Across 3 exciting months, you’ll deep-dive into everything that makes a startup click — exploring yourself as a founder, validating your idea, designing a prototype or POC, building your business model, and finding those first customers. You’ll crack go-to-market strategies, learn digital branding, sharpen your sales game, and pitch like a pro. Along the way, you’ll also get insider hacks on Innovation, funding, grants, and startup support. By the end, you’ll walk away with a clear startup blueprint, investor-ready pitch, and the confidence to build big.
Founders Jockey Program
Get your Startup blueprint Ready in 50 Hours
Got an idea but stuck on where to start?
Or building a prototype and need that extra push?
The Founders Jockey Program is your startup bootcamp
real founder mentoring + practical tools + Lemon’s 12-year ecosystem.
Get your idea investor-ready and yourself founder-ready.
Time to saddle up and ride!
Its your time !
Course Coverage
By the end of this 3-month program, participants will be able to:
Validate and refine their startup idea with a proven framework.
Become ready to acquire their first set of customers.
Pitch like a pro to investors, mentors, and stakeholders.
Build a practical startup blueprint ready for run/execution.
Who Should Join
Aspiring & early-stage or Student entrepreneurs.
Founders at Idea stage, Prototype stage, MVP, or Pre-revenue stage..
Individuals serious about turning their idea into a scalable venture.
Dreamers who dare to think big and want to make a mark through their innovation
Duration & Format
3 months
50 hours
Up to 25 participants / batch
Online, weekend sessions
Live interactions with mentors & successful founders
Milestone badges
Course completion certificate
Program Curriculum: Course Coverage
- Self-exploration & Entrepreneurial Orientation – Discover your strengths, mindset, and readiness to thrive as a founder.
- Ideation & Validation – Shape raw ideas into real opportunities through structured validation tools.
- Leadership Skills & Team building – Build resilience, risk-taking ability, and leadership skills vital for entrepreneurship.
- Creative Problem Solving & Design Thinking – Learn to tackle challenges with innovation and user-centric approaches.
- Product Prototyping & Proof of Concept – Convert concepts into prototypes and test feasibility early.
- Business Modeling & Monetization Strategies – Design sustainable business models and identify revenue streams.
- Pricing Strategy – Understand pricing dynamics and set the right value for your product/service.
- Go-to-Market & Customer Acquisition – Build strategies to launch effectively and secure your first set of customers.
- Building Digital Identity & Leveraging technology – Craft your online presence and use emerging technology, AI & digital tools to grow reach.
- The Art of Sales & Venture Creation – Master the basics of sales and turn your idea into a real business.
- Government Grants & Startup Support Schemes – Explore available support systems to fuel your growth.
- Creating a Startup Blueprint – Put it all together into a step-by-step roadmap for your venture plan.
Much more to learn….
Alongside the core modules, the program also introduces participants to a set of secondary but essential topics that broaden their entrepreneurial perspective. These include innovation and Blue Ocean strategy, incubation and acceleration opportunities, legal, compliance and IPR basics, financial record-keeping and startup metrics, investor empathy and funding sources, pitch deck design and presentation skills, teaming and people management, growth strategies and global market orientation, as well as mindful entrepreneurship and spirituality in startups. These themes are explored through founder interactions, Ask Me Anything sessions, and open Q&A forums, providing opportunities to learn directly from real-world experiences, challenges, and failures. This ensures participants not only cover structured content but also gain practical, contextual, and experience-driven insights that go beyond the curriculum.
Make a Pitch Day
Participants would present their startup to a panel of mentors, experts & investors for feedback, funding opportunities, and collaboration.
Key Highlights
- Live & interactive sessions with entrepreneurs.
- Exercises, case studies & reflection-based learning.
- Mentoring circles and Mentor-on-call for personalized inputs
- Interactions with Lemon’s power alumni network of successful startup founders.
- Domain/sector-specific founder connect sessions.
- Opportunity to raise funding through Lemon’s investor ecosystem.
Lemon Pedagogy
- Learn by Doing – practical, hands-on learning.
- Experiential training with real-world case studies.
- Reflective learning & personal growth.
- By Entrepreneurs, For Entrepreneurs – mentored by those who’ve built ventures.
- Mentoring circles & Fireside chat with founders
Tools & Frameworks
A unique highlight of the program is access to proprietary tools and frameworks developed and refined by Lemon Ideas over the past 12 years of working with thousands of entrepreneurs. Participants will learn to apply the 21-Gate Idea Validation Model, Problem-Solution Modeling, and the 6E: Idea to Reality Model to systematically shape their ventures. Frameworks like the 20 Attributes Framework, Business Model Canvas (BMC), Idea Plan, and Venture Scorecard provide structured methods to assess and strengthen ideas. In addition, the Entrepreneur Orientation Psychometric Assessment helps founders understand their own entrepreneurial traits, while pitch deck templates equip them to communicate their vision effectively. These tools ensure that every participant moves from abstract concepts to a practical, measurable, and investor-ready startup blueprint.
