Cohorts and Workshops
Build alongside other founders. Learn together, support each other, and hold each other accountable.
Our cohort programs and interactive workshops take the same frameworks from our sprints and deliver them in a group format. You get the structure and guidance, plus the community and perspective of peers on similar journeys.
Why Join a Cohort?
Shared Journey
Peer Accountability
Structured Learning
Building is lonely. Cohorts connect you with founders who truly understand your challenges.
Regular check-ins and shared commitments keep you moving forward when motivation fades.
Proven frameworks delivered in a format that fits your schedule.
Upcoming Cohorts and Workshops
Validate Express – Digital Health Edition
A 12-week guided startup idea validation cohort for founders building or considering product development of digital health or wellbeing products.
Starts mid Feb 2026
Prefer 1:1?
Our sprints offer the same frameworks with dedicated, personalised support.
Cohorts and Workshops
Build alongside other founders. Learn together, support each other, and hold each other accountable.
Our cohort programs and interactive workshops take the same frameworks from our sprints and deliver them in a group format. You get the structure and guidance, plus the community and perspective of peers on similar journeys.
Why Join a Cohort?
Shared Journey
Building is lonely. Cohorts connect you with founders who truly understand your challenges.
Peer Accountability
Regular check-ins and shared commitments keep you moving forward when motivation fades.
Structured Learning
Proven frameworks delivered in a format that fits your schedule.
Upcoming Cohorts and Workshops
Validate Express – Digital Health Edition
A 12-week guided startup idea validation cohort for founders building or considering product development of digital health or wellbeing products.
Starts mid Feb 2026
Prefer 1:1?
Our sprints offer the same frameworks with dedicated, personalised support.
FAQ
PRODUCT BUS COHORT PROGRAMS
Validate Express is designed to help people in the early stages of considering a startup or product idea. This could be a brand new idea, a pivot from an existing idea, or an exploration of how to scale an existing service into a product.
No. The principles behind the Product Mindset and Product Management Principles apply to any types of product – including physical products, turning consulting or training services into scaleable products, and more. If you’re not sure if your idea is the right fit for the program, book a call to chat to us about it.
Validate Express is all about empowering founders with a strong understanding of the product mindset and how to apply the principles and strategies used by product managers in the world’s most successful startups.
You’ll end the program with a clear understanding of the next steps to take with your idea, be it the insights you need to seek, a possible pivot that would make your idea more viable, or perhaps an understanding that it’s time to set this idea aside and dream up something else.
You’ll take away strategies and tools that you can use to continue to work on your existing idea or apply to new projects. You’ll also finish with a network of fellow founders and mentors you can call on as you continue to navigate your startup journey!
All of the sessions are conducted over Zoom and the group session times will be determined based on the schedules of the participants.
To start and finish the experience, you’ll have a 1:1 session with a mentor that will help you prepare going in to the experience and process your next steps as you finish.
In between, you’ll have four group sessions, each with some work to do in between as you take the concepts we’re covering and apply them to your idea.
If you have a working prototype but are still unsure of your positioning in the market or the commercial viability of your idea, then absolutely!
Our cohorts are led by The Product Bus team who bring experience both as founders and as seasoned product managers in previous startups covering B2B / B2C and SaaS. We’ll be announcing mentors for this cohort round shortly.