Are there any Founders here, who likes the idea of sharing their product/marketing and business data with other founders - to create an alliance with other Startups and incubate each other in our early growth phase?

We all share the same objectives, and that is to build products that people love. We all beg steal and borrow from each other anyways - So why not just spare us the grind of doing the same mistakes over and over again and build a data sharing industry connecting all the valleys around the world!

A bit of background information on this project:

I previously worked as a product developer/designer within one of Scandinavia's largest Media companies separately owning over 40 of Scandinavia's most popular websites and apps. During the process of redesigning one of the platforms, we had an argument about how our conversion funnels were to be laid out.

But instead of having a pity argument, we came up with the idea of asking the other 40 companies for their data related to their conversion funnels (since everyone was operating within the same (almost) product segment but under different management and co-ownership) And everyone agreed and thought it was a great idea and we got top-level management on our side with doing this since all the 40 companies were encourage to cooperate with each other anyways!

Much said and done, it became an analytic and bureaucratic nightmare, trying to gather and compile data from 40 different sources, all spread out across Europe, everyone measuring the different sets of metrics, in different analytic tools, so we eventually abandoned the idea.

But I just could not let go of the idea of data-sharing, especially for Startups - And as a longtime fan of Formula One, and know how important "instructive product development" has been for Formula One Teams.

I have shared a few thoughts on data sharing here on HN, so if you want to read more, just have a look at my previous posts.

Cheers!