Abot.app vs Startup Science

Anonymous feedback bot for Slack teams

Abot is a simple tool for providing anonymous feedback messages within your Slack team. If you want to conduct an anonymous survey or collect yearly performance reviews, you just need to type a simple command. Whoever receives a feedback can reply to it without knowing who is the author. Depending on organization needs, Slack team admins can customize the bot to prevent misuse of anonymous communication.

Giving founders an unfair advantage

To help startups design their success, 1 founder at a time.

Why? Because wealth inequality is directly tied to entrepreneurship. 95% of people who get out of check-to-check living do so by selling a business.

It started with researching why, how, and when startups fail. We did 1,200 interviews and spent months reading the research to understand the 90% failure rate. We learned that founders keep making the same mistakes and these mistakes can be avoided. And the problems that lead to these mistakes center around people, knowledge, and financial resources.

Accelerators are designed to help startups solve these problems. But only 2% of startups who apply, are accepted into accelerators. 60% of rejected founders “failed to complete the application due to lack of knowledge.” And 70% of those startups who are accepted, came through a referral. So if you don’t know the language or are not connected into the ecosystem already your chances are slim.

Location: Santa Cruz, United States