The more we talk to founders, the more we think we can help. In addition to our existing accelerator program, we want to develop a variety of new initiatives, programs or products that help founders.
A few ideas we are interested in (but not limited too!) are..
- Co-Founder Matching – There’s a disproportionate number of solo founders in Southeast Asia. We don’t have anything against solo founders but it’s tough. We happen to meet a large number of solo founders and often think there must be something we can do to increase the serendipity of solo founders meeting each other.
- Validation Boot Camp – We probably reject about half of the applications to our program because they haven’t properly validated their idea. There’s often very simple things they could have done (simpler than what they did) to validate their idea and it almost never involves building anything. We’d like to teach founders how to do that.
- Investor Database – A common problem among first-time founders is they don’t know any investors. Furthermore, they don’t even know who they should talk (stage, check size, etc.). Through our Demo Day and our network, we know most of the investors in Southeast Asia and in the US. We’d like to create an investor database that anyone can filter and search for investors that might be interested in their startup.
Our only constraint is finding someone to work on them. That’s where you come in. We need a scrappy, organized, ambitious generalist who can design and iterate on new projects, programs and initiatives. You’ll work directly with Brian and Hsu Ken to develop initiatives to help founders across the community. If you love experimenting and building, you’re going to love this.
What You'll Do
- Identify Problems – Figure out what keeps people from becoming founders and when they are founders, what keeps them from being successful.
- Design a Solution – Based on the problems you identify, design and develop a solution. You’ll work closely with Brian and Hsu Ken but also other Iterative founders and the broader community.
- Launch – Develop a plan to get your solution in the hands of your target users. You’re free to leverage our existing following, etc. but it’s likely you’ll need to reach a group of people we aren’t currently engaged with.
- Execute – Do whatever is necessary to make sure your initiative is well-organized and executed properly. We’re okay with experimenting and being wrong but we think it should always be executed well.
- Iterate – Collect feedback and continue to iterate on your initiative after launch. We’d love to see you build something even more helpful than our core program!
What You'll Bring
- Has strong experience building MVPs.
- Has ability to build products themselves (either with code/engineering, or no-code tools)
- Extremely versatile skillset – utility player who can work across a wide variety of project scopes.
- Strong intuition on product vision, design, and go-to-market strategy.
- Comfortable in ambiguity, where you'll often need to write the playbook, rather than follow an existing one. Helpful if have experience getting projects off the ground.
- High output, execution, and hustle – an ability to own all operations, and an eagerness to dive into the nitty-gritty
- Interest in learning and working in our no-code infrastructure