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GenZMafia is a community of young builders!
Welcome! Here you'll find suggestions on how to get started on a variety of topics, mostly for free, as well as a list of technical resources to transform your project -> product -> company.
GZM Projects/Products
- This is a public view of things being built by GenZMafia It's Time To Build
- This serves as a single source of truth on who is working on what and the community can benefit from it to ask for advice/questions/help from certain people that are working or have expertise in certain areas.
- Are you part of GZM Discord and want to add yourself to this list? Follow the steps below!
- Fill out this form to add your project/product/company to the GZM It's Time To Build Airtable
- Once in Airtable, go to the orange 'It's time to build' Airtable button under 'bases shared with me'
- On the right side if there is an 'Install an App' popup, click 'x' on the top right side to make it go away
- Fill out the details of your product/project
- To enforce accountability the Airtable is configured to update name of the Editor that updated the Airtable with a timestamp reflecting the latest change at the end of the row
- Verify your entry here using this public view
Founder Resources
High Output Founders Library
- This resource is a collection of guides put together by Steve Schlafman and Rishi Tripathy as an online center of gravity for actionable and practical advice. A lot of these are public resources scattered all over the VC world and this Notion page just brings it all together.
- For example: checkout the 'self' section to find useful advice on how you can grow as your startup grows.
How to write a cold email
Crash course in raising your 1st round by Jake
GZM VC CRM Funding Styles
- Look at the check size, type of fund, and notes on VCs.
Glassdoor for VCs
- We generally need some form of accountability for everyone. US gov't is built on a system of checks and balances and so should be entrepreneurship and capitalism in the tech industry.
- Take this guide with a grain of salt on what's said here but every once in a while there is a constant trend about a person and this proves to be useful in that context.
- We suggest to look at posts with detailed and constructive feedback.
Founder to CEO Guide
- Tactical guide to transition from Founder (experimentation, pre-PMF phase) to CEO (scaling/growth, post-PMF phase)
Facebook Mark June 2005 interview
Marketing
When to launch on Product Hunt
Marketing Slogans
- copysmith.ai Launched recently by GZM-ers @anwang427, @jasminewang#1066, @longtran, it has everything that copy.ai but.. better :) You have the ability to generate all sorts of content with GPT-3, as well as edit and manage your content. More features coming soon - message any of them on Discord for feature/bug requests :) access/discount code "genzmafia" for 20% off for 6 months :)
- Copy.AI Launched recently, it crafts your marketing slogans/pitch to your audience powered by Open AI's GPT-3
Crafting your message concisely
Web Development
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general advice |
Free code camp is a pretty comprehensive resource for learning web development. It's intended to be started from zero and has enough material to get to an entry-level of expertise in full-stack development using popular frameworks like React, Express, and Bootstrap.
Net Ninja very useful MERN stack tutorials. Also has videos on Flutter, Firebase, Vue, Python, etc.
Landing Page templates for startups
Design Resources
This is a collection of resources. To suggest more, DM @pranavsf or @hm in the GZM Discord.
General Mobile & Web Design
Frameworks
UX Advice:
AI/ML/Deep Learning
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Colab is a great way to get started hacking using the below resources; it comes with most of the packages you'll need without configuration and also comes with free access to GPUs, substantially speeding up many ML workflows compared to consumer hardware.
Deep Learning
For deep learning specifically, the simplest way to get started is with the fastai MOOC. It only requires a bit of Python and high school math, and gets you building deep neural nets in things like image recognition and NLP with decently modern techniques.
From there the deeplearning.ai specialization may be a good further step, or you can just start diving into reading research papers/hacking, searching anything you don't know on the web.
General ML
A free introduction to machine learning is Andrew Ng's course on Coursera. However, if you can afford purchasing a book (or can acquire the book through other means,) Hands-On Machine Learning by Aurélien Géron is excellent, and covers a lot of things the MOOC doesn't, like decision trees.
Crypto/Blockchain
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Cryptographic Security
Cryptopals is a set of programming challenges centered around real-world cryptographic attacks. While they require programming ability, the math is not very high-level, at least for the first few challenges, and covers fundamental concepts such as RSA, key exchange, and hash collisions.
Quantum Computing
As recommended by Guillaume Verdon!
Climate Change Resources
Presentation on Green Energy Market Cap by Dani Grant of Union State Ventures:
Housekeeping
Have knowledge of some topic (non-technical included) you'd like to share? Learn something from others on the server that could be useful to write down? Add it!
Repo for contributions here.