Mentors & Founders – Your Dream Team
Entrepreneurship is best learned from those who’ve lived it. The Founders Jockey Program brings together an inspiring panel of mentors and founders who share their expertise, stories, and real-world insights. This Dream Team ensures that every participant not only gains knowledge but also absorbs the mindset, resilience, and strategies of successful entrepreneurs.
Why this matters
Learning from real journeys – Mentors share not just their successes but also failures, pivots, and challenges, giving participants unfiltered insights.
Relevance & Practicality – Inputs come from practitioners, not just theory, ensuring everything taught is immediately actionable.
Accelerated Learning Curve – By drawing on the experiences of those who’ve “been there, done that,” participants avoid common mistakes and fast-track their entrepreneurial growth.
Mentor Pool
Experienced professionals from Lemon Ideas with years of expertise in startup mentoring, venture design, and entrepreneurship development.
Seasoned coaches in business modeling, marketing, fundraising, and entrepreneurial mindset.
Founder Interactions ( Super 100 club)
Prominent startup founders from the Lemon ecosystem who have built ventures in tech, services, education, sustainability, and more.
Sector-specific founders share deep insights into their industries, giving participants contextual learning.
Stories of resilience: navigating funding winters, building teams, scaling, and even bouncing back from failures.
Impact: These close interactions ensure that every participant doesn’t just learn entrepreneurship but lives it through shared experiences, gaining a real-world edge.
The mentor panel is designed as a balanced ecosystem of guidance — covering ecosystem building, product, strategy, marketing, funding, psychology, mindfulness, and technology. Participants get 360° support from seasoned experts who’ve walked the entrepreneurial path. A vast Founders pool is much more accessible at Lemon, and getting the right light for you would be a relatively straightforward process within the Lemon ecosystem.
The Dream Team offers participants a 360° learning ecosystem — from self-awareness to scaling, from product to funding, from marketing to mindfulness — ensuring that your entrepreneurial journey is guided, grounded, and growth-focused.
The powerful Super 100 founders club would be extended mentoring and guidance to the participants.
The Founders – Real Startup Journeys
- Sagar Bhajani – Khichadiwala | Built a scalable QSR brand from India’s comfort food.
- Ravi Kumar – Udchalo | Scaled a leading travel-tech platform for India’s armed forces.
- Vamsi – HESA | Driving rural commerce and entrepreneurship through tech innovation.
- Vikram Mitra – Delta Botanicals | Creating sustainable biotech solutions with global potential.
- Shiv Varun Rajput – Nautical Wings Aerospace | Innovating UAV and drone technologies in deep-tech.
- Purvi Roy – Aristavault | A Shark Tank featured Tech innovator pioneering smart luggage solutions.
- Palak Vasa – Infilytics | Building AI-driven data analytics solutions for businesses and finance teams.
- Puran Singh Rajput – EF Polymer | Developing eco-friendly polymers for agricultural water management.
- Neha Chauhan – Aviotron Aerospace | Making aerospace technology and education accessible to youth.
- Chandra Mishra – Beggars Corporation | Redefining social entrepreneurship with dignity-led livelihoods.
and many more from the Super 100 founders group at Lemon Ecosystem
Fees: Value-Based Breakdown
Transparent pricing with everything you need to go from idea to execution.
What’s included
One all-inclusive feeComponent
What You Get
Market Value (₹)
Included
50 Hours Live Interactive Training
Expert-led sessions with frameworks & case studies (~80+ hr typical)
Live, interactive cohort sessions + case-based learning to accelerate outcomes.
40,000
Yes
Proprietary Lemon Frameworks
21-Gate Idea Validation, 6E Idea→Reality, Venture Scorecard, Pitch Deck Templates & more
Reusable templates, checklists, and step-by-step frameworks.
15,000
Yes
Personal Mentoring (2 sessions)
1:1 founder-mentor calls for idea validation & roadmap
Personalized feedback to refine strategy and next steps.
10,000
Yes
Pitch Day with Investors & Mentors
Direct pitching, feedback & possible connects
Live demo-style pitch to a curated panel; get real-time guidance.
15,000
Yes
Founder Community Membership (1 year)
Access to founders’ circle, peer learning, & events
Exclusive community, job board, collabs, and learning events.
5,000
Yes
Milestone Badges & Capstone Certificate
Module-wise badges + final course certificate
Showcase progress publicly and validate completion.
5,000
Yes
Total Market Value
90,000
Course Fee (All-inclusive)
25,000 only
Your Savings
65,000
Why this is a great deal
More value than premium programs — practical outcomes without inflated costs.
Hands-on learning — not just videos; live guidance and real-world application.
Real community & live mentoring — rare in most online programs.
Direct outcome promise — startup blueprint ready within the program window.
Lemon Edge: Live mentoring + Proprietary frameworks + Pitch Day