We are focused on posting a new series of sprints on planning, strategizing, branding and financing your startup. We are aiming to have these ready for you by the end of January.

We are also working on getting our membership events humming as we will be offering our first Office Hours and a live webinar in January.

Yes it does. The key concept underpinning our work is The Fundamental Principle of Entrepreneurship: Successful entrepreneurs make some group of people so happy that they are gladly given money in return.

Non-profits startups should consider their donors to be their customers and the people who receive their services as their users. This is different from most* for-profits where the customer is the user.

Relative to the Fundamental Principle of Entrepreneurship: non-profit entrepreneurs must make their donors so happy about how they take care of their users that the donors gladly give donations for them to do so.

* Note that the non-profit business model is also the same as an advertising funded business model. Advertisers pay firms like tv stations and entrepreneurs such as influencers to make their viewers happy enough that they gladly engage with their content that features their product or service.

We are asked all the time: how good is the advice you can get from an AI LLM? We are very aware of what startup advice you can get from AI, we check it constantly because it is changing constantly. The challenge is that the big AI models all give you generic advice based upon what their trainers think.

This is problematic for four reasons:

• Generic advice delivers you no competitive advantage, which is death for a startup,

• AI models are trained to tell you with answers that you will like. Being a successful entrepreneur always requires someone to transcend what they think they know and want to know.

• AI is not cautious with their advice (at least as of now) and in every test we’ve given has told the person to launch their business ASAP, in very specific ways that may not be consistent with what would be best for the individual and their motivations, and in ways that yield no competitive advantage and would therefore not work unless the person never slept.

• Everyone’s entrepreneurial journey is unique. The key is to deliver insights into specific issues and challenges each individual is facing at that instant for turning their idea into a reality. No amount of prompting can get a LLM to give someone the specific advice, for the specific situation, based upon the specific characteristics of an entrepreneur and their strengths and weaknesses that require specific mitigations.

How we help you is architected so that you choose which sessions, in which order are interesting and relevant for you and where you are in your journey.

The specifics of our inputs will therefore be very different depending on the type of business, the novelty of the idea, the nature of existing and potential competitors, among many other factors. And key activities like testing your idea with potential customers apply to almost all types of businesses, irrespective of their technological content.