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Early-Stage Venture Operators

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A community-powered early-stage company building knowledge hub for founders to crack the product-market fit stage in building modern and valuable enterprises.

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A next-level learning experience designed for action-oriented individuals and venture builders

ACCESS PERIOD

12-month learning experience and venture resource access upon enrolment.

WHAT TO EXPECT

eLearning materials and community touch points breaking down key concepts driving early-stage validation and rapid growth across the product-market fit stage in Asia.

WHO IS THIS FOR

Ideal for startup and venture founders and executives seeking actionable insights, proven tactics and community-driven learning experience to accelerate their success.

WHY IT MATTERS

Tap into the wisdom and hard-won lessons of seasoned venture operators to avoid costly mistakes and reduce risk in your early-stage journey.

ADMISSION MECHANICS

No requirements. Open to founders, executives, and operators at any stage of their journey.

Guiding Venture Builders with Insights,
Frameworks and Hands-On Support.

Online Courses and On-Demand Videos

First 3 months

Venture Basics & First Steps

Kickoff your journey with our introductory course to orient and set your venture approach right with our proprietary VANGUARD framework and other key operating principles to accelerate your thinking to derisk your early-stage decisions, actions and operation management.

Next 9 months

Functional
Deep Dive

Access into a series of Intermediate to Advanced level function-specific courses that expands from the basics and deeper into direct and contextualised application of key early-stage tactics.

Action Guiding Frameworks andTemplates

Downloadable Building Blocks

Instead of starting from scratch, we developed templates that were used and polished by ourselves so you can leverage on them, duplicate your copy, and call it your own. We have everything from brainstorming frameworks, assessment/auditing exercises, auto-calculating financial sheets, decks with guiding manual built-in etc.

Knowledge Feedback and Assesment

Dedicated Comment Segments in Key Concept Intervals

Learn without worry about feeling stuck— our Learning Checkpoints, including open discussion forums and case study sections, are designed to help you assess your own understanding at each key learning milestone.

To keep applied learning interactive, our team of experienced practitioners is available to answer your questions asynchronously within the learning platform, especially at critical learning junctures.

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Office Hours

4 hours time credit

Office Hours

8 hours time credit

Need a sounding board every step of the way in building and navigating around your venture? We standby for you with a bench of experienced venture operators.

Additional Perks

Exclusive Invite into GUIDE Ecosystem Building Events

All barriers of Learning Pass gets discounted or flat fees access to all GUIDE partnered and co-organised paid-events.

Advancing into GUIDE Fellowship Program— Our fullest and most exclusive founder support and network access infrastructure

From time to time, we seek out extraordinary, high-performing venture entrepreneurs to provide them with unfair advantages and sharing our internal resources (tangible and intangible). By placing them on this special fast-track, we accelerate their journey to scale because we believe in the future they are building in their local communities and Asia— and we’re committed to betting on them as much as they bet on us.

Note: The GUIDE Fellowship Program (GFP) is an invitation-only initiative. Selections are based on a combination of observations, interactions, and recommendations from GUIDE staff, independent bodies, and affiliated individuals. While the Barriers of Learning Pass is not a requirement for GFP, it enhances the likelihood of gaining exposure and engagement with us. (We have discontinued 2024 GUIDE Founders Program and elevated it to GUIDE Fellowship Program, using the same abbreviation)

Venture Talent Placement

For Learners that are transitioning between careers, we provide support and opportunities to secure a role within our ecosystem of portfolio companies— ensuring a strong match that fosters growth for both the Learners and the hiring firm.

Note: Additional assessment and training may be required for highly specialised role and no placement guarantees.

PERFECT FOR

Emerging early-stage founders at the zero-to-one stage

CONTEXTUALISED & BATTLE-TESTED VENTURE KNOWLEDGE

Learning Pass offers highly vetted, up-to-date context- and nuance-rich knowledge resources, ensuring you stay informed and equipped with relevant insights.

A GROWING NETWORK THAT VALIDATES AND VALUE-ADD TO FOUNDERS' JOURNEY

Enables founders to leverage a robust network, connecting them with early adopters and facilitating direct access to valuable partnerships, testing opportunities, business development, market exploration, and investment prospects.

