Also just copying unedited a related rough note to self I made on my own list of potential entrepreneurial projects (but which I’m very unlikely to ever actually work on myself)
Impact-focused red-teaming, consultancy, and feedback marketplace
Problem I faced as a founder: Often making decisions where I would have loved external input but felt reluctant because I didn’t want to ask people for favours, and didn’t necessarily know who I could ask other than my personal network.
Solution: a platform like Fiverr or similar where people willing to give feedback and advice are listed with a description of their interests/background, their hourly rate, plus a bunch of tags (e.g. cause area, experience type) so that people can filter by types of role.
Probably take a % cut of the fees. E.g. Fiverr system: “Service fees are 5.5% of the purchase amount. For purchases under $100, an additional $3.00 small order fee will be applied.” Maybe also add some minimum amount, in case people want to list their services for free, e.g. we always charge minimum $1 per hour of service performed. (I think maybe we could get away with charging a lot higher rates than Fiverr though, like 10% or 20%. E.g. if someone is willing to pay $50 for 2 hours of review from someone, they’re probably willing to pay $60
Later could potentially expand into a broader freelancing type platform.
Misc idea: crowdsource ratings of how well the job was done by a bunch of different criteria, and encourage ACCURACY in the ratings. Batch the ratings in groups of 5 to help anonymise the source of the rating and thereby reduce embarassment for not giving wholly positive ratings.
Downside: Probably pretty small volumes of money. E.g. a person read-teaming a doc for 2 hours might only charge ~$50, of which we would get ~$5. So we’d need to achieve a really high usage volume for it to become financially self-sustaining and justify the time on the setup.
[I’m sharing partly because my “Misc idea” seems like it could help with the problem you highlight.]
Also just copying unedited a related rough note to self I made on my own list of potential entrepreneurial projects (but which I’m very unlikely to ever actually work on myself)
[I’m sharing partly because my “Misc idea” seems like it could help with the problem you highlight.]