建立起步器意味着在得到所有答案之前做出决策。
几时再做？你怎么知道你真的有产品市场合适？客户企业需要什么？你怎么建立合适的团队？当你终于站在投资者面前时，你如何确保你的投球赢得了另一个对话？
11月4日在波士顿SoWa电站，TechCrunch创始人峰会2026将聚集来自不同方面处理这些问题的创始人，投资者和运营商。
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有些演讲的创始人会在波士顿听到
史蒂夫·弗雷德特建设一个不断自我改造的公司
波士顿的创始人不必费心去寻找一个实例，说明当一个启动的发现其市场并随着它的客户而继续演变时会发生什么。
史蒂夫·弗雷德特(Steve Fredette),Toast的总裁，共同创始人兼董事长，为“建立一个能够让自己重新发明的公司”走上了影响阶段。
Toast的故事为创始人提供了一个令人信服的案例研究，找出一个客户问题，发现产品市场合适，赢得了客户，并最终将波士顿的起动规模提升为一家公营公司。
但达到规模并不意味着工作已经完成。 Fredette的谈话将研究作为客户期望、技术和周围市场变化而继续发展公司需要什么，同时保持与最初帮助创建企业的需求的联系。
肯特·贝内特关于知道产品市场是否合适
增长可以令人兴奋。 生长太早可能很贵。
Bessemer Venture Partners的合伙人Kent Bennett将领导“在你缩放之前寻找适合的产品市场 ”，重点是早期创始人可以回答的最重要的问题之一：客户是否真的告诉你你已经准备好成长了？
会议将使创始人有机会在增加人口、增加开支或加快上市努力之前，更认真地思考重要的信号。
启动文化的不断压力，有时，最聪明的下一步行动就是确保地基确实在那里。
鲁地娜·塞塞里在何时和何时刹车
与格拉斯温风险投资公司的创始人和管理伙伴鲁迪娜·塞塞里(Rudina Seseri)的这种紧张关系占据了中心位置。
在“何时缩放和何时击出刹车”中，塞塞里将探讨创始人如何区分要求加速的时刻和克制可能保护企业的时刻。
创始人不断在增长与纪律之间取舍。 知何时不规模可能与知何时去所有。
Lior Div 从第一天开始为AI建楼
AI正在重新塑造新公司如何看待产品、业务和团队
7AI的首席执行官兼联合创始人Lior Div将在“为AI从第一天起”中处理这一区别。
对于在目前科技环境下建设的创始人来说，对话提供了一个机会，可以超越AI来思考它如何影响整个公司的架构和运营模式。
波士顿创始人剧本上的Chase Garbarino
起步世界并不从硅谷开始并结束。
HqO的首席执行官兼联合创始人Chase Garbarino将参加“波士顿创始人游戏本”的“影响阶段”，审查从波士顿建立和扩展一家公司的意义。
对于整个新英格兰和更广泛的东海岸生态系统的创始人来说，对话提供了对人才，客户，首府，和湾区外的社区特别相关的视角。
与Fredette的Toast故事相结合，它也给今年的峰会带来了强大的地方通向线：在波士顿可以建立野心勃勃的公司，这里的创始人不需要复制硅谷来完成这项工作。
Dave Balter在球场上让你再次见面
投球不必结束交易。 它必须让某人想要下一次谈话。
Edisyl的首席执行官兼真实风险投资公司(True Ventures)的冒险合伙人Dave Balter将在“The Your Pitch Has to Earn the Next Conversation”中探讨这一想法。
对于每天习惯于解释自己的公司的创始人来说，会议提醒人们，了解你的业务和交流它的故事是两种不同的技能。
下午晚些时候，与会者将看到这一理论付诸实践。
在此获得创始人峰会发言人的完整名单。
看创始人投出现场
在“你认为你可以跳跃吗？” 上，创始人将在建设阶段现场测试他们的故事。
博尔特将与Definance Ventures的合伙人Chirag Shah和马韦龙的校长Simran Suri一起，因为创业公司在投资人评审小组面前陈述案件。
对于参与者来说，这是一个机会来观察当创始人时间有限时如何将一个想法连接起来，并了解投资者如何实时react.
这是创始人峰会方案互动性最强的部分之一，也是从落地的投出和使问题得不到答案的投出中学习的机会。
不止一次启动对话
其余的节目跨越了许多决定创始人现在面临。
NEA的Hunter Worland将探索为何发行会成为创业者下一个竞争优势。 Vineet Edupuganti, Cogent Security的联合创始人和首席执行官，将讨论建立10x团队。 TDK Ventures的蒂娜·托舒克霍翁(Tina Tosukhowong)将检查能够识别类胜者的隐藏信号。
与克莉斯汀·克拉夫特(Kristen Craft)讨论筹资趋势
议程共同创造了一天，不仅是为了提高下一轮或追求最新AI趋势，而且还是为了建设公司。
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Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers.
