Monthly Archives: March 2015

More diversity please, 301 members on SSG; 226 on Slack

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Hi everyone,

It’s a great milestone and we expect to continue to grow. I encourage you to continue to keep diversity in mind for our future members. Not only because I personally believe it is the fair and good thing to do, but I hope you are all planning to go global with your products and services so it makes plain business sense to build out our community with founders and investors from all regions and backgrounds. It could be anyone who feels locked out of the current startup ecosystem.

Please ask founders and investors to request invites at http://startupstudygroup.com/slack/

or they can email me directly at charlesjo@me.com.

Thank you in advance.

Have a great week!

Charles Jo 650.906.2600 charlesjo@me.com

SSG member product Finkip is on Product Hunt today

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Hi,

We hope we can extend the same alert to other members when their product gets hunted in Product Hunt. Please see Sergio’s note below and visit the link and review. Please share with your friends who may be interested.

Thank you in advance.

Charles Jo650.906.2600
charlesjo

[Slack] Notifications from the startupstudygroup team for Mar 28th, 2015

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Hi Charles,

#general View in the archives

3928562847_a0dee5aea9790574dd24_72.jpg Sergio Romo 8:03 AM, Mar 28th
hey @everyone please check out Finkip on Product Hunt, if you like it please like or tell us why you did not like it.

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/finkip

It’s a project @rafaecheve and I have been working on lately

Also, since 7:33 am on Mar 28th, when you were last in Slack,

there have been 17 messages in seven channels.

SSG Labs projects directory

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SSG Labs projects directory

Let’s start tracking our SSG projects to get the larger communities involved.

bit.ly/ssg-daily is our daily newsletter.

Virtual pitches: JD is planning our 2nd virtual pitch event for 4/2. Please contact him directly on Slack @jd or @jdcarlu on Twitter for more info.

http://ssg.space best startup blogs

Seattle startups: see @joshmaher

Brazil/Canada startups: see Nima.

Charles

Charles Jo650.906.2600
charlesjo

Ssg notes 3/25/14

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Ssg notes 3/25/14

bit.ly/ssg-daily is our daily newsletter and I’m thinking that as our group is now 274 with 204 on Slack, it would be nice if members jotted down some notes from our daily Slack discussions.

JD is planning our 2nd virtual pitch event for 4/2. Please contact him directly on Slack @jd or @jdcarlu on Twitter for more info.

Please check http://ssg.space daily for good reads from our members as well as other startup thought leaders.

Charles

Charles Jo650.906.2600
charlesjo

More Confidence!

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More Confidence!

Instead of the ssg daily today, I am going to update an earlier post on our ssg slack:

The best thing we can help nurture at ssg is confidence. We now have 260+ members ranging from Oxford, Harvard, and creators of Wikipedia and MacRumors.com. And Wall St. types. We’ll continue to add. Never give up. Keep at it. Let’s succeed together!

And read and engage with our startup bloggers at http://ssg.space

Go go go!

Charles Jo
650.906.2600
charlesjo@me.com

ssg daily! tuesday, march 24, 2015

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ssg daily! tuesday, march 24. 2015 bit.ly/ssg-daily  / archive

forward this with your friends to join our growing helpful grassroots community of founders, investors, and advisors at www.startupstudygroup.com/slack ssg.space / contact: charles jo 650.906.2600 – twitter @charlesjo

focus

  1. we need blog readers to enage on http://ssg.space and enage your favorite startup bloggers.  Sergio created a simple template which has been working well to get the bloggers explore  http://ssg.space then we invite to Slack.

Template message to blogger:