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๐Ÿš€ 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. ๐Ÿ“– Dataset Summary Property Value Total Entries 1,564 Format JSONL โ€” ChatML (messages array) Language English License CreativeML OpenRAIL-M Avg.โ€ฆ See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset.

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๐Ÿš€ 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.


๐Ÿ“– Dataset Summary

PropertyValue
Total Entries1,564
FormatJSONL โ€” ChatML (messages array)
LanguageEnglish
LicenseCreativeML OpenRAIL-M
Avg. Tokens / Entry~288
Total Tokens (est.)~451,000

๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Categories & Distribution

Category# EntriesSource Books
๐Ÿ“ˆ Scaling400Blitzscaling, Measure What Matters
๐Ÿ’ฐ Funding347The Angel Investor's Handbook, Venture Deals
๐Ÿ‘ฅ Team & Leadership253Leaders Eat Last, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Rules
๐ŸŒฑ Growth & Traction146Crossing the Chasm, Traction
๐Ÿ’ก Ideation135Zero to One, Blue Ocean Strategy, The Mom Test
๐Ÿ† Strategic Maturity111Blue Ocean Strategy, Good Strategy Bad Strategy
โœ… Validation86The Lean Startup, Sprint
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Product Building86Hooked, Lean Product Playbook

๐Ÿ“ 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).

json
{
  "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"]
  }
}

๐Ÿง  Complexity Distribution

Each entry is labeled with one of three complexity levels to support curriculum learning:

LevelDescription
beginnerCore concepts, widely applicable principles
intermediateNuanced trade-offs, context-dependent decisions
advancedDeep strategy, founder-level judgment calls

๐Ÿ”ง Usage

Load with Hugging Face datasets

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Fine-tune with trl SFTTrainer (Qwen / LLaMA)

python
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

python
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"
]

๐Ÿ“š Source Books

BookAuthorCategory
Zero to OnePeter ThielIdeation
The Mom TestRob FitzpatrickIdeation
Blue Ocean StrategyKim & MauborgneIdeation, Strategic Maturity
The Lean StartupEric RiesValidation
SprintJake KnappValidation
HookedNir EyalProduct Building
Lean Product PlaybookDan OlsenProduct Building
Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey MooreGrowth & Traction
TractionGabriel WeinbergGrowth & Traction
The Angel Investor's HandbookVariousFunding
Venture DealsBrad FeldFunding
BlitzscalingReid HoffmanScaling
Measure What MattersJohn DoerrScaling
Leaders Eat LastSimon SinekTeam & Leadership
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen HorowitzTeam & Leadership
Good Strategy / Bad StrategyRichard RumeltStrategic Maturity

โš ๏ธ Limitations & Bias

  • โ€”All real-world examples reference 2025 AI-era companies (OpenAI, Vercel, Notion, Figma, Perplexity, etc.) โ€” the model may overfit to this era.
  • โ€”Advice reflects frameworks from Western, VC-backed startup culture and may not generalize to all market contexts.
  • โ€”The dataset does not contain negative examples or failure-mode demonstrations beyond avoid fields.

๐Ÿ“„ Citation

bibtex
@dataset{abuhamdan2025startup,
  author    = {Adam Abu Hamdan},
  title     = {Startup Advisor Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/adamabuhamdan/startup-advisor-dataset}
}

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