The world's best ecosystem for owner-operated businesses: to scale, to succeed, and to enjoy the journey.
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Why YP Club
I understand the challenges of scaling a business, because I have lived them. More than half of businesses fail in their first five years.
I had sat in the rooms where a business goes under and seen what breaks a company at scale. So I am building the infrastructure for people to succeed, and to enjoy the process as they do it, with people who understand.
Community is the thing that separates the businesses that make it from the ones that do not. Not the events, not the app. The room: a table of peers who have made payroll through a bad quarter, in a city made by its hosts.
Jim Rohn is credited with saying you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Most founders never choose the five. YP Club is where they do.
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The standard
One application in five is approved, and every member owns the business they sit there for.
Revenue
Past half a million dollars a year. The bar is the bar.
The business
Registered, with a trade licence. A company, not an idea.
The seat
The founder, the owner, or an active angel. Nobody sits in for them.
Acceptance
One application in five is approved. The club reads every one.
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The room
The quality of the people in the room, and the belief they share, dictates the entire success of the vision.
A table of peers who have made payroll through a bad quarter, and know what the quarter cost. The city is made by its hosts, and the club is one of them.
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Inside the club
Everything the club builds serves one of three things: community, knowledge, capital.
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Circle
The inner circle. A chaired room of same-stage founders that meets on a programme.
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Coaching
Through the scaling challenges, with people who have carried them.
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Event programming
Curated dinners, the weekly speaker series, the socials, padel, the hikes.
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Retreats
Away from the city, with the room. Cape Town is the first.
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Concierge
A travel desk, the upgrades, and the hours a founder does not have.
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One-on-one introductions
Pioneer Match. One introduction at a time, made from what the platform knows about both of you.
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PioneerOS
The club's own platform, built by us. The room, the match and the vault, in your pocket.
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The platform
A world-class technology ecosystem of our own, built to carry the room into any city.
PioneerOS is the club's own platform, built by us: the programme, the match and the map. It is what lets the club open a city without diluting the room, and it is where the room goes when you leave it.
Your table
If you own the business and you have carried it through a bad quarter, you belong at this table.
One application in five is approved. The club reads every one.
