On Deck Scale
Upleveling founders from Seed to IPO.
Apply NowApplication deadline: January 2, 2021
Kick-off: January 31, 2021
Scale your company, surrounded by founders of the fastest-growing startups
ODS will bring together highly curated fellowships of 60-80 hyper-growth and repeat founders, grouped by small, stage-appropriate cohorts, helping navigate startup scaling with executive coaching, mentorship, peer accountability, tactical sessions, and exclusive access to executive talent and investors.
We believe that when founders thrive, their companies thrive. We will accelerate you toward your most ambitious goals – helping you scale yourself, and your company, to get there.
Seed Founders
Establish early relationships that will grow with you. Get coaching, mentorship, and pragmatic feedback to help you recruit your early team and shape a conscious culture while building revenues.
Series A Founders
Scale your product and team while adding talented leadership and driving exponential growth. Get the support you need in confidential forums from founders who have faced similar challenges and opportunities.
Series B Founders
Level up personal and company leadership, establish executive coaching structures suited to your organizational needs, and get strategic and tactical advice from world class operators.
Unicorn Founders
Build and connect with a community of global leaders and influencers, connect with executive talent at the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies, and leverage our network to source key executive hires.
The Program
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Unparalleled support
- Access to top tier coaching within your cohort, and get additional coaching resources for the rest of your team.
- Partner with mentors who have been in the trenches – just like you – and will help you elevate your game.
- Attend confidential fireside chats with successful founders who will share their experiences on achieving scale.
- Participate in tactical deep-dive sessions focused on fundraising, hiring, growth, and more.
Unrivalled network
- Join the founders of 2020’s fastest-growing companies so you can learn with them and from them.
- Engage with a mastermind group of 8 founders in similar stages to help you work through your biggest challenges.
- Get exclusive access to top talent, sourced from our executive network and the On Deck Founders and First 50 Fellowships.
- Build early relationships with investors from the On Deck Angels and Venture Capital Fellowships.
Apply for On Deck Scale
Pricing: $10,000 or 6 installments of $1,990
Apply NowApplication deadline: January 2, 2021
Kick-off: January 31, 2021
Access to the On Deck Founder Fellowship
The On Deck Founder Fellowship (ODF) is a 10-week program that creates an incredible community around a cohort of experienced founders & talented individuals in the formative stages of starting a company.
As an On Deck Writer Fellow, you’ll have complete access to the rest of the On Deck Fellowship, full of world-class startup experts who can help you with marketing, growth, and connecting with leaders in your subject matter.
Want to learn more about ODF? 👉Read the ODF5 Announcement Post
What to Expect
Connect with a small group of exceptional, similar stage founders who will help you solve your biggest challenges and achieve your goals.
Access top tier executive coaching within your cohort, and get additional resources for the rest of your team.
Partner with mentors who have been in the trenches – just like you – and will help you elevate your game.
There’s a ton of content available to founders. We won’t reinvent it, but we’ll organize it for you and help you find what you need, when you need it.
Exclusive access to top talent looking for their next role, sourced from On Deck Founders and First 50 Fellowships.
Connect and build early relationships with investors from our network and the On Deck Angels and Venture Capital Fellowships.
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Apply for On Deck Scale
Pricing: $10,000 or 6 installments of $1,990
Apply NowApplication deadline: January 2, 2021
Kick-off: January 31, 2021
FAQ
To be a good fit for On Deck Scale, you are probably
- A highly motivated founder of a venture-scale company who would benefit from the authentic relationships forged with other growth-oriented founders.
- Open to seeking the support, coaching, and mentorship required to scale yourself and your company.
- Willing to share your experiences, challenge assumptions, expand your perspectives, and raise the bar for yourself and others .
- Committed to lifelong learning and a spirit of service to others.
The cost of On Deck Scale is $10,000 or 6 installments of $1,990.
You should plan to invest 2-3 hours per week in On Deck Scale. The curriculum is designed to help you leverage time, networks, and resources to your exponential advantage. It’s our intention that one unit invested will yield many in return.
We are committed to identifying and supporting the very best founders at every stage of company growth from Seed to IPO. We’ll group founders appropriately based on company stage and other relevant factors. Founders who have not raised capital should consider applying to the On Deck Fellowship.
We’re accepting applications from founders of seed stage companies to IPO. Seed stage founders must have raised at least $1.5M in the last six months or achieved $100k MRR run rate.
We certainly believe so. ODS will benefit any founder committed to significant learning and personal growth, expanding their network and personal influence, and becoming a better leader. While the On Deck network is large and continually expanding, On Deck Scale is designed to help you scale yourself as fast as you’re scaling your company.
Yes: ODS will be run entirely remotely. This enables participation from all corners of the world. We’ve spent the past few ODF cohorts mastering the playbook for building remote communities and relationship building online, and will apply the same approach here.
Post-COVID, we’ll return to organizing offline programming like dinners, small gatherings, and retreats, but the core Fellowship will remain a remote-first experience.
We are accepting Fellows from around the world.
