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Pioneer 3.0

A home for founders on day 0

We’re adding a new option to the Pioneer offer: 2% of your company for a $20k investment, in addition to all the existing benefits of becoming a Pioneer. We're also adding a monthlong trip to Silicon Valley with fellow founders.

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Launch Team

Miriam Dorsett

Entre

Joined the Pioneer community this year and at first did not even know that it was a competition. Really enjoyed participating for the accountability and learning about new startups. They keep rolling out new features and this latest has me excited to start off the new year and who knows maybe I'll be an "official" Pioneer by 2023! Highly recommend this product to any founder.

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3yr ago

Manoj Ranaweera

@mdorsett How https://www.chibur.info/quoka?

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3yr ago

Miriam Dorsett

Entre

@manojranaweera Thank you for asking Manoj! I'm plugging along, one day at a time and learning a lot.

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3yr ago

Manoj Ranaweera

I have been on Pioneer since the day we went live on 1st Aug 2020. Prior to Pioneer, I took part on an online community similar to Pioneer, almost a decade ago called nreduce with edocr.com, which was acquired by Accusoft in 2015. Pioneer has many first time founders. Many have a day time job or freelancing whilst they hustle with a tech startup. Not all companies are tech startups, which frustrates purists like me. Pioneer community has helped me to strengthen the value proposition of https://skilledup.life in the early days. As a solo founder, it provided me with weekly accountability. Our team which include a large number of Volunters is now over 20. Since those days, SkilledUp Life has grown to a volunteer community of 2,586 from 71 countries. We built the supply side first. We started developing the demand side (customers) on 1st November 2021 and now have 8 customers with £223 MRR, which includes two customers from Pioneer. I would recommend Pioneer to any tech startup. The accountability aspect is really helpful. The Tournament (while it has a mind of its own and doesn't really care about traction) is useful as we as humans always want to compete. The highest I've reached is this week. At present, I am at 34th, but typically rankings change during the week, which drives some of us potty. But overall, Pioneer is a good thing for the tech startup community. May it survive and live longer!

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3yr ago

Mike Rubini

SponsorBrew

Using pioneer for more than a year now, always up there in the leaderboard but not being selected although my project is making money from day 1. Plus, I'm not receiving any feedback from them, so not sure on the process. That being said, I do receive good feedback from other people in the competition and this also seems a good update.

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3yr ago

Miriam Dorsett

Entre

@mikerubini Have you submitted to the livestreams where they pick projects for feedback? Or looked at those projects that they have selected? Are you in it to win it or to grow yourself regardless?

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3yr ago

Vanya Cherepukhin

@mikerubini Yep confirming. Seen it many times with tens of post-soviet founders. Pioneer's team is absolutely not transparent in making their selections. The same thing on feedback, community is super helpful, Pioneer's team almost never provide anything non generic as feedback.

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3yr ago

Manoj Ranaweera

@mikerubini @mdorsett I like to see whether I could get to No 1 even for a brief moment in time. My company, www.skilledup.life no way dependent on Pioneer for growth. Love the community - most of them, anyway!

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3yr ago

Mike Rubini

SponsorBrew

@mdorsett yes and yes - both

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3yr ago

Miriam Dorsett

Entre

@mikerubini wishing you the best of luck! Will look out for you! Whats the name of your current wip?

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3yr ago