I'm starting a discord server for early-stage founders to help each other out by sharing resources, feedback, connections, and co-working together. It's free, and everyone is personally vetted by me for good vibes (low-ego, no-BS). I want to grow with other people who are searching for a supportive founder community outside of SF.
I've applied to YC like... 6 times now. I run a profitable (a little more than ramen-profitable) B2C startup. One of the biggest things that's helped me along so far is other founders, giving feedback, sharing advice and resources, and spreading the word.
Not getting into YC shouldn't prevent us from having access to an amazing founder network.
So I've created a discord startup for early-stage founders to help each other out. It's free, and personally vetted by me for good vibes (low-ego, no-BS). I'm super excited to grow with other people who are searching for a great founder community outside of SF.
Lack of research is not the bottleneck here. Having worked with a Canadian environmental non-profit on ecological impact assessment (how are natural events interconnected, how effective are our environmental efforts), the problem of natural disaster prevention is moreso a problem of political and economic will than actual science/modelling/data.
For example, there are obvious things you can do to reduce flash flooding and wildfire risk and damage, but government/taxpayers/corporations are often unwilling to take these measures since they:
- are expensive, though eventually more than make up their worth in disasters averted and scale of disaster reduced
- are not immediate fixes, since they usually involve restoring ecological health i.e. forests, rivers, ecosystems
- are not guaranteed to prevent disasters - only reduce their occurrence and severity
- generally involve reducing the "development" (sprawl) of cities and the "productivity" (unsustainable practices) of big farms
I hope this summer increases environmental disaster prevention budgets everywhere. May the Ministry of the Future wet bulb event never happen.