<story><title>Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/mozilla-goes-full-incubator-with-fix-the-internet-startup-lab-and-early-stage-investments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish2</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my &amp;quot;fix the internet&amp;quot; idea: build a search engine that is itself ad-free, and searches over only the ad-free segment of the web. More options: allow users to exclude sites with ads, sites with ecommerce, sites with tracking, or simply allow users to build and share lists of sites to exclude. Rationale: the unmonetized or under-monetized web was awesome, a lot of it still exists under the radar now, and it would be good to reify it as a tangible thing. Bonus 1: competitors probably won&amp;#x27;t copy your features. Bonus 2: spam won&amp;#x27;t be a big problem, as most of it contains ads.</text></item><item><author>lightninglu10</author><text>Hey all, Patrick here &amp;amp; one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders &amp;quot;fix-the-internet&amp;quot; incubator &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;builders.mozilla.community&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;builders.mozilla.community&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C.&lt;p&gt;1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the hard work it takes to do so.&lt;p&gt;2. $16k funding in a much earlier stage project (idea stage &amp;#x2F; MVP stage). MUST be serious about commitment it takes to get to launch.&lt;p&gt;3. OPEN LABS: these are open to the entire community and you have access to the mentors. 10 min checkins each week &amp;amp; peer sessions. We&amp;#x27;ve had TONS of amazing projects for our Open Labs in the Spring and we hope to see TONS more for the Summer.&lt;p&gt;In terms of MISSION and what we&amp;#x27;re looking for:&lt;p&gt;We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with &amp;amp; invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. We call this our ”fix-the-internet” incubator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xrd</author><text>I am learning Svelte, so I typed that in:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&amp;#x2F;?q=svelte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&amp;#x2F;?q=svelte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two links came back:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Facts on Farts&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;NiceJewishMom.com&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not a good first impression.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/mozilla-goes-full-incubator-with-fix-the-internet-startup-lab-and-early-stage-investments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish2</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiby.me&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my &amp;quot;fix the internet&amp;quot; idea: build a search engine that is itself ad-free, and searches over only the ad-free segment of the web. More options: allow users to exclude sites with ads, sites with ecommerce, sites with tracking, or simply allow users to build and share lists of sites to exclude. Rationale: the unmonetized or under-monetized web was awesome, a lot of it still exists under the radar now, and it would be good to reify it as a tangible thing. Bonus 1: competitors probably won&amp;#x27;t copy your features. Bonus 2: spam won&amp;#x27;t be a big problem, as most of it contains ads.</text></item><item><author>lightninglu10</author><text>Hey all, Patrick here &amp;amp; one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders &amp;quot;fix-the-internet&amp;quot; incubator &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;builders.mozilla.community&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;builders.mozilla.community&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C.&lt;p&gt;1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the hard work it takes to do so.&lt;p&gt;2. $16k funding in a much earlier stage project (idea stage &amp;#x2F; MVP stage). MUST be serious about commitment it takes to get to launch.&lt;p&gt;3. OPEN LABS: these are open to the entire community and you have access to the mentors. 10 min checkins each week &amp;amp; peer sessions. We&amp;#x27;ve had TONS of amazing projects for our Open Labs in the Spring and we hope to see TONS more for the Summer.&lt;p&gt;In terms of MISSION and what we&amp;#x27;re looking for:&lt;p&gt;We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with &amp;amp; invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. We call this our ”fix-the-internet” incubator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerchilds</author><text>1. cool.&lt;p&gt;2. the purple for the links makes me think i&amp;#x27;ve already clicked and seen everything</text></comment>