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This is a really interesting model that has been tried a couple times in venture. Probably most notable is Upside (https://www.upsidevc.com). Curious to get your thoughts on them + why you decided to go the founder exchange approach as opposed to raising a fund?

Guess Joma was right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4n-0KYeKQ

Bill Gurley's response to this: https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1252701838496825345

Is he right that aggregating demand is the one and only key to a successful marketplace?

If you want to do something about climate change, consider working at a company fighting some aspect of it, whether it be wind energy, carbon removal, electric vehicles or something else.

We started Dolphin (http://withdolphin.com/) to create an easy way for people to find impactful jobs tackling climate change. Hope it's helpful to anyone considering a career shift.

Dolphin | Software Engineering Intern | New York, NY | Full-time, On-site

https://www.splashwithdolphin.com

Dolphin helps you find high-impact, high-paying jobs/internships solving problems you care about. We recommend work at 6000+ vetted organizations tackling pressing issues such as: climate change, poverty reduction, education, healthcare, cities/urban mobility, space exploration, and protecting civil liberties.

We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.

This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.

This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.

Please email me at george@splashwithdolphin.com if you're interested in applying/learning more.

Dolphin | Software Engineering Intern | New York, NY | Full-time, On-site

https://www.splashwithdolphin.com

Dolphin helps you find high-impact, high-paying jobs/internships solving problems you care about. We recommend work at 6000+ vetted organizations tackling pressing issues such as: climate change, poverty reduction, education, healthcare, cities/urban mobility, space exploration, and protecting civil liberties.

We're looking for talented software engineering interns for Spring/Summer 2020. An ideal candidate will have experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular) and backend technology (Flask, node/express) for building robust APIs. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a plus.

This internship is a unique opportunity to gain extensive real-world software development experience and work directly with our CTO. You’ll be building out parts of the Dolphin web app, which will help others find high-impact jobs and internships.

This role is great for self-starters who want to help fight the major issues facing society today and excel in fast-paced environments. We believe that the highest-leverage thing to do right now is to connect talented people to roles tackling major problems they care about. Hopefully you will play a pivotal part in helping us achieve this mission.

Please email me at george@splashwithdolphin.com if you're interested in applying/learning more.

Been working on a project to help people find high-impact jobs tackling problems they care about (ie. climate change, healthcare, etc), and we'll have filters for part-time and remote when we launch next month: https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.

The notion that meaningful work is inversely correlated with pay is one of the most detrimental myths that prevent smart people from even starting to look for high-impact companies and roles. It's a convenient but weak excuse.

Off the top of my head, here are a couple of high-impact, high-paying companies that are currently hiring: - Tala (https://tala.co/) - Upsolve (https://upsolve.org/) - Jupiter (https://jupiterintel.com/) - One Concern (https://www.oneconcern.com/) - Promise (https://joinpromise.com/)

There's thousands of other companies we've vetted for Dolphin, a jobs app to find high-impact, high-paying work tackling everything from climate change to healthcare reform. We're still building out the MVP but feel free to stay updated at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com.

IMO the highest leverage thing to do right now to fix the environment is connecting the most talented people with careers at organizations directly tackling parts of the environmental crisis. Individual efforts can help, but all major advancements in human history have come through a coordinated group of people advancing a common cause. In our day and age, these are the corporations and nonprofits.

Similarly, the effectiveness of volunteering is also limited because of how hard it is to do work for free for a long period of time. The moment something becomes hard is the moment an effort starts getting valuable, and also the moment when volunteers start dropping.

Given all this, I'm currently working on Dolphin (https://www.splashwithdolphin.com/), which connects people with careers at high-impact companies tackling problems they care about. Climate change is #1 on the list of pressing issues. Happy to chat more about this at george@splashwithdolphin.com.

We're building a jobs board for this right now at https://www.splashwithdolphin.com. About to release a beta soon, sign up to stay updated if you're interested :)

The Series of Unsurprising Results (SURE) Journal is starting to do this, but only for economics papers: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/surejournal/

Vox recently ran a good profile on them and the importance of null results in general: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/17/18624812/public...

Reminds me of the time when Bitcoin was first posted to Hacker News and only got 5 upvotes and 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

Ah, thanks for that, just added! And the methodology is just manually searching HN for bootstrapping-related posts that are still valid links.

That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate + best of luck!

This is cool! There was a very similar startup, Prayas Analytics, that also went through YC (in 2015) and ended up shutting down: https://medium.com/@pranshum/10-lessons-on-3-years-with-pray...

Curious to hear your thoughts on what's different this time around?

I think the OP doesn't think the Internet is fun and weird anymore because he's looking at it in relative terms, whereas you're looking at it in absolute terms (so both of you are probably right). It is true that increasingly more and more of the time one spends on the Internet is spent on a few key websites, but it is also true that the number of weird places one can check out on the Internet is much higher now than in the past. If you're looking for these weird pockets of the Internet, a good place to start is this collection: https://find.xyz/map/weird-corners-of-the-internet

I currently work in an open-floor office in a Wework. Yes, it is distracting at times, especially since I know other people in the Wework and we often have spontaneous conversations.

However, I like it much better than working from home because I want to completely separate my work and home environments. This way, I can develop a different mindset in each environment, as opposed to a weird hybrid of always-relaxing/alway-working if I try to work from home. Also, I'm the type of person that simply can't focus at home because:

1. it's too quiet 2. there's always a couch/bed for a "quick" nap 3. there's always an excuse to do household things instead of work

On the other hand, I know the moment I get into the office, #2 and #3 aren't possible and there are other people working their butts off, and that's helped my productivity.

Granted, I think a majority of research on open-floor offices actually shows that it's detrimental to both productivity and socializing: http://find.xyz/map/effectiveness-of-open-floor-plans.

Maybe I'm just the exception (or maybe I'm just fooling myself into thinking I'm productive), but anecdotally I'd say working in a coworking space has been a net-positive for me.

If you're interested in this concept of "everyone is winging it," here's a collection of articles exploring this concept applied to other areas (like startups + design): https://beta.sundae.space/collection/635