Blimey. Did you check with CE about offering it as part of their incubation program (funded by them, maybe paid by results as you say)? And/or other incubators like Catalyze, or fellowship programs (not founders per se) like Constellation? (IIRC they have an affiliated executive coach already)
I’m surprised by “I don’t really want a grant” though. E.g. the usual process is basically seed funding grant to check/demonstrate progress --> if you achieve that (or seem on track to), you get renewed funding. The mechanism isn’t perfect (maybe you can BS your way to success or you aren’t funded without good reasons), but it’s at least ideally fairly results based.
(I’d be inclined to agree that ideally the founders/participants themselves would pay, but if you have evidence that they are “irrationally self-sacrificial” and will continue to underpay for the service relative to what they’d endorse themselves with hindsight etc, then that seems like a decent case for grant funding.)
Blimey. Did you check with CE about offering it as part of their incubation program (funded by them, maybe paid by results as you say)? And/or other incubators like Catalyze, or fellowship programs (not founders per se) like Constellation? (IIRC they have an affiliated executive coach already)
I’m surprised by “I don’t really want a grant” though. E.g. the usual process is basically seed funding grant to check/demonstrate progress --> if you achieve that (or seem on track to), you get renewed funding. The mechanism isn’t perfect (maybe you can BS your way to success or you aren’t funded without good reasons), but it’s at least ideally fairly results based.
(I’d be inclined to agree that ideally the founders/participants themselves would pay, but if you have evidence that they are “irrationally self-sacrificial” and will continue to underpay for the service relative to what they’d endorse themselves with hindsight etc, then that seems like a decent case for grant funding.)