λC aims to build a extremely fast-paced startup community that ships frenetically.

In the long term, the aim is to eventually become a prominent accelerator/network for startups spanning various disciplines.

The Approach

λC's initial strategy is, beyond learning from and iterating on growth models established by the likes of YC and Techstars, to innovate and pioneer new approaches across the following dimensions:

• Strategies that embrace the acceleration. Startups would ideally join batches, ship, iterate and market at twitter threads cadence, with the safety net and backing of a strong, highly capable community and ecosystem - to fix things fast. One big continuous, live-to-market hackaton.

  The Blitzkrieg speed of the startup realm is nothing new. However, slow and infrequent application processes (i.e. YC's bi-yearly batches, accelerators take weeks/months to review application) feel out of sync with the chaotic speed at which things are evolving right now.

• Build & consolidate networks across different virtual spaces and cities to provide momentum for high-potential players with low/no visibility, especially in the international context - high potential builders and startups that cannot join in on the SF fun.

• Focus and innovate on software paradigms & funding models aligned with autonomous AI.

  An early adoption and live market testing of machine-first frameworks, with a focus on open-source and openness in general.

"And now every state, group, and dotcom has its own version of Metal Gear"

The Funds

Beyond consolidating efforts to ship high-value products fast and attracting investments or achieving self-sustainance in the process, the following dimensions come to mind:

• Suleyman stated that his new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million (outside of algorithmic trading presumably). Accelerating on self-funding swarm intelligence is to be emphasized by the initial λC batch(es), not out of mere curiosity but out of necessity. More on this in the next blog article.

• Developing and sharing finetuned, case-specific alpha on startup growth that immediately applies to the current market. Virtual events with previous builders with interests in relevant topics as speakers/sponsors.

  i.e. how to acquire the initial user base / launch on producthunt / reach companies in a specific industry / …

Becoming is not imitating, it is a risky journey to the unknown - a LLM-hallucinated Deleuze quote

Organization

• A public discussion group (most likely on discord & associated blogs) and a private focus group for batch members.

• The typical λC batch member profile would be a person who embraces the acceleration and who is actively building and shipping. Further down the line, autonomous agents as batch members. The rest of organizational details are to be figured out and presented along the way.

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Conclusion

These are the general ideas on what a λC would look like.

It is expected to start during August 2023, and organize based on potential discussions and perspectives generated by these ideas on twitter. Feel free to join in and share any interesting perspective @n_raidenai