Learning Experience Designed
To Complement Different Venture Rhythm

Fundamentals

Venture
Basics

What you’ll get:

3-months learning experience and venture resource access to the Venture Business & Startup Basics

Inclusive of 3-months co-working hotdesk at ASBHive

Full Curriculum

Learning
Pass

What you’ll get:

12-months learning experience and venture resource access

All existing and upcoming video lessons in 2025 (up to 40 lesson)

Total of 12 hours office hour time credit

Inclusive of 6-months co-working hotdesk at ASBHive (For Kuala Lumpur-based startups)

Discounted or flat priced ticket to all GUIDE partnered and co-organised paid-events

An Invitation to Early Adopters
To Accelerate the Growth of Your Venture

Untill 30th June 2025

Early Adopters

Redeem up to 40% savings by joining as an Early Adopter before 30th June 2025. This exclusive offer is designed for those ready to invest in their venture journey with intention and momentum.

What you’ll get:

12-months learning experience and venture resource access

All existing and upcoming video lessons in 2025 (up to 40 lesson)

Total of 12 hours office hour time credit

Inclusive of 6-months co-working hotdesk at ASBHive (beginning in July 2025, only for Kuala Lumpur-based startups)

Discounted or flat priced ticket to all GUIDE partnered and co-organised paid-events

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A growing collection of practitioner designed online course, video lessons, downloadable building blocks and frameworks for the ones that are taking a venture leap in their career.

Most Popular

A roundup of GUIDE's most popular lessons.

Basics

Lifecycle of Startup

Venture businesses are modern, high-growth, high-impact enterprises. This lesson provides a crash course on startups, how they differ from traditional business models, and the key stages of launching and scaling a venture. You’ll explore the maturity process of a startup and the critical execution phases in its early development.

BEGINNER

15 MIN

COMING SOON

Product & Services

Building A MVP For Early Market Validation

In this lesson, you’ll learn best practices for building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by developing a streamlined version of your offering that focuses on essential features solving key customer pain points. You’ll test market viability, leverage user feedback for continuous refinement, and establish key growth indicators to measure success and drive ongoing improvement.

BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE

20 MIN

COMING SOON

Sales & Marketing

Head-on Strategy vs. Market Creation Strategy

How do you carve out your own space in a crowded market? This lesson explores the risks, key attributes, and case studies of two contrasting market growth strategies. It also provides an execution-focused perspective on market share dynamics for early-stage venture operators.

INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCE

25 MIN

COMING SOON

Finance & Capital

Startup Capital Options

What truly defines ‘smart’ capital? This lesson provides a comprehensive overview of the different types of venture capital funding, their typical requirements, and a practical approach to raising equity financing, offering synthesised insights from experienced practitioners.

BEGINNER

15 MIN

COMING SOON

Sales & Marketing

First Adopter Sales

Not everyone will pay for something they’ve never heard of. This lesson teaches you how to identify early adopters, craft effective sales strategies for engagement, and leverage social proof to build credibility—ultimately attracting more users and converting them into paying customers.

BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE

15 MIN

COMING SOON

People & Talent

Venture Hiring Techniques

Avoid costly hiring mistakes! This lesson explores the key aspects of venture recruitment, helping you navigate the hiring process with a strategic approach. You’ll learn the advantages of venture hiring, what a realistic venture-culture-fit talent profile looks like, and how to improve talent discovery and search. Additionally, we’ll cover alternative hiring options to build a strong, mission-aligned team.

INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED

15 MIN

COMING SOON

Trusted by Founders — Voices from Venture
Builders on the Impact We've Made.

GUIDE’s Founders Program helped me restructure my pre-seed concept before it went haywire. The information was helpful for a new startup with close to NIL information on tech start-up perspective. It brought me through a learning process that is just right, neither too dry nor dull

Alex Goh

Founder/CEO of Happie Token

The materials provided were thorough and transparent, particularly in areas like financial management, which empowered us to make well-informed decisions.

June Kweh

Founder of HeyPawfriends

I get to learn the fundamentals of startup and connect to great people that are on similar journey in building and scaling startups.

Eng GM

Founder/CEO of Altomate