diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 83a3db4..6d6174d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -255,8 +255,6 @@ people discover and _do_ what they love. - - # tl;dr We like to think of **`home`** as a "***Pre-YC***" @@ -841,9 +839,9 @@ who co-organises http://opened.ai We intend to use robots for as much domestic work as possible to both alleviate the burden of "chores" and -Initially this will be confined to a robotic vaccuum cleaner, -but - +Initially this will be confined to a robotic vacuum cleaner, +but with a Hardware Hacking Lab in the basement, we expect +at least one of our members to get creative with this. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index ee92e1d..74ed1f8 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ - - + Home Project Overview - - {content} + +
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Project/Company Name: home1

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1 home is our "working title"; we open to suggestions! +We have discussed crowd-sourcing the name from our community, +but for now, this is easier and it kinda "works" for what we are doing. +There is built-in "brand recognition" +in the common expression "Working from home".

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URL: https://dwyl.com/home

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Company URL

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Note: this is a suggestion. +I intend to make this doc available as a "landing page" on +https://dwyl.com/home +If you have a better idea, please advise! +I don't have a "strong preference" was just being pragmatic.

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Description

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We are a Female Founder-Focussed Co-Living/Learning Home [57 characters]

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We have worked in the technology industry in several roles +from everything from non-profit and 2-10 person micro co +to 100k person mega-corp and high-growth startup: 100 >> 10k growth.
+We have worked in, advised and trained people for several startups. +We feel we have a grasp of what it takes to run a successful technology startup. +(though we expect to gain significantly more wisdom on the subject through +participating in Startup School and possibly YC's "main" program) +We have lived the "digital nomad" (remote working) lifestyle and +know what the biggest challenges are.

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We want to be on this stage in a a few years time +and we want to help accelerate the ascent of other female founders.

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image +@iteles practicing her public speaking at St. Andrews Enterprise week:

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+via: https://standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk/st-andrews-university-enterprise-week-2017-keynote-event

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Vertical

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We feel that the "vertical" category that most reflects our project +is "community" closely followed by "diversity".

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There are 36 options for "Vertical" on the Startup School form see: +https://github.com/nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io/issues/511#issuecomment-412265192

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home does not "neatly fit" into anyone of them +rather it encompasses several:

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Make

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What is your company going to make? <textarea maxlength="200">

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home is a female founder focussed co-living/learning house +where people live, learn & work on "something people want". +By-product: Mobile App for community, door-access, lights & resource sharing. +[197 chars]

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Getting this down to 200 characters is hard...!!

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Had to cut:

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We intend to use Wifi/BLE beacons to give location-contextual UI +to the users so they get relevant info through the home +e.g: light switches, curtains, teleconference room bookings +and kitchen/bathroom availability. +People will share recipes (public or private) +and meal plans (house-specific) inviting others to partake in meals!

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Why?

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Why did you pick this to work on? <textarea maxlength="250">

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home is what we wish we had when we started in the tech industry. +A place to meet, live and learn with peers +and a mentoring/support network throughout our career. +We are passionate about fostering the next generation of tech +workers & founders.

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Commitment: Full-time

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Are you currently part-time or full-time on this startup?

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Options available:

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<select class="select required" name="company[commitment]" id="company_commitment">
+<option value=""></option>
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+  | <option value="full_time">Full Time (40+ hours a week)</option>
+  | <option value="part_time">Part Time (20+ hours a week)</option>
+  | <option value="other_commitment">Other</option></select>
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If there was an option for "double-full-time" i.e. 80+ hours/week, +we would pick that.
+For the foreseeable future, home is our life!

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Progress: Idea

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Which of the following best describes your progress?

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<select class="select required" name="company[stage]" id="company_stage">
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+  | <option value="nothing">Nothing Built</option>
+  | <option value="idea">Idea/sketches</option>
+  | <option value="mocks">Mocks/Renderings</option>
+  | <option value="prototype">Prototype/pre-launch</option>
+  | <option value="private_beta">Private Beta</option>
+  | <option value="public_beta">Public Beta</option>
+  | <option value="preorders">Taking Preorders</option>
+  | <option value="launched">Launched</option></select>
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Given that our project involves a physical building +which is still "under construction", +we intend to use the Startup School time to start building the Mobile App (PWA) +which will be used by the people staying in home.

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We expect the building works to be done by the end of September +and the first "MVP" members to join us in October 2018.

