Entrepreneurs, build your Good People Fund

Le Shift is a young company started by 3 founders with 1500€. We have no venture capital, we do not intend to raise money (at least not in a immediate future) but still we have what we call a “Good People Fund”. The fund is our treasure (like the inextinguishable flame that lifts us everyday) and we consider it the most important part of our capital.

The Good People Fund is composed of exceptional people who have been nothing but open / trustworthy / generous / plainly helpful with us. Most of them don’t even know that there is a fund, or that they belong to it. Without the fund, we wouldn’t have been able to make a Tour de Bretagne last summer, to reach some of our current clients, to land our first ShiftCamp with a 0€ budget, or to make La School happen (we have no office — by choice — to gather 21 entrepreneurs every Monday evening). We know who you are, thank you for your support.

Most important yet: there are in this fund a bunch of people who are ready to tell us when we screw up, when we don’t deliver as promised, when we lose focus. I’m looking at you Anto, Marianne, David, Marine and the Jeromes. Until now you have been silent, but we know we can count on you to tell us if we lose it :) Thank you for your demanding nature.

This Good People Fund has been our own internal accelerator. Partly because these people concretely accelerated our success and partly because we feel accountable to them.

So who is going to be part of your fund?

Originally published at Le Shift.