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We’re Mozilla’s New Startup Incubator. AMA

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We’re Mozilla’s New Startup Incubator. AMA

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Post by lightninglu10 »

I'm Patrick, one of the 8 mentors & founders of Mozilla's new startup incubator: Mozilla Builders (https://builders.mozilla.community). We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with & invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. We call this our”fix-the-internet” incubator. This summer we’ll be investing $75k and $16k in teams for a summer cohort to help “fix-the-internet”.

Collectively we've built and sold companies, raised $$, and shipped many apps used by millions around the world. At our core we're hackers, doers, and makers. We've also seen the side of business where employees are burned out solely for the pursuit of profit, where user data is a commodity and not your privacy, where "growth at all costs" costs companies everything. We believe there's a better way!

We’ll be here to answer any questions people have on startups, give product feedback, advise people on how to get your first users, how to raise money, how to build for community inclusion, and in general just chat.

How would you “fix-the-internet”?

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Post by bartdecrem »

hi guys, i’m one of the mentors (and staff) on this program. i worked on the firefox 1.0 launch, other open source projects, built tap tap revenge (one of the first app store hits). I’ll be here all day & more than happy to answer any questions about the program, what we learned from all the projects people kicked off this spring, what kinds of ideas we’re looking for etc.

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Post by nbhartiya »

Hi, I'm Neeharika and I've been mentoring Mozilla Builders for the last several months. I'm a former engineer and serial entrepreneur with expertise in product, customer success, and enterprise sales. Early last year my company sold to a larger player and I decided to shift gears to helping other entrepreneurs. It has been so incredible to see what teams around the world are building to make the internet a more open and safer place! Here to answer any questions you might have!

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Post by marialegre »

Hi, I’m Maria, one of the mentors & founders of Mozilla Builders. I co-founded Chartboost, raised $20M, and built a company that is loved by hundreds of thousands of game developers.

Areas I can help with include: prototyping, mvp-ing, recruiting, fundraising, building a culture, scaling, managing your time, communicating, guerrilla marketing, pr, mobile user acquisition and monetization, international expansion, hacking your way into silicon valley networks, building bridges with other parts of the world, keeping mental health during it all and more.

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Post by bijmatic »

Hiya: I'm Bijan Marashi one of the mentors and founders of Mozilla Builders...I've built and exited search, email, and other deep tech companies as well as coached 8+ M+A's and a dozen+ venture financings. Ask me about creating new products + new startups, funding strategies for startups and working with VC's, shopping for M+A's...

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Post by kathy-moz »

Hi all! Kathy Pham here, another mentor and founder of Mozilla Builders. Looking forward to answering questions and sharing ideas. I've built/worked at products, organizations, companies, startups across private sector (Google, IBM), government (White House), non-profits, startups, healthcare (Harris Healthcare), AI, etc and Mozilla Builders Fix the Internet is one of the most rewarding, energizing movements I have ever helped build. So thrilled to hang out here with everyone. Currently a fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, teach a class on product management, and spearheading Responsible Computer Science, and Ethical Tech. My favorite Hackathon has been "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" at the MIT Media Lab! Love tinkering, building, going to the community, designing for equity, and so much more. Ask us all the things, and then apply and come join us!

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Post by juwonlee1020 »

Really cool to see this here!

I’m currently a participant in the Mozilla Builders’ Spring MVP program working on our recommendation-as-a-service platform www.chestnutai.com, and so far, the experience has been amazing! Each week, we get half an hour of dedicated mentoring session, and the mentors are super responsive on Slack as well. They give you great, tailored advice on how to validate your idea, gain tractions in the super early stage, and prioritize on what to build. Shout out to our mentors Bart & Patrick for being so helpful!!

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Post by sylvain_kerkour »

Hi, The programs looks great! I couldn't find on your website so I will ask here: can we attend the program (MVP lab) remotely?

Also which channels of communication are used to communicate between the teams and the mentors? Would you accommodate with a team using mostly asynchronous communication (written, non-chat) channels, because according to our experience it's the most effective way to communicate in a small software company?

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