My current guess is that there’s not actually that much room for high-impact startups. It’s really, really hard to successfully create a C-corp, let alone optimizing for strategy at the same time. Now that there is significant money available for nonprofit ventures, it seems much less of a draw than it used to.
There are almost no ideas I have for what very useful startups would look like, at least things that I wouldn’t expect could be more effective as nonprofits (at least for the first few years).
Happy to be proven wrong of course! Also happy to provide feedback on specific ideas if people are interested.
I have the reverse intuition here. I think that in general while optimizing profit doesn’t make sense, creating sustainable business models that fund their own growth provides many opportunities for impact that simply taking other peoples money doesn’t.
My current guess is that there’s not actually that much room for high-impact startups. It’s really, really hard to successfully create a C-corp, let alone optimizing for strategy at the same time. Now that there is significant money available for nonprofit ventures, it seems much less of a draw than it used to.
There are almost no ideas I have for what very useful startups would look like, at least things that I wouldn’t expect could be more effective as nonprofits (at least for the first few years).
Happy to be proven wrong of course! Also happy to provide feedback on specific ideas if people are interested.
I have the reverse intuition here. I think that in general while optimizing profit doesn’t make sense, creating sustainable business models that fund their own growth provides many opportunities for impact that simply taking other peoples money doesn’t.