Consulting has a bad reputation among startups and venture capitals, but experts ecosystem is the main knowledge source for most accelerators/venture capital network.
How can you scale consulting as a service for startups/founders?
Entrepreneurs traffic in a special expertise: valuable, unique and defensible IP. All Roy Kroc had to know was how to teach people to teach other people how to run a McDonald's restaurant.
A business that achieves "product-market fit" has a very specific and path-dependent situation. Sometimes you find this "one weird trick" that lets you make money hand-over-fist for a while and you want most of all to keep that a secret. Other times the knowledge is so specific (how do you grow the most rice you possibly can in this valley?) that it's not of interest to outsiders.
"Expert networks" are notoriously promiscuous so firms have a lot of fear that they'll bring in an expert who walks out with more valuable information (e.g. "one weird trick") than the they can bring into it.
My favorite kind of expert is this kind of guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySuUZEjARPY
who grew continuously through a 40+ year career and went from being in the dark about noise in circuit boards to an inspiring vision of how electrical energy flows not in the wires but through the space between the wires that makes everything I thought mysterious about antennas seem obvious.
- "Have You Consulted with Experts?"
Or:
- "How can you scale consulting as a service for startups/founders?"
Or:
- What are the ways to solve the bad reputation consulting has among startups and venture capitalists?