# Founder Concept · [Programs and community](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/community) Also called: founders, startup founder, solo founder, founding team, entrepreneur A person who starts a company and owns part of it from the beginning. A company with one founder has a solo founder. Two or more are [co-founders](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical-co-founder). **For example:** Two friends start a scheduling company. One runs [sales](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/revenue) and the other builds the product. Both are founders. ## Connects to (47) - [Technical co-founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical-co-founder): A founding partner who can build the product themselves and who makes the technology decisions. - [Equity](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/equity): Ownership in a company. - [Vesting](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/vesting): Earning your shares bit by bit over time instead of all at once. - [Startup ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-ecosystem): The people, money and organizations in one place that help new companies start and grow. - [Coworking space](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/coworking-space): A shared office where people from different companies rent a desk, a private office or a meeting room, often by the month or by the day. - [First Friday Founders Market](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/first-friday-founders-market): A recurring market run by Build in Tulsa where entrepreneurs sell their products to the public. - [Folds Ventures](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/folds-ventures): A Tulsa venture fund that makes early-stage investments in companies founded by military veterans and first responders. - [Startup Grind Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-grind-tulsa): The Tulsa chapter of Startup Grind, a community for founders with chapters in many cities. - [The Root Coworking](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/the-root-coworking): A coworking company with two locations in Tulsa. - [Gitwit](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gitwit): A venture studio in Tulsa. - [Chimera Cafe](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chimera-cafe): A cafe in downtown Tulsa that serves coffee, food and drinks and hosts events. - [Natsukashii](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/natsukashii): A Japanese restaurant in downtown Tulsa that also runs a full coffee and matcha service. - [Pony Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pony-coffee): A Tulsa coffee shop that roasts its own coffee and describes itself as Oklahoma owned and operated. - [DoubleShot Coffee Company](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/doubleshot-coffee): A coffee roaster and cafe in Tulsa, open since 2004, that calls itself Oklahoma's first specialty coffee roaster. - [Topeca Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/topeca-coffee): A coffee roaster based in Tulsa with cafes downtown. - [Builders + Backers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/builders-backers): A venture studio that helps people turn an idea into a business by combining AI-powered guidance with help from experienced entrepreneurs. - [Spinout](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/spinout): A new, separate company created from part of an existing company, university or lab, often taking a product, team or technology with it. - [Indie hacker](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/indie-hacker): Someone who builds and runs a small software business on their own or with a tiny team, usually without outside investors. - [Indie Hackers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/indie-hackers): An online community where founders share how they build profitable, often self-funded, businesses, with posts, interviews and revenue… - [HiHello](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hihello): A service for digital business cards, shared by QR code or link instead of paper, with email signatures and a company directory for teams. - [Watson Institute](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/watson-institute): An educational organization based in Boulder, Colorado that trains entrepreneurs and community leaders. - [Belle Isle Library](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/belle-isle-library): A Metro Library branch in Oklahoma City that reopened in 2022 after a renovation that added study rooms, two large meeting rooms and a… - [Brut Hotel](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/brut-hotel): A boutique hotel in Tulsa's SoBo district with a lobby cafe meant for coffee and focused work, a rooftop restaurant, a pool and a spa. - [Caboose Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/caboose-coffee): A coffee shop in Oklahoma City that says it grew from a humble closet into a loud and proud coffee shop. - [Clarity Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/clarity-coffee): A coffee roaster and cafe in Oklahoma City with three locations. - [Don't Stress Meowt](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dont-stress-meowt): A family of cat businesses in Oklahoma City and Tulsa that includes a cat cafe, grooming and boarding, and an online shop. - [Factory Obscura](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/factory-obscura): An Oklahoma City company that makes immersive art experiences, best known for Mix-Tape, a large hand-built art space downtown. - [Gray Owl Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gray-owl-coffee): A worker cooperative coffee shop and roastery in downtown Norman. - [Greenwood Griot](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/greenwood-griot): A Tulsa tour company that leads walking tours and indoor presentations on the history of the Greenwood District and Black Wall Street… - [Inheritance Kitchen + Juicery](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/inheritance-kitchen-juicery): A restaurant and juice bar in south Tulsa that serves organic food and cold-pressed juices and caters business events. - [Slate at Founders Tower](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/slate-founders-tower): An event venue that fills the 20th floor of Founders Tower, a 1964 landmark in Oklahoma City. - [StarSpace46](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/starspace46): A coworking space in Oklahoma City with desks, conference rooms, private offices and day passes, which calls itself a community of… - [Parlor OKC](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/the-parlor-okc): A food hall in Oklahoma City's Automobile Alley with seven kitchens, two bars, a garden patio and an event space that can be booked. - [Welltown Brewing](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/welltown): A brewery and taproom in downtown Tulsa with skyline views. - [Zero Tolerance Coffee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/zero-tolerance-coffee): A veteran-owned coffee house and bean-to-bar chocolate maker in the Britton district of Oklahoma City, founded in 2019 and now called SIYO… - [Black Dog Law](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/black-dog-law): A Tulsa intellectual property law firm that helps inventors, creators and founders with patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing and… - [Endeavor](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/endeavor): A global network supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs with mentorship and strategic connections. - [Gradient CHROMA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gradient-chroma): Gradient's innovation conference, held at Gradient's building in the Tulsa Arts District. - [Greenwood District](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/greenwood-district): A historic district in Tulsa, famous as Black Wall Street, that grew in the early 1900s into a busy center of Black-owned businesses and… - [Oklahoma Grassroots Rural & Ag Business Accelerators](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-farm-bureau-accelerator): Oklahoma Farm Bureau's accelerators for rural and agricultural ventures, with two tracks: AgCelerate Oklahoma for agricultural innovations… - [Pitches, Pizza & Pints](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitches-pizza-pints): The Verge OKC's monthly founder event in Oklahoma City, where entrepreneurs pitch what they are building and an experienced founder shares… - [The Summer Startup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/summer-startup): A weekend event in Oklahoma City where participants try to build a startup from zero to one in 54 hours, with mentorship, cash prizes and… - [Tulsa World](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-world): Tulsa's daily newspaper and news site, covering Tulsa, northeastern Oklahoma and the Green Country region, including local business news. - [O'kra](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okra): Sparkling okra water sold as a functional beauty drink. - [Afro Yoga](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/afro-yoga): A yoga organization. - [Autoimmune AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/autoimmune-ai): A company whose founder appears in Build in Tulsa's founder directory. - [1921 Awards](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/1921-awards): Build in Tulsa's yearly awards, launched in 2023, for Tulsa entrepreneurs who carry on the legacy of Greenwood, once known as Black Wall… Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder