ABOUTwhat other accelerators actually make founders do week by week (start.coop, YC, Founder Institute) plus confirmed book authors2026-08-05urn:abra:local:golda
Research for the workers.vc week-one rewrite (Taiga #28, partial). Start.coop: 10-16 week cooperative business curriculum, 'Lean Co-op Methodology', current Worker-Friendly Media accelerator is 11 live workshops plus an in-person week, run with MEDLab and Defector Media. YC Startup School: ~7 weeks, assumes you are already building; on early adopters it says focus on them rather than convincing uninterested leads, build a small exclusive channel for them, find them at conferences via attendee lists, and interview for the PROBLEM not the solution. Founder Institute publishes the most concrete public week-by-week: kickoff, vision, validation, model, development, idea review, formation, launch, traction, fundraising, demo day, each with named deliverables. Common week-one pattern across programs: biggest version of the idea, validate a real customer problem, name personal purpose, first pitch. Our differentiator that none of them have: step zero is finding who already does it and being able to invite them in as earned-equity co-owners. Books confirmed: Talking to Humans (Giff Constable); Technology for Good (Jim Fruchterman, Benetech founder, MIT Press) which is what golda meant by 'Jim Procterman, tech for good'.