This is a worthwhile idea and I appreciate you putting it out there. Team formation and skills matching are real bottlenecks. That said, for ideas that fall outside established EA cause areas or existing frameworks, the bigger bottleneck is often upstream of team formation: getting even modest funding to explore feasibility in a rigorous way. Volunteer energy and cross-functional collaboration are valuable, but they tend to dissipate without some resource runway. Your model might be even stronger if it included a pathway for connecting promising early-stage ideas to funders willing to back basic exploration, not just to collaborators.
I think that your addition is indeed a great way to incentivize teams and further encourage/​facilitate action. This brings other questions I’d like to have your input on: 1) Would you suggest to start right away with a ‘full-on’ model that includes different parts or to build the idea piece by piece (e.g. start with cross-functional collaboration only, then add pathways to funding, then maybe something else..) as you go? 2) How would you test for market-fit before committing to an idea? Statistics show that around 34% of new initiatives fail because of that.
This is a worthwhile idea and I appreciate you putting it out there. Team formation and skills matching are real bottlenecks. That said, for ideas that fall outside established EA cause areas or existing frameworks, the bigger bottleneck is often upstream of team formation: getting even modest funding to explore feasibility in a rigorous way. Volunteer energy and cross-functional collaboration are valuable, but they tend to dissipate without some resource runway. Your model might be even stronger if it included a pathway for connecting promising early-stage ideas to funders willing to back basic exploration, not just to collaborators.
Dear Brad,
Thank you so much for the feedback!
I think that your addition is indeed a great way to incentivize teams and further encourage/​facilitate action. This brings other questions I’d like to have your input on: 1) Would you suggest to start right away with a ‘full-on’ model that includes different parts or to build the idea piece by piece (e.g. start with cross-functional collaboration only, then add pathways to funding, then maybe something else..) as you go? 2) How would you test for market-fit before committing to an idea? Statistics show that around 34% of new initiatives fail because of that.
Thanks again for your support :)