The Startup Algorithm

Algorithms

All good algorithms should be repeatable and verifiable.

Not always easily understandable.

But to complete the Output, we must run it through an Inference Engine.

You my dear reader, if you implement my plan, are my Inference Engine, an Organic Thinking Machine…

Rolling Dice

All startup founders encounter difficulty.

All times have their own challenges.

All people encounter bias. As I wrote in the Infinite Status Games - Status Fractals.

It doesn’t matter what group you are a part of. It doesn’t matter how lucky you are. In the long run, these rules will play out.

Poker

Do you really want to be Good at Poker because you got a few Good hands? Or do you want to be actually good? This article will teach you how to be actually good rather than just a lucky punk. We don’t want no children playing games. We don’t want handouts. We want to be amazing, incredible, and to look ourselves in the mirror and say: “I did my best, everything I have I earned, and everybody can go F themselves because that’s just how dope we are.”

…Okay enough smack let’s get into it.

The Startup Algorithm by Shayan Arman.

Let’s get into it! Exciting.

The Algorithm is quite simple with 3 building blocks.

You

[Desire]

[Physical Strength / Stamina ( a: Mental, b: Physical)]

[The Search Function]

[Implementation]

As you can see, its just 3 simple steps.

So why don’t you? The reason being you simply don’t want to, not because you can’t.
With enough Stamina, and desire, there is absolutely no reason why you can’t implement the 3 steps above to win at anything. You just don’t want to.

All 3 are in a fascinating way connected. For example in order to do Step 2: Search properly, it takes Stamina and Knowledge. To gain that knowledge it takes Desire and Stamina.

Okay I need to slow down. I know only 3 steps. Yet how could it be so complex?

Why aren’t I telling you exactly what to do? Because times change. You are different. The business landscape is different. For me to tell you what to do, I would be a Charlatan. Since it most likely would not work. It is a Generic algorithm in that it should work for anyone, at any time, anywhere.

What’s fascinating about the above is the Search Function and Implementation are connected as well. If you let’s say do a Search Function [ a, b, c, d, e, f ] of projects a…f, and you Implement each one poorly, i.e too much time, energy, and money, you might only “Search” 3 items. You’ll never hit the one that actually works. So you’ll fail.

If once you hit let’s say Project g, in Step 2 Search Function, but you don’t Implement it with the right energy, or money, because you ran dry, since you are weak from Step 1, again you will fail.

So its not always the quality of the project, the market, etc.

Its You.