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The option that most accurately reflects the progress of our App is "Idea". +There isn't really an option in the list for "building site". +But we have a team of professional construction workers and tradesmen +taking care of the physical building so we feel that part is "on track".

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How Far Along?

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The first home building is 65% construction-complete. +(Architect designs & progress photos on website) +We have built several components of our Mobile App (PWA) +but do not yet have an MVP we can test with users; +we plan to make it during Startup School. [249 chars]

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Incorporated: No

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Have you incorporated your company?* [yes/no]

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For the purposes of the "Co-living" project, +we do not have a dedicated company for home. +Until now we have been funding it through operating cashflow/surplus +from our existing company (@dwyl) as well as personal equity.

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We are open to advice whether we should form a new company +(we are leaning towards a new company...) +we have a "four-letter-dotcom" domain: dwyl.com +and the corresponding "social accounts" e.g: https://twitter.com/dwyl +which we feel would be a "waste" to abandon.

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If our advisors think we can "pivot" (repurpose) the @dwyl brand +we'd be happy to do that.

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There is some "overlap", given that home is helping +people discover and do what they love.

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tl;dr

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We like to think of home as a "Pre-YC" +place to learn creative/coding skills, +discover like-minded people and focus on solving big problems.

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home is not a "coding bootcamp" like "FullStack Academy" (YC S12) +and it's not an AirBnB (YC W09) it's +more akin to a Recurse Center (YC S10) https://www.recurse.com/ +(self-directed learning) +meets cost-effective "high-end hostel". +with privacy and plenty of space to think, exercise and work.

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Our aim is to help people have a solid foundation +to launch into a career in tech +either as an engineer or founder!

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We believe that having a female-founder-focus +is essential for achieving "balance" in the tech industry +and is congruent with YC's mission.

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We are planning to have a "hack space" or "Design & Technology Lab" +which is a 50m2 filled with prototyping tools/machines +including a Laser cutter, CNC machine, 3D printers and wide range of +tools for making furniture, electronics projects and other "hardware hacking".

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Please give us a space on Startup School +so that we can benefit from mentorship and +be part of your incredible network.

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Thank you!

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WARNING: Below this point is "Work-in-Progress" for "internal purposes". 🚧

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We have made it public in the interest of "transparency", +but please don't read it if you are +in any way "critical" of embryonic ideas that are not "polished" in a "deck".

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Why?

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working-from-home
+http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html > Workplaces

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What?

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The saying goes: home is "where the heart is".
+We intend to extend this definition to include:

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During Startup School we intend to build the App +to help us measure everything in the home community.

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Areas we are hoping to explore include:

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As you can tell from this list, we have "lots of ideas".
+We want/need Help/Mentoring from a YC partner +to know where to focus our attention.

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Female Focussed?

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We intend to direct all of our content towards female founders +because we feel they are an underserved group. +YC's demographics https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-demographics +indicate that fewer than 25% of startups have one or more female founders:

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"_Of the founders we funded in our most recent batch, +11.1% of the founders are women +(about 23% of the startups have one or more female founders), +3.7% of the founders are Hispanic, and 4% of the founders are Black. " +"The bad news, of course, is that applicant percentages +are low relative to the entire population."

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We want to be part of the solution to this: +https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/20/y-combinator-diversity-2017

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This is a problem we have personally felt while working in Tech. +And it's one our female members continue to feel as tech +is still overwhelmingly male-dominated +and still has "bad apples" spoiling it for others.

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Will We Exclude Men?

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No, we have no intention of excluding or making men +(or people who identify as male or non-binary) feel "unwelcome", +much to the contrary, +everyone is welcome regardless gender, ethnicity/race, sex, +politics or religion.

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The only pre-requisites are that:

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"Sexism in tech is real." ~ Sam Altman +https://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups

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Female founders and tech workers often feel "unwelcome" +in a male-dominated world, we are going address this head on.

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From our experience in the Tech Industry, +both running Founders & Coders and Working as Developers/Engineers +in several companies, +we have seen/felt first-hand how a small minority of men +are condescending/intimidating towards ladies and minorities, +we will address this

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One Metric That Matters ["OMTM"]: Happiness

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“It really is true, the company will build +whatever the CEO decides to measure.” ~ Sam Altman +via: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/47-quotes-from-sam-altman-on-building-a-great-product-51aa656952ab

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Our short-to medium-term metric is "Happiness". +We want to make "Happiness" our primary KPI because +we know that by measuring and optimising for happiness first +any other goals will be achievable.

