Day Zero by Day One - Community for exploring and validating new business ideas

👋 Hey Hunters! Andrew here. I'm the founder of Day One. We launched Day One just under a year ago. Our mission was to build a new kind of community where founders in their formative stages could not only tap into new networks, but also receive the specific guidance, accountability, and mentorship they need to build strong businesses. Looking back on the last year, almost 200 founders have become Day One Fellows, and over 300 mentors and investors have leaned into the program. MVPs have been launched, first customers acquired, cofounders have been paired, and checks have been written. But this was just Act I. Today, we're so excited to be kicking off Act II and serve more founders at an even earlier stage of their journey. Introducing: Day Zero 🎉 We've reimagined how entrepreneurs explore, evaluate and validate new business ideas. Inside Day Zero, you'll join a community of founders, aspiring founders, makers, builders, investors and serial entrepreneurs (we won't name drop here, but head over to our site to see who's part of the community). Great ideas are a function of great collaboration, so inside Day Zero... 💡 You'll explore ideas alongside industry experts in closed door brainstorms 🔎 pressure test new ideas with feedback from peers and startup experts 🔁 tap into the tools and frameworks you need to iterate toward validation 🚀 launch and build in public with a whole community behind you Basically, joining Day Zero is the closest you can come to becoming an EIR or joining a venture studio (and inside you'll rub shoulders with folks from both of these worlds), with the added benefit of collaborating with hundreds of people all across the world. Head over to www.joindayone.com/day-zero to learn more. AND JUST FOR TODAY you can get 33% off your membership. Thanks for reading 🙏 I'd love to answer questions here all day!

This is really cool! I’ve been following Day One for a while now, and Day Zero feels like a great intro to people who are just getting started. Can you talk about the types of entrepreneurs that would be a fit for this? Day One has seemed (and correct me if I’m wrong) focused on companies intending to go the venture capital route. So does Day Zero focus on entrepreneurs who eventually want to start venture backed businesses?

Secret sauce here is the people. Everyone at Day One is committed to doing their best for early stage founders. Love this team.

Day Zero allows everyone and anyone to dip their toes in entrepreneurship surrounded by a supportive community. This product makes it feel *good* to scratch that entrepreneurial itch without spending a lot of $, quitting a job, or needing to announce it to the world. Just come, build, engage, be helpful and see what happens!

Really needed - as someone who did Day One, i highly recommend this team :)

Congrats on this launch, Andrew! It is awesome what you have done with Day One, and I'm sure Day Zero will help thousands of new entrepreneurs to start!

Great idea! I definitely could see myself using this. Bravo!

useful for validating the ideas

Go Hutton go! 💯

Couldn't up-vote this enough. @andrew_w_hutton and the Day One crew are awesome.