For this first cohort, the majority of sessions will be in North American time zones, but recordings will available to Fellows at any time. There will be additional content specifically designed for Fellows based in Europe.
Fellows from Asia are welcome to join, but we expect to have fewer sessions in local time zones for the first cohort of ODS.
Not yet – At this time we’re keeping focused on company founders.
Yes – As long as you are the founder of a venture-scale company.
On Deck lives by four core guiding values, crucial to the culture we strive to foster in the community:
- Service: On Deck is bigger than any one person. For this community to thrive, it must be driven by a spirit of service to others. Be generous with your time, knowledge, and support. Karma has a way of finding its way back.
- Sacredness: By default, everything is off the record. Many in this group are searching for something deeper in their lives or making big transitions, and others may not yet have publicly shared this with friends, family, or employers. Please honor that, and avoid sharing anything you learn about each other without explicit permission.
- Respect: You are all now part of the On Deck family. You’re all embarking on what will surely be a rollercoaster of a journey — but you’re in this shared experience together. With that comes a sense of responsibility: be inclusive, stick together, and respect one another.
- Gratitude: have a spirit of curiosity and gratitude. We’re bringing together a group of fascinating people, most of whom likely have never met each other…how amazing is that? Get to know each other, and make the cohort what you want it to be for yourself.
But helping founders is just half of the equation. If a startup chooses to raise capital, who they raise from can have an incredible impact on its trajectory in the early days.
Founders love raising from other founders and experienced operators. They’ve been there before, have great advice, networks, and know their markets better than anyone else. If we’re trying to 10x the number of world-class founders, it stands to reason we should help grow the number of top investors who will back them early, as well.
- Sacredness: By default, everything is off the record. Many in this group are searching for something deeper in their lives or making big transitions, and others may not yet have publicly shared this with friends, family, or employers. Please honor that, and avoid sharing anything you learn about each other without explicit permission.
- Respect: You are all now part of the On Deck family. You’re all embarking on what will surely be a rollercoaster of a journey — but you’re in this shared experience together. With that comes a sense of responsibility: be inclusive, stick together, and respect one another.
- Gratitude: have a spirit of curiosity and gratitude. We’re bringing together 200 fascinating people, most of whom likely have never met each other…how amazing is that? Get to know each other, and make the cohort what you want it to be for yourself.
On Deck lives by four core guiding values, crucial to the culture we strive to foster in the community:
- Service: On Deck is bigger than any one person. For this community to thrive, it must be driven by a spirit of service to others. Be generous with your time, knowledge, and support. Karma has a way of finding its way back.
- Sacredness: By default, everything is off the record. Many in this group are searching for something deeper in their lives or making big transitions, and others may not yet have publicly shared this with friends, family, or employers. Please honor that, and avoid sharing anything you learn about each other without explicit permission.
- Respect: You are all now part of the On Deck family. You’re all embarking on what will surely be a rollercoaster of a journey — but you’re in this shared experience together. With that comes a sense of responsibility: be inclusive, stick together, and respect one another.
- Gratitude: have a spirit of curiosity and gratitude. We’re bringing together 200 fascinating people, most of whom likely have never met each other…how amazing is that? Get to know each other, and make the cohort what you want it to be for yourself.
On Deck lives by four core guiding values, crucial to the culture we strive to foster in the community:
- Service: On Deck is bigger than any one person. For this community to thrive, it must be driven by a spirit of service to others. Be generous with your time, knowledge, and support. Karma has a way of finding its way back.
- Sacredness: By default, everything is off the record. Many in this group are searching for something deeper in their lives or making big transitions, and others may not yet have publicly shared this with friends, family, or employers. Please honor that, and avoid sharing anything you learn about each other without explicit permission.
- Respect: You are all now part of the On Deck family. You’re all embarking on what will surely be a rollercoaster of a journey — but you’re in this shared experience together. With that comes a sense of responsibility: be inclusive, stick together, and respect one another.
- Gratitude: have a spirit of curiosity and gratitude. We’re bringing together 200 fascinating people, most of whom likely have never met each other…how amazing is that? Get to know each other, and make the cohort what you want it to be for yourself.
On Deck lives by four core guiding values, crucial to the culture we strive to foster in the community:
- Service: On Deck is bigger than any one person. For this community to thrive, it must be driven by a spirit of service to others. Be generous with your time, knowledge, and support. Karma has a way of finding its way back.
- Sacredness: By default, everything is off the record. Many in this group are searching for something deeper in their lives or making big transitions, and others may not yet have publicly shared this with friends, family, or employers. Please honor that, and avoid sharing anything you learn about each other without explicit permission.
- Respect: You are all now part of the On Deck family. You’re all embarking on what will surely be a rollercoaster of a journey — but you’re in this shared experience together. With that comes a sense of responsibility: be inclusive, stick together, and respect one another.
- Gratitude: have a spirit of curiosity and gratitude. We’re bringing together 200 fascinating people, most of whom likely have never met each other…how amazing is that? Get to know each other, and make the cohort what you want it to be for yourself.
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