When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor, how do you make sure your pitch earns another conversation?
On November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will bring together founders, investors, and operators who have tackled those questions from different sides of the table.
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs. Save 25% on your ticket today, and bring a colleague along for free with our limited BOGO deal.
Some of the speakers founders will hear from in Boston
Steve Fredette on building a company that keeps reinventing itself
Boston founders do not have to look far for an example of what can happen when a startup finds its market and continues evolving with its customers.
Steve Fredette, president, co-founder, and director of Toast, takes the Impact Stage for “Building a Company That Keeps Reinventing Itself.”
Toast’s story offers founders a compelling case study in identifying a customer problem, finding product-market fit, winning customers, and ultimately scaling a Boston startup into a public company.
But reaching scale does not mean the work is finished. Fredette’s conversation will look at what it takes to continue evolving a company as customer expectations, technology, and the market change around it, while staying connected to the needs that helped create the business in the first place.
Kent Bennett on knowing when product-market fit is real
Growth can be exciting. Growing too early can be expensive.
Kent Bennett, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will lead “Finding Product Market Fit Before You Scale,” focusing on one of the most important questions an early-stage founder can answer: Are customers actually telling you that you are ready to grow?
The session will give founders a chance to think more critically about the signals that matter before adding headcount, increasing spend, or accelerating go-to-market efforts.
It is a useful counterpoint to startup culture’s constant pressure to move faster. Sometimes the smartest next move is making sure the foundation is actually there.
Rudina Seseri on when to scale and when to hit the brakes
That same tension takes center stage with Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures.
In “When to Scale and When to Hit the Brakes,” Seseri will explore how founders can distinguish between the moments that call for acceleration and the moments when restraint may protect the business.
Founders are constantly making trade-offs between growth and discipline. Knowing when not to scale can be just as consequential as knowing when to go all in.
Lior Div on building for AI from day one
AI is reshaping how new companies think about products, operations, and teams, but adding AI to an existing process is different from building a company around it from the start.
Lior Div, CEO and co-founder of 7AI, will tackle that distinction in “Built for AI From Day One.”
For founders building in the current technology environment, the conversation provides an opportunity to think beyond AI as a feature and toward how it can influence the architecture and operating model of an entire company.
Chase Garbarino on the Boston founder playbook
The startup world does not begin and end in Silicon Valley.
Chase Garbarino, CEO and co-founder of HqO, will take the Impact Stage for “The Boston Founder Playbook,” examining what it means to build and scale a company from Boston.
For founders across New England and the broader East Coast ecosystem, the conversation offers a particularly relevant perspective on talent, customers, capital, and community outside the Bay Area.
Combined with Fredette’s Toast story, it also gives this year’s Summit a strong local through line: Ambitious companies can be built in Boston, and founders here do not need to copy Silicon Valley to do it.
Dave Balter on the pitch that gets you another meeting
A pitch does not have to close the deal. It has to make someone want the next conversation.
Dave Balter, venture partner at True Ventures and CEO of Edisyl, will explore that idea in “Your Pitch Has to Earn the Next Conversation.”
For founders accustomed to explaining their companies every day, the session is a reminder that knowing your business and communicating its story are two different skills.
Later in the afternoon, attendees will see that theory put into practice.
Catch the full list of Founders Summit speakers here.
Watch founders pitch live
At “So You Think You Can Pitch?,” founders will put their stories to the test live on the Build Stage.
Balter will be joined by Chirag Shah, partner at Define Ventures, and Simran Suri, principal at Maveron, as startups make their cases in front of an investor judging panel.
For attendees, it is an opportunity to watch what happens when founders have limited time to make an idea connect, and to hear how investors react in real time.
It is one of the most interactive parts of the Founder Summit program and a chance to learn from both the pitches that land and the ones that leave questions unanswered.
More than one startup conversation
The rest of the program stretches across many of the decisions founders are facing right now.
Hunter Worland of NEA will explore why distribution may become a startup’s next competitive advantage. Vineet Edupuganti, co-founder and CEO of Cogent Security, will discuss building 10x teams. Tina Tosukhowong of TDK Ventures will examine the hidden signals that can identify category winners.
Fidelity Private Shares will also bring its perspective to conversations about fundraising trends with Kristen Craft and enterprise relationships with Evan Schnidman.
Together, the agenda creates a day that is not just about raising the next round or chasing the latest AI trend but is also about building the company.
Join the conversation in Boston
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 takes place November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston.
The day brings together candid founder conversations, practical sessions, smaller roundtables, live pitching, networking, and a closing reception presented by Fidelity Private Shares.
With the event approaching quickly and only so many spots left, don’t wait to register! Act now on our limited time offer and save 25% on your Founder Summit ticket.
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