I guess I have technically already started, but I'm going to use this space to officially start this project, because starting will involve just getting a lot of stuff out of my head and onto a page.
I technically started because I bought a domain name and a Notion page in my personal Notion workspace. There's not much in the latter, however.
### Sections
- process
- architecture
- decision making at every level
- leading teams
### Market
- people who did bootcamp 2-3 years ago
- "now you got your job, how do you level up?"
- leveling up
- senior title
- better job
### The Basic Idea
- $5000 for 12 month program
- 1x 1hr group meeting per week
- ad-hoc mentoring sessions
- include N hours in plan, no limit on additional paid hours
- let mentors set their rate
- ~$100/hr of live sessions (52)
- include egghead membership in plan
- or make it a required purchase
- + books they'll have to buy
- + other non-egghead courses they'll have to buy
- run 10 person cohorts every month
- $50k/month
- $600k/year
I also have a Notion database with some useful references.
https://80000hours.org/career-planning/article/
https://seniormindset.com/
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
https://altmba.com/
https://www.minicamp.fun/
https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_/status/1349781212022366208
And now I have a Logseq page for quickly getting things down.
https://interintellect.com/
https://hyperlink.academy/
https://www.platohq.com/
I'm hoping for a better name to come to me before I'm ready to launch.
I'm hoping to launch with something really low-effort and low-commitment. That will probably mean running a free version of this as a alpha test. That alpha test will have to be significantly shorter than the year-long planned program. Maybe 3 months? That's essentially 12 sessions.
This doesn't scale into a SaaS. It scales in the sense that once the curriculum is written it will just require constant gardening and refinement. I could also outsource the instruction / group facilitation.
It certainly doesn't scale in the sense of economies-of-scale. There will be a logical limit to how many people I could pump through this program per year, and assuming fully booked at what I estimate to be a reasonable monthly cohort maximum, it still only qualifies as a small lifestyle business.
I'm ok with all of that.
I technically started because I bought a domain name and a Notion page in my personal Notion workspace. There's not much in the latter, however.
### Sections
- process
- architecture
- decision making at every level
- leading teams
### Market
- people who did bootcamp 2-3 years ago
- "now you got your job, how do you level up?"
- leveling up
- senior title
- better job
### The Basic Idea
- $5000 for 12 month program
- 1x 1hr group meeting per week
- ad-hoc mentoring sessions
- include N hours in plan, no limit on additional paid hours
- let mentors set their rate
- ~$100/hr of live sessions (52)
- include egghead membership in plan
- or make it a required purchase
- + books they'll have to buy
- + other non-egghead courses they'll have to buy
- run 10 person cohorts every month
- $50k/month
- $600k/year
I also have a Notion database with some useful references.
https://80000hours.org/career-planning/article/
https://seniormindset.com/
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
https://altmba.com/
https://www.minicamp.fun/
https://twitter.com/ceeoreo_/status/1349781212022366208
And now I have a Logseq page for quickly getting things down.
https://interintellect.com/
https://hyperlink.academy/
https://www.platohq.com/
I'm hoping for a better name to come to me before I'm ready to launch.
I'm hoping to launch with something really low-effort and low-commitment. That will probably mean running a free version of this as a alpha test. That alpha test will have to be significantly shorter than the year-long planned program. Maybe 3 months? That's essentially 12 sessions.
This doesn't scale into a SaaS. It scales in the sense that once the curriculum is written it will just require constant gardening and refinement. I could also outsource the instruction / group facilitation.
It certainly doesn't scale in the sense of economies-of-scale. There will be a logical limit to how many people I could pump through this program per year, and assuming fully booked at what I estimate to be a reasonable monthly cohort maximum, it still only qualifies as a small lifestyle business.
I'm ok with all of that.
Hopefully I'll get to hear about your sustained ambition after your recent exit/sale tomorrow in our call.
This looks cool by the way!