Moment matters
Not all founder need the same solution.
A founder exploring possibilities and a founder running an active company may both be called founders. They don´t need the same thing.
All founders are put together under the same definition. A limitation, since there are a vast sea of founders and also potential founders. There are founders who complete a team of one, and founder that are leading companies with dozens of people working with them. But what about the ones that are potential founders? People with ideas are also founders, potentially, and so Microdosis includes them under the scope and definition of a founder.
These founder all need something very different from each other. Timing matters.
One may need clarity. Another may need structure. Another may need capacity.
Yet founders are often grouped together as if they were facing the same challenges.
Microdosis sees things differently. Projects evolve. Founders evolve. Questions evolve.
Our answer? To granulate the founders stages_
Pre idea.
Project idea.
Active project.
All this difference is not ornamental, it’s contextual.
Pre idea founder.
Curiosity, exploration, possibilities. Here, they are not giving an idea a shot, but a shot to themselves. This stage is interesting because it allows a process of personal work, deep understanding and safe path forward.
What do they need? Exploration, reflection, clarity.
Project idea founder.
A concept exists, the project has shape, the founder is validating assumptions. This stage is unique because it is where action and inaction begin to separate us. Either we take this idea -or a version of it- to life or we don’t. Simple on paper, but complex in execution.
What do they need? Validation, prioritization, commitment.
Active project founder.
Project already exists, operations exist, clients exist. This group is interested in making things better, making things happen or the two of them.
What makes this founder stage so special is that operations have taken over and therefore is more difficult to spot blind spots. The proximity in between the founder and the operation makes things harder. The closer we are to a system, the harder it becomes to see it objectively.
What do they need? Perspective, sustainability, and the capacity to go future-proof.
Regardless of the dictionary definition of a founder, do you feel you can be one?
When was the last time you created something?
What feels most familiar right now: possibility, structure or operation?
Interested in pressure-testing your current stage? Start here.
