looking for your next chapter, or finally ready to pursue that startup idea, we're here to guide you.
Build With Me is led by Shanell Guardo, founder of KinTech™, LLC. With 15+ years leading large-scale technical program management and platform transformation initiatives across the Department of Defense, federal healthcare, fintech, and leading cloud providers, Shanell knows what it takes to build and ship at scale.
But this program isn't about building at enterprise scale—it's about building smart as a solo founder. Right now, Shanell is building GetWorkKin™, a workforce platform that removes barriers to second-chance employment. That means she's navigating the same decisions you will: choosing tech stacks, setting up multi-environment deployments, writing accessibility tests, managing cloud costs, and shipping features while learning in real-time.
Shanell's philosophy: "Systems are the most powerful way to create equity. Fix the system, and you change the outcomes." That's why KinTech™ builds technology that removes real-world barriers—and why Founder Series: Build With Me exists. This program teaches you how to build systems that create opportunity, not just features.
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