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!

  • ParagoneEnglish
    2·
    24 days ago

    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.worksOP
      1·
      22 days ago

      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!