“Ideas into Innovations” Founder Institute Panel for Entrepreneurs 2/17 in Santa Fe

SANTA FE, N.M. - Feb. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- February 4, 2015 - Santa Fe, New Mexico: Startup Santa Fe, a new partnership initiative between Creative Santa Fe and the City of Santa Fe, announced today that the Founder Institute, the world-class Silicon Valley accelerator is opening a new chapter in Santa Fe. Their inaugural class begins in May of 2015 and they are holding an information session and panel discussion on February 17, 2015, from 6:00-8:30PM at Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe.

Gene Grant, the host of “New Mexico In Focus” and correspondent for New Mexico PBS, KNME-TV, will moderate the “Ideas into Innovations” panel, discussing how ideas become the products and companies we are familiar with, and how new ideas are captured and transformed into the innovations of tomorrow.

All of us are idea creation machines, but how do you identify the good ideas, mold them, and transform them into applications in the real world?

Our expert panel includes:

Alan Webber (Founding Editor of Fast Company)

Lee Zlotoff (TV & Movie Producer, Creator of MacGyver, Founder of Storymyn Startup)

Nicholas Seet (Co-founder of Auditude and Sivi; Entrepreneurship Faculty, UNM – Los Alamos)

Molly Cernicek (Founder & CEO, SportXast)

Shawn Patrick (Director, Startup Santa Fe; Founding Director, Founder Institute Santa Fe)

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies.

“Santa Fe and New Mexico offer a rich history of innovation as a place for makers,” said Adeo Ressi, Founder of the Founder Institute, “we are excited to see Santa Fe become the next successful chapter focused on turning people with ideas into capable entrepreneurs.”

The results have been spectacular in communities around the world. The Founder Institute is presently in 85 cities across 6 continents, has launched 1,310 graduate startups, creating 10,000 jobs with more than 10B in market cap, of which 87.5% are still in business. The program focuses on working people that want to learn how to take an idea from inception to market, without quitting their day job.

Come to learn more about the Founder Institute from the Santa Fe Chapter team, and about the efforts underway from Startup Santa Fe, to improve and support a thriving startup culture here in Santa Fe.

The event is free to the public and you can reserve tickets at the event’s web page (http://fi.co/e/32621). Food and drink will be served. In addition, for anyone interested in signing up now for the Founder Institute’s inaugural May, 2015 class, we can wave the application fee. You can get more information at our class sign up page (http://fi.co/join?target=santa_fe).

About Startup Santa Fe—Startup Santa Fe is a public private partnership with the City of Santa Fe and Creative Santa Fe to provide access to entrepreneurial resources online and throughout New Mexico. www.startupsantafe.com

About The Founder Institute—The Founder Institute (www.FI.co) is the world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs “learn by doing” and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, aspiring founders are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk.

Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 85 cities and 40 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 1,310 companies, which have created over 10,000+ new jobs. The company's mission is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” and create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.

The Founder Institute was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi.