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The WE network

The founder profile, operator roles and standards behind your team.

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Four places to start

Described by roles and criteria

WE is a fully remote business incubation and consulting firm, so its network is not a building or a member list.

It has four parts you can read about today.

This section names no people and no companies.

Four places to start

Fit and first steps

Founders

The criteria WE uses, what WE asks of you and what you keep doing yourself.

Roles on a team

Operators

The roles a dedicated team can include, and what each one does not do.

What WE does and does not do

Investors

WE prepares evidence and offers curated introductions as a paid add-on. It offers no securities and promises no funding.

Organizations that help founders

Partners

An organization that helps or equips founders may send WE an enquiry. WE names no partner on this site.

From application to investor-ready materials

A sun of blue hexagonal tiles with four smaller hex-faceted worlds on one orbit ring: founders, operator roles, investors and partners around one company.
  1. Founders Who WE works with, and what WE asks
  2. Operator roles The roles a team can include
  3. Investors What WE does and does not do
  4. Partners Organizations that help founders
The network drawn as one system: every part turns around the company, not around WE.

Preparing materials is not a route to funding. Read how investor readiness works, how WE steers a team and the trust center.

How the pieces fit

A founder applies. WE scopes the work with the founder and assembles a dedicated team for that company. The team is made of defined roles, WE steers it, and WE manages any subcontractors it uses. As the work produces evidence, WE helps the founder organize that evidence so a serious investor can read it.

Each step has its own page. The founder page says what WE asks of you and what you keep doing. The operators page lists the roles a dedicated team can include. The investors page says what WE does for companies preparing to raise, and what it does not do. The partners page says how an organization that helps founders can send WE an enquiry.

Partners

An organization that helps or equips founders may send WE an enquiry. The partners page lists six categories, from tooling and software products to ecosystem and community programs. An enquiry creates no partnership, no referral arrangement and no commitment on either side. WE names no partner on this site until a written record exists.

The standards WE works to

WE steers a team with a small set of documented operating frameworks. Those are described on the frameworks page. The public standards WE maps its work to are named on the trust center. Naming a standard is a statement about what WE reads and works from. It is not a claim of certification for WE or for any company.

What the network is not

There is no logo wall, no client list and no investor network. If that changes, it will appear on its own page with the names of people and companies who agreed in writing to be named. Investor Introductions is a separate, paid add-on. It is not a membership of any network.

Investor Introductions, an optional add-on

Investor Introductions is a separate, optional add-on to an engagement, and no engagement requires it. A flat fee covers curation and preparation. The fee does not depend on whether any investment closes. WE curates and limits the introductions, and makes them only after the readiness criteria of Service Line F are met.

The structure and the readiness criteria are on the investors page. To ask for the current fee, use the contact form and name the add-on.

Worlds WE builds

A company forms the way a world does: dust, a core, a lit world, then rings and moons, over ten years rather than ten weeks. These stills come from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute"; open one for the full picture. They are drawings of the stages, not of any company.

  1. A loose spiral of blue dust turning around an empty center on a night-blue sky.
    Year 0, incubation: an idea, a plan and an application, drawn as dust that has started to turn. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  2. Blue dust spiraling into a small glowing core built from hexagonal tiles.
    Months 0 to 7: the core forms. On average the first payroll came 2.29 quarters after the application. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  3. A lit hexagonal world at the center of a ring of 100 small lights, most lit and some dimmed.
    Year 1, launch: of 100 new establishments, about 78 are still operating a year later. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  4. A hexagonal world with two settled orbit rings, inside a ring of small lights where many have dimmed.
    Year 3.5: established. GEM counts a business as established only after 42 months. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  5. A hexagonal world with orbit rings and three small moons; about half of the surrounding ring of lights is still lit.
    Year 5, growth: about half of new establishments are still operating. The world gathers moons. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  6. A steady hexagonal world with rings and moons holding their orbits; the outer lights change very little.
    Year 9: a steadier orbit. Of establishments open at eight years, 94.4% survive the ninth. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".
  7. A small solar system of hexagonal worlds, one amber, with a ring of small lights where about a third remain lit.
    Year 10: a world in its system. About a third of new establishments are still operating. Rendered by WE from the film "A company's first decade, in one minute".

Worlds WE builds

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