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Ask HN: Any founders want to talk weekly?

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Any founders out their that wants to talk weekly about their struggles and success over chat/zoom?

The catch is you can’t talk about your startup (i.e. no self promotion). You can only talk about your own struggles and success as a founder.

The weekly support group can be anonymous (no video and use avatar names instead of real names)

I will post a google form if enough people are interested.

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I think an important filter for these types of groups is that the founders need to have actual revenue and customers. I've tried to join so many groups but they're full of new founders that have a project, don't have a business yet, and I never get anything out of it because the people ahead of me stop participating.

I never liked groups. I feel like once too many people join, everyone gets lost in the group and people stop participating. What do you think about a 1-1 buddy system? You can post what kind of founder you want to buddy up with (in your case, founders with actual revenue) and both of you simply check up on each other. If one of you stops participating, you can go find another buddy.

If it's audio or text only and no real names I'd be interested.

I came across a founders group few months ago on Discord which has several text and voice channels that are of interest to startup founders. You could try that. There are more than 820 founders there. The link to the Discord server is: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC It is a low noise server, which is a plus I think.

I joined and poked around a bit. No offense, but I wouldn't call that a group of startup founders. It's a group of people who want to be startup founders. That's the problem I've seen with these groups.

Yeah, could be. As I have seen from my couple of engagements there, it is open for everyone who has a startup and those who want to join a startup. There are both for rookies as well as experienced founders.

I don't know how much effect it has on the quality of the community, but I think it would be wrong(and could even be administratively overwhelming to manage that unless it is a paid forum) to exclude people who are new to the startup world.

As long as the Google form doesn't ask for emails or names, I'd be interested.

Where to signup ?

I'm down

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