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Civilization, but where you start a company instead of a country. Here are some analogies: Exploring and collecting goody huts, fighting off barbarians -> goin
by mizzao 4y ago
Civilization, but where you start a company instead of a country. Here are some analogies:
Exploring and collecting goody huts, fighting off barbarians -> going around the idea maze trying to find product market fit
Catherine cozies up to you, then suddenly declares war and sends over a carpet of doom -> Amazon did a bunch of butt sniffing pretending to want to acquire, then decides to copy your product and launch a competitor
Chieftain level: you went to an Ivy league school, have a wealthy parent that is a partner at a Tier 1 VC, and get a free (no equity) 500k angel investment to start off
Immortal level: you are an immigrant who just arrived in US before college. You are working 2 jobs to support your parents and siblings. 1 of your parents is sick. Most of your friends are trying to get rich quick off crypto.
(don't even ask what deity level might be)
I would love to give folks the real startup experience without the risk so they can feel what it's like. I think the challenge here is figuring out what the movement and interpersonal mechanics would be: so much of building a company is about relationships. Perhaps some of it can be procedurally generated, using GPT-3 or similar models. Like when you are trying to negotiate multiple term sheets and the investors try various tactics on you.
Someone posted a vastly simplified version of this earlier: https://startuptrail.engine.is/ https://startuptrail.engine.is/
EDIT: if you're gonna downvote, at least explain why?
- mizzao 4y agoSome more ideas (mostly for future me revisiting this thread): Golden age -> "oxygen is the momentum of a startup"; good culture building unlocks a bunch of superpowers of your employees (like, your growth person generates several 0 CAC strategies or your engineering team surprises you with a different platform: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist) Denouncements: Ryan Breslow accuses you of being part of the Stripe mafia on Twitter