Man, I love your way of thinking! I agree that too many VCs are chasing after meaningless things just to fulfill some vanity metrics. I really hope that firms like Contrary succeed in the long term, to show the market that there are alternatives to the current paradigm.
I've been in the startup space since 2016 and this is the best summary that encapsulates why startups work, but also why the system fails them and itself. It's a vicious cycle.
The quote around finding the gap that also leads to big change is a great one. And I really like Contrary's focus on the individual
I'm gonna shoot my shot here since this write up resonated with me so much, but I'm currently targeting the idea to first customer stage of founders, where there is a clear gap on how the industry guides these individuals. Letting 98% if them down, since the incubator acceptance rate is on avg 2%. We flip the industry standard of passive learning through content for the 98%, and are using a question based approach. Think TurboTax but for startups.
In the end, by collecting the responses to the TurboTax like questions, we are creating a dataset that has 0 survivor-ship bias, insight into the founders and their thought process, and it allows us to create personalized AI and tools for them. This data drives are higher vision of providing tools and streamlining the whole startup space since all of it is based on this startup data... Granted very manually right now.
Startup is Dium (www.startdium.com) if this does pique your interest and we have 64 users for our MVP
Man, I love your way of thinking! I agree that too many VCs are chasing after meaningless things just to fulfill some vanity metrics. I really hope that firms like Contrary succeed in the long term, to show the market that there are alternatives to the current paradigm.
I've been in the startup space since 2016 and this is the best summary that encapsulates why startups work, but also why the system fails them and itself. It's a vicious cycle.
The quote around finding the gap that also leads to big change is a great one. And I really like Contrary's focus on the individual
I'm gonna shoot my shot here since this write up resonated with me so much, but I'm currently targeting the idea to first customer stage of founders, where there is a clear gap on how the industry guides these individuals. Letting 98% if them down, since the incubator acceptance rate is on avg 2%. We flip the industry standard of passive learning through content for the 98%, and are using a question based approach. Think TurboTax but for startups.
In the end, by collecting the responses to the TurboTax like questions, we are creating a dataset that has 0 survivor-ship bias, insight into the founders and their thought process, and it allows us to create personalized AI and tools for them. This data drives are higher vision of providing tools and streamlining the whole startup space since all of it is based on this startup data... Granted very manually right now.
Startup is Dium (www.startdium.com) if this does pique your interest and we have 64 users for our MVP