adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset
๐ Startup Advisor Dataset A high-quality instruction-following dataset distilled from 8 foundational business and startup books, structured as actionable advice with real-world 2025 examples. Designed for fine-tuning large language models (e.g., Qwen, LLaMA, Mistral) to become expert startup advisors. ๐ Dataset Summary Property Value Total Entries 1,564 Format JSONL โ ChatML (messages array) Language English License CreativeML OpenRAIL-M Avg.โฆ See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset.
๐ Startup Advisor Dataset
A high-quality instruction-following dataset distilled from 8 foundational business and startup books, structured as actionable advice with real-world 2025 examples. Designed for fine-tuning large language models (e.g., Qwen, LLaMA, Mistral) to become expert startup advisors.
๐ Dataset Summary
๐๏ธ Categories & Distribution
๐ Data Format
Each entry follows the ChatML instruction-following format with 3 roles: system, user, and assistant. A _meta field provides structured metadata for filtering (ignored during training).
{
"messages": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are an expert startup and business advisor. Provide concise, actionable advice grounded in proven frameworks and real-world examples from leading companies."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I'm at the **Scaling** stage of building my startup.\nGive me actionable advice on **blitzscaling speed**.\nRelevant themes: speed, growth, market_capture.\nComplexity level: advanced."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Prioritize speed over efficiency when your market window is closing. Accept chaos, technical debt, and management strain as temporary costs of capturing a winner-take-all position before rivals do.\n\n**Why this matters:** In fast-moving markets, the first company to scale dominates distribution, talent, and network effects โ making catch-up nearly impossible.\n\n**Real-world example (2025):** OpenAI blitzscaled its API platform in 2025, accepting early instability to lock in developers before Google and Anthropic consolidated the market.\n\n**Avoid:** `optimizing_too_early`, `waiting_for_perfect_infrastructure`, `prioritizing_margins_over_growth`"
}
],
"_meta": {
"advice_id": "advice_scaling_001",
"source_file": "Blitzscaling.md",
"category": "Scaling",
"stage": "Scaling",
"topic": "blitzscaling_speed",
"complexity": "advanced",
"tags": ["speed", "growth", "market_capture"]
}
}๐ง Complexity Distribution
Each entry is labeled with one of three complexity levels to support curriculum learning:
๐ง Usage
Load with Hugging Face datasets
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset", split="train")
print(ds[0])Fine-tune with trl SFTTrainer (Qwen / LLaMA)
from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
model_id = "Qwen"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype="auto")
dataset = load_dataset("adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset", split="train")
trainer = SFTTrainer(
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
train_dataset=dataset,
args=SFTConfig(
output_dir="./startup-advisor-ft",
num_train_epochs=3,
per_device_train_batch_size=2,
gradient_accumulation_steps=8,
learning_rate=2e-4,
bf16=True,
),
)
trainer.train()Filter by category or complexity
ds = load_dataset("adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset", split="train")
# Keep only advanced Scaling entries
import json
advanced_scaling = [
row for row in ds
if row["_meta"]["category"] == "Scaling"
and row["_meta"]["complexity"] == "advanced"
]๐ Source Books
โ ๏ธ Limitations & Bias
- All real-world examples reference 2025 AI-era companies (OpenAI, Vercel, Notion, Figma, Perplexity, etc.) โ the model may overfit to this era.
- Advice reflects frameworks from Western, VC-backed startup culture and may not generalize to all market contexts.
- The dataset does not contain negative examples or failure-mode demonstrations beyond
avoidfields.
๐ Citation
@dataset{abuhamdan2025startup,
author = {Adam Abu Hamdan},
title = {Startup Advisor Dataset},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset}
}Built with โค๏ธ to make world-class startup wisdom accessible through AI.
