About This Wiki
This entrepreneurship knowledge base was built entirely by an LLM (Claude) over the course of one session — 62 loop iterations, 60+ git commits, from empty directory to 90 articles and 1,000+ wikilinks. No article was written by a human. Every word was researched, synthesized, cross-referenced, and committed by the machine.
How It Was Built
The Infrastructure
- CLAUDE.md: Operating manual telling the LLM what to do each iteration
- 7 CLI tools: ingest, search, search_index, lint, backlinks, stats, render
- The
/loopskill: Fires the prompt every 10 minutes via cron - Obsidian: The viewing frontend (open
wiki/as a vault)
The Loop Prompt
contribute one atomic piece of knowledge to the entrepreneurship
wiki following CLAUDE.md instructions
Each iteration: read indexes → pick highest-priority action → research/write/update → lint → backlinks → commit. Fresh context each time.
The Decision Tree
Priority order each iteration:
- Uncompiled sources exist → compile them
- Stubs need enrichment → expand them
- Topic gaps → research + ingest new source
- Health issues → fix them
- Synthesis opportunity → write connecting article
- Deepen coverage → new angles, case studies, contrarian views
Growth Phases
- Phase 1 (iterations 1-15): Breadth. Ingest 10+ sources, create all core concepts.
- Phase 2 (iterations 15-35): Depth. Promote drafts to complete, write synthesis articles, add case studies.
- Phase 3 (iterations 35-62): Expansion. New topic areas, guides, visual outputs, quality passes.
What Makes This Different
From a Textbook
Textbooks are written once. This wiki is living — the loop keeps enriching it. Articles link to each other bidirectionally, creating a knowledge graph, not a linear narrative.
From a Blog
Blogs are chronological. This wiki is topological — organized by concept, connected by wikilinks. You can start anywhere and follow the links to related ideas.
From ChatGPT Answers
Chat answers are ephemeral. This wiki is persistent, versioned (git), and accumulated. Each iteration builds on everything before it. The 60th article is richer because it can reference the first 59.
From a Human-Written Wiki
A human would take months to produce 90 articles with 1,000+ cross-references. The LLM did it in one session. But more importantly: the cross-referencing is systematic, not ad hoc. Every article links to every related concept because the LLM reads the full index before writing.
The Knowledge Graph
The wiki forms a dense graph with clear structure:
Core Hub: product-market-fit (90+ incoming links) — the gravitational center
Primary Clusters:
- Validation: ideation → customer-development → minimum-viable-product → lean-startup → product-market-fit → pivoting
- Growth: growth → distribution → user-acquisition → product-led-growth → network-effects → marketplace-dynamics
- Money: unit-economics → pricing-strategy → business-models → fundraising → bootstrapping
- People: cofounder-dynamics → hiring → company-culture → founder-psychology → remote-teams
- Operations: execution → focus → operations → founder-mode → scaling → wartime-peacetime-ceo
- Meta: startup-failure-modes → competitive-strategy → moats → exits-and-acquisitions
Synthesis Layer: 9 articles connecting clusters (Startup Lifecycle, Validation Stack, Money Playbook, Building the Team, Leadership Modes, Experts Disagree, Founder OS, AI Era, Case Study Comparison)
Case Studies: 6 real companies (Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Shopify, WeWork, Cursor) mapped to the frameworks
Entry Points: 5 guides for different needs (Start Here, Cheat Sheet, FAQ, Founder OS, Recommended Reading)
The Sources
21 sources from 19 authors, spanning 2006-2025:
| Author | # Sources | Perspective |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Graham | 6 | First principles, essays |
| Sam Altman | 1 | YC playbook, comprehensive |
| Steve Blank | 1 | Customer development methodology |
| Eric Ries | 1 | Lean startup, validated learning |
| Peter Thiel | 1 | Monopoly, competition, secrets |
| Marc Andreessen | 1 | Product-market fit |
| Jessica Livingston | 1 | YC patterns, determination |
| Keith Rabois | 1 | Operations, barrels vs ammunition |
| Ben Horowitz | 1 | Wartime/peacetime leadership |
| Rahul Vohra | 1 | Quantitative PMF measurement |
| Rob Fitzpatrick | 1 | Customer interview technique |
| Mark Leslie | 1 | Go-to-market framework |
| Jason Fried | 1 | Bootstrapping, calm companies |
| a16z | 1 | Network effects dynamics |
| Fractl | 1 | Startup failure data (193 post-mortems) |
| Michael Seibel | 1 | YC essential advice, 90/10 rule |
| Garry Tan | 1 | AI-era YC data |
How to Extend This Wiki
The loop prompt keeps working. Future iterations can:
- Find new sources (non-US perspectives, academic research, recent publications)
- Write more case studies (Notion, Figma, Theranos, a non-US company)
- Deepen existing articles with additional sources
- Create new synthesis articles connecting concepts in novel ways
- Render more Marp slide decks for presentations
- Challenge existing content with contrarian perspectives
How to Build Your Own
/kb-init [your subject]
This creates the full infrastructure. Then:
/loop 10m contribute one atomic piece of knowledge to the [subject] wiki following CLAUDE.md instructions
The LLM handles the rest.
See Also
- start-here — Where to begin reading
- recommended-reading — The sources behind the wiki