Aug 10
Forge The Future(the Summit)
Eight nights. Two weeks. Ninety minutes a night.
A virtual summit built for implementation, not inspiration — every session ends with a move you can make the next morning.
Aug 10–20 · virtual · free
ventriq · built for founders
The resources are out there. They’re just camouflaged.
Ventriq points the way in: capital, programming, and council for small business owners, startups, and nonprofits doing the real work — every serious founder welcome, with a focus on the builders the old models overlook.
- Forge The Future, Ventriq's first summit
- Aug 10–20Forge The Future, Ventriq's first summit
- nights, 90 minutes each
- 8nights, 90 minutes each
- first Founders After Hours chapter
- Baltimorefirst Founders After Hours chapter
- seats — Mastermind cohort 2, September
- 10seats — Mastermind cohort 2, September
Three ways in.
$39
Founders After Hours
The founder night you leave with work done.
A digital home for replays, office hours, and answers — and a monthly in-person hour where the calls get made, the emails get sent, and the wins get tallied.
Baltimore first · membership from $39/mo
Sep
The Mastermind
Ten founders. Ten weeks. A scoreboard.
Weekly working sessions, a performance dashboard, and a graduation bar you have to earn. Applications for cohort 2 open ahead of the September start.
September · 10 seats · application-gated
One structure. Three doors.
Every program leads into the next. Come for a session. Stay for the room. Build for the decade. Ventriq holds three pillars under one roof — capital, programming, and council — so a founder never has to choose which kind of help to go find alone.
Why this exists
I started my first company with a prayer, a $1,000 grant, and a ninety-day deadline. Nobody handed me a map — and I still got further than anyone expected. Ventriq is the map I wish somebody had handed me.
If you’re building something real, you belong in this room.
— Justin Shaw, Founder
Founders who’ve built with Justin
“They completely restructured my nonprofit — a three-year vision, and the systems to run it.”
“Justin built a roadmap to exit our business in four years. We're ahead of schedule.”
“The executive guidance reframed how I manage my business.”
Put a name behind the builders
Summit sessions and chapter nights can be sponsored by companies and organizations that want to reach serious entrepreneurs — visibly and usefully, not a logo on a lanyard.