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c/startups · by dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 176d

Calling all founders

I thought I'd have a go at reviving a dormant community, and see if there are any other founders or entrepreneurs out in the Fediverse.

Just founded my first company after a long stint in the tech industry working for others. It's been exhausting, fun, maddening and humbling.

We just had the honor of being rejected by Y Combinator yesterday for the S26 batch but we're undaunted and using it as an opportunity to double down on building and getting traction!

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Paragone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d (3 replies)

Founder/startup resources:

  • "Founder's Dilemmas"
  • "Slicing Pie Handbook", on equity-allocation
  • "Disciplined Entrepreneurship" for any tech-startup
  • "Lead Right For Your Company's TYPE", but flipped upside-right: 2x2 Matrix is TOP=Potential ; BOTTOM=Concrete ; LEFT=People-centric ; RIGHT=Task-centric, & all the which-management-process-go-where is worth its weight in gold
  • "Tribal Leadership" by Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright, on the 5 culture-levels, & their consequences
  • "Business Model Generation"
  • "Super Thinking", on mental-models
  • Jerry Weissman's trilogy on presenting
  • Truby's "The Anatomy of Genres", because if you don't understand the 14 genres, & their dimensions-of-mind, then you probably aren't competent to understand how to market your product/service to YOUR customers.
  • "Customer Centricity", on the RIGHT customers, not the idiotic "everybody is my customer" delusion
  • "The 1-Page Marketing Plan"
  • "Command Attention: Promote your Organization the Marine Corps Way"
  • "Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines", Mom's favorite principle "tell them the end-state, & tell them why, *and then get out of their hair & let them do it their own way!" ( not that she could do that, herself, for others.. )
  • "The 50 Economic Indicators That Matter", or something like that, WSJ
  • anything good on Buffet-style value-investing.

I may edit this later, but those are the crucial ones, just off the top of my head..

Better success through more-competent understanding, eh?

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dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 174d

Definitely. Always learning!

I've found the Founders Pocket Guide series by Stephen Poland particularly useful. It's a three part set covering valuation, term sheets and cap tables. As a technical founder, this isn't my native territory!

dparticiple@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 172d (1 reply)

Paragone, are you working on anything interesting?

Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 108d

A not-for-profit keiretsu-of-keiretsu.

the most-involved business-plan this planet has ever encountered.

Multiphase, obviously..

2026, publishing some stuff, aquiring a market "face".

Then pull-paradigm creating whichever component of my vast business-plan it is, that traction exists for.

A keiretsu is essentially a country-made-of-companies, or an organism-whose-organs-are-companies.

Panasonic is a horizontal-keiretsu, Toyota is vertical.

Horizontal-keiretsu are marketshare effective, vertical-keiretsu are profit efficient.

I'm targetting making horizontal-keiretsu efficient.

But a keiretsu is a semi-autonomous-economy ( hence they are less-affected by market-swings, bubbles & crashes ).

Chris Argyris wrote on 'em, in one of his Blackwell Business encyclopedias..

Imagine a network-of-companies who are all public-benefit companies or not-for-profit companies, making certain that all the nationally-required economic components are present & operating...

No for-profit-company can remove the country's bus-line, or the country's passenger-rail, or the country's supermarket-availability, because we will own part of every domain.

Machiavellian profiteering butchering lives? We'll be competing against them.

Enforcing market-honesty, see?

Making our countries robust to monopoly-failures, too.

It's interesting, but .. I don't think anybody'd care, until it's actually opererating, & that isn't going to happen until late 2026, at the earliest.

Just sit back & enjoy the show, if it ever becomes real..

The ocean-of-understandings required to prevent normal-wrong-architectures .. has been staggering to earn, through decades..

It doesn't take long to earn an MBA, but to earn enough to do what I"m working-on, took autistic-decades of study.

& don't worry: if it does launch, it'll be noticeable: you'll see it.

In the mean time, others are worth paying attention to, & just ignore me, until launch happens.

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