are people able to bring their own early-stage startups to the table or is this all from scratch? I just submitted a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280751 and the idea of bringing a project like that to a group is intriguing.

I was working on a similar startup 5 years ago (defunct, called crowdformed) where a group of people would come together to build apps and share in the ownership (like quirky.com for apps). So, I'm a big fan of this type of model, I'll keep an eye on your startup.