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classic Sina pitching LL like it's the work of his life (spoiler: it is indeed *a* work of his life). join him and a bunch of hardcore founders like him, there are only upsides to being surrounded by such cracked founders

LL Library is live :) library dot learningloop dot com (or click on link in comments)

At LL (short of LearningLoop.com), we form small groups of 3 for every member who joins us and setup weekly office peer to peer hour calls with you (same 3 people, 1 hour every week to chat about growth and your week, to maximize luck and belonging). We also give you a curated founder community always there to help you, functionally and emotionally. Back story LL's 3-person peer group + weekly peer-to-peer office hours are designed to mimic something that most YC founders do after they go thru YC. During YC, every founder gets weekly check-ins with a dedicated YC partner every week where the partners ask you "did you grow 5-10% this week? if yes why? if no why?". founders also get dinner nights in groups of 6 every week.this both helps founders grow their startups faster, and it also gives founders friends to be vulnerable with.when YC ends, founders typically form small peer groups of 3 and continue checking in on each other weekly for months and sometimes a year after YC. How we form every member's journey upon signing up we'll kickstart your loop (aka your peer group) this with an icebreaking call where the 3 of you answer a few questions to each other. these questions become increasingly deeper, and they're designed to build trust and context between the 3 of you, so that from week 2 onwards you can feel understood by each other and support each other both functionally and emotionally. we do this with minimum effort and cognitive load from your end, since founder time is so expensive. No-show policy We are pretty strict about no-shows. Any member who can't make it to a call must communicate it in their group asap, to avoid wasting other members' time. 3 no-shows in a row without communications gets a member banned from LL. Want your founder peer group and office hours setup? Join LL today! Sign up or DM us to chat

you don’t need to be lucky to get lucky as a startup. Luck has 4 sources: 1. Sheer motion 2. Motion as a consequence of a specific curiosity 3. Expertise 4. Curiosity and/or expertise, pursued or practiced full time, relentlessly. check out our blog post to learn more about these different types of luck and how you get to create them for yourself and your startup as a founder https://lnkd.in/gFUyauR6

When you build a startup in stealth mode, you risk losing a lot of luck (talent, customers, investors and the world not knowing about your existence). The best way to offset the luck you lose when you build in stealth is to have a private founder mafia. it's like building in public, but in private! we wrote a blog post about it, check it out https://lnkd.in/gsPjy4hK

our member Raymond Yeh building Wisp organized an AI jam session yesterday where some members shared their latest AI workflows/tools and questions. super high leverage to access the best findings of the best founders in one session

Brutally honest thoughts on stealth startups A lot of people in tech are starting to think about the practical pros and cons of building their own startup. Naturally you'd think about the cash runway, the chance of success vs failure, the risk it imposes on your family and lifestyle and many other things. One common mental blocker that I notice in this thought process is around the idea of "building in stealth" as opposed to building in public. Most startup content are written for those who build in public, after all. In fact, there's an article about how founders should be "dinner party jerks" and talk about their startup aggressively at any chance you get. So I thought it might be useful to talk about stealth startups a bit. Here's a disclaimer: we actually don't think it's a good idea to run a stealth startup if you can be public about it, but we do think it's possible to build in stealth and win if you absolutely need. Check out our latest blog post to read more (link in comments)

don't fit the mold of startup accelerators? join LearningLoop.com last week we started a campaign to find 30 smart and ambitious founders to onboard to LL. we built LL for ourselves and other founders who don’t exactly fit the mold of startup accelerators (or maybe attended one but now feel they're not getting much from their accelerator anymore) but are still super hardcore and driven and have that dog in them for years to come. we got 5 (10 minutes ago it was 4) brilliant new members so far since then. our new community manager charlene is onboarding them and arranging 1v1 icebreaking calls with a few members (we dont just dump people in a dead group chat) we'd love to onboard you too if you’re down. are you? comment or sign up on our website :) last week we offboarded nearly 20 inactive paying members!! yes, we have a policy that requires every member to selfishly write an honest reflection once a month, so that other people can see what’s top of mind for you and send you leads/resources/luck. we offboard members who dont participate in the sharing (either because they’ve moved on from their business or they reached product market fit after 1-2 years of membership and are rich now) so that only active and hungry members who are in war mode stick around. this isn't a punishment, but more like a graduation. price for post-revenue/funding founders ($1500/year, the cheapest in our category compared to YPO, EO, Chief, Hampton and Vistage, yet most optmized for pre-seed to pre series A founders). price for pre revenue/funding founders: pick the highest price that you can afford that doesn’t hurt you, that’ll be fair to you and us since we put genuine effort into this every week and need to always optimize for profit and a 12/10 experience. lets get it share/react to this pls to maximize more founders luck 🍀

our founder community LearningLoop.com has become super mature and resourceful since i first started it in september 2022. everyone in it now has more revenue, more battle scars, more intensity but also more humility, openness and compassion in their journey, and honestly every time i check our community these days, it makes my day. we're looking to acquire 30 new members (seed to series A startup founders anywhere in the world) over the next month. do you wanna join / do you know a founder who should? lets connect! this community started off as the test user group for the software i wanted to build (which later became integralhq dot com), but somewhere along the way the community itself turned out to be a great offering on its own. today, the members and i want LL to become the world’s best founder community in the next 10 years. one that is managed completely by the members (founders) and not gatekept by accelerators or VCs. we want this in the world because we know too many high potential people who don’t live in startup hubs and may not have the chance to just move to another continent/country right away. so we wanna equalize startup opportunities, friendships and luck universally. what to expect from the community feed whether it’s someone voluntarily sharing their big/small win in our #celebrate channel, or writing in our #grieve channel, or launching something new in the #build channel, or seeing people organize their own in-person or online meetups in #events, or sharing #memes or rare PDFs in #learn channel, it always reminds me that this is what i have always wanted. A hardcore, moderated and founder engaged community, genuine friendships that outlast products, business models and ideas, and frequent conversations that make you 10x more resourceful, more creative and more productive. our membership fee is US$1500/year for startup founders with revenue/funding. founders who are living on the edge can join on a discount, too on a case by case basis. i've lived on the edge for too long to discriminate exclusively based on pricing. you can go to our website to sign up  (or leave a comment/DM me if you’re pre-revenue/funding and can’t afford the membership fee. Pick a price that’s fair for you and us and we'll get you started) to help more startups find out about this community and maximize their luck, do you mind liking/commenting pls? 🙏 i really appreciate it ❤️ thanks

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