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We realise that "Happiness" is a subjective measure +however we intend to make it quantifiable +in the same way that there is a "World Happiness Report": +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report +we intend to do that for our company/project +and make it available for others too!

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This does not mean there won't be disagreements and even conflicts. +What it means is that everyone involved knows what we are "optimising for", +and can act accordingly.

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We have already begun to make some progress on this. +see: https://github.com/dwyl/feedback +It's our anonymous MVP on: https://dwyl-feedback.herokuapp.com/feedback/new +feedback-form

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A variant on measuring Happiness is measuring the extent to which +people are "Doing What You Love". +We believe in this strongly to the extent that our current company +is called "DWYL" ... see: https://github.com/dwyl/start-here

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The reason we are not trying to measure "dwyl-ness" +is because sometimes to do something you love, +you have to fund it doing a job you don't necessarily love. +PG put it best:

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"The test of whether people love what they do is whether +they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it even if they +had to work at another job to make a living." +"How To Do What You Love" http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html Paul Graham, 2006

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Some of the people living/working at home will fall into the category +of "work at another job", +so measuring their overall happiness is a more accurate metric.

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Why "It Will Never Work" (Risks and Mitigation)

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There are several risks of creating a co-living home/community +any of which can "sink the ship", we need to be aware of and address them all.

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From our background in "Enterprise Risk Management", +we are trained to think in terms of hyperbolic headlines +and worst-case scenarios.

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This list is ordered in terms of their probability and potential impact:

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If you can help us think of and address any other risks, +we would love to hear from you!

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Getting Traction: Revenue & Customer Feedback

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In the short term we want to focus on building our App. +In order to test the App we need users. +To get these users we intend to use the following channels:

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MVP: AirBnB Listing

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To generate initial demand +(and get "MVP customer feedback") we intend to use AirBnB. +We will keep the amount of detail on our AirBnB listing to a minimum +to "underpromise and over deliver" +and hopefully people will be pleasantly surprised when they arrive.

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We will incorporate the feedback of people who find us through AirBnB +into our App and ask people for reviews on Google, TripAdvisor and to post +pictures on their "Social".

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We have experience of both listing and "consuming" on AirBnB. +(see: "Experience in Real Estate?" section below)

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Digital Nomad Girls (DNG)

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We are friends of Jenny at https://digitalnomadgirls.com +a network of female-only "Digital Nomads" (remote workers) +who either have their own micro-business +or work for someone else remotely.
+Reach: Fb: 8.8K, Insta: 24.9k, +Tw: 4.5k (August 2018).

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We intend to offer places "at cost" to members of DNG +because they are lovely people who share our vision +and we know they will help fuel our organic/social traffic +by mentioning (linking to) us on their travel blogs, Instagram and YouTube.

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Our Existing Social Networks

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Inês is a co-organiser of Ladies of Code (London) +https://www.meetup.com/Ladies-of-Code-UK (3K members) +and has access to other female-focussed Meetup networks. +We intend to leverage these to find people who are able to work remotely, +and invite them to stay with and learn with us.

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Nomad List

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Once we have our basic formula working, +we intend to test running ads on https://nomadlist.com +Our hope is that we get enough "organic" demand +to not need to run ads. +However given how niche/focussed Nomad List is, +we feel that if we need to generate targeted demand, +this is the route we will take.

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Y Combinator Network

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Our ultimate aim is to be part of the Y Combinator Network +because we feel that YC is the best "filter" for the type of people +we want to attract to live, learn and work at home.

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Longer term we plan to build many instances of home around the world, +where prospective YC applicants can meet each other and +form, storm norm & perform +in a controlled environment before they apply to YC. +And current members of YC (both Europe and US founders) +can base their company and not have to think +about laundry, nutrition or bills;

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We believe there is a strong symbiosis between YC's Network and home.

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Who?

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ines-and-nelson

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Inês and Nelson went to the same primary school. +They have been an "item" for 19 years (since age 14!), +business partners for 13 years +(2005 - 2007 and 2013 - present. ) +and married for 1 year. +image

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Why Us?

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"Let's solve our own problem and see where it goes".
+~ Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future +https://youtu.be/nFOC-cgIWaY?t=5m26s

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We have started two companies together a Clothing Company +and an App Development Agency. Both bootstrapped. Both profitable.

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We are using the operating surplus from @dwyl to bootstrap home.

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Experience in Training/Coaching Female Founders & Tech Workers?

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We have a decent amount of experience of training people from scratch +(with no previous experience) to get jobs as developers +or start their own companies. +founders-and-coders-homepage

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Examples of companies founded/grown through Founders & Coders:

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see: https://foundersandcoders.com/about/ +a-way-into-tech-industry-founders-coders

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Experience in Real Estate?

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We have previously bought, renovated and rented out 3 homes and feel +we have learned on "small scale". All our property investments have been +cashflow positive. +In our existing rental properties we only have "young professionals" +who aren't "ready" to buy (either because they are establishing themselves +or unsure if they want to live in the particular city long-term) +we consistently charge below "market rate" and offer above average +fixtures/fittings and amenities. Our below "market clearing price" +means we are flooded with "applicants" +each time someone decides to "move on", +which means the other housemates get to chose from a wide pool of potential. +This has been a "win-win" strategy over the last 7 years and we intend to +adapt it to home.

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This is a sample of one of our AirBnB listings in London:

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Our listing is "unlisted" because the appartment is long-term rented +while we focus on setting up home.

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To be clear: we don't want to be "landlords", we want to build a community +and be part of solving the housing shortage, not exacerbate it!

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Our medium to long-term goal is that people who co-live in the home +can co-own the company thus the amount they pay each month +goes towards ownership not "rent". We intend to explore this option +further our 2nd year of operation; +once we have launched our 3rd or 4th home.

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Modern Decor

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image +via: "5 Tips for Choosing a Coliving Space" https://www.thehustlejuice.com/lifestyle/2017/9/12/5-tips-for-choosing-a-coliving-space

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Previous Experience?

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This is our third business together. +Both previous businesses have been profitable and had zero capital.

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Why Portugal and Braga Specifically?

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Library of Creativity/Technology/Business Focussed Books?

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good-books

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http://paulgraham.com/hs.html (What You'll Wish You Had Known) > Now

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bookshelf-large

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go-work-for-an-existing-company-for-a-few-years +http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html > A Public Service Message

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Precedents

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From reading https://yclist.com / http://www.ycombinator.com/companies +it appears that YC has not invested in any other "Co-living" ideas.

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RFS

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After reading "Requests for Startups" http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs +we are convinced that our project qualifies for mentorship +in the Startup School program.

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Let us highlight the categories which are applicable home:

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BRICK AND MORTAR 2.0

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We are re-purposing an abandoned single-family large (by European standards) +house and transforming it into something new.

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We are making all of our plans, decisions and outcomes public +online https://github.com/dwyl/phase-two/tree/master/braga +so that other people can learn from our mistakes/success +and

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EDUCATION

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DIVERSITY

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FUTURE OF WORK

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LONGEVITY AND ANTI-AGING

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SUPPORTING CREATORS

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TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING

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Having a place where you can work without needing to commute +and where you have access to an electric bicycles and other +on-demand transport is the future.

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While we are not directly addressing TRANSPORTATION, +we will make a car available to all members at each house we build. +Our plan is to have one or more electric car(s)

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UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL SERVICES

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Once we have proved the initial model of home +with a successful App and expanded to 5 locations, +we intend to hire a team member who will be responsible +for reaching out to and mentoring people are especially vulnerable: +young adults from "broken homes", children of incarcerated, drug-dependent +or dead parents and women who have been victims of domestic abuse.

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We already have a working relationship with Domestic Abuse charities +http://www.safelives.org.uk in the UK and http://www.cococi.org/fr/about-us +in Portugal.

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Our aim will be to give women and young adults who have been subjected +to domestic violence a chance to live in a safe living environment +where they can learn skills, find work and start their own success stories!

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Other Areas Which Are Not Our Primary Focus:

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A.I

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We intend to use computer vision for physical access controls (door entry). +This will not be our "product" however we will "assemble" +the pieces

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For this we will partner with our good friend (dwyl alum) Nikhila Ravi: +see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilaravi / https://github.com/nikhilaravi +who co-organises http://opened.ai +nikhila-ravi-opened-ai

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ROBOTICS

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We intend to use robots for as much domestic work as possible +to both alleviate the burden of "chores" and +Initially this will be confined to a robotic vaccuum cleaner, +but

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Universal Basic Income?

+

https://basicincome.ycr.org/our-plan +https://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income/

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Further/Background Reading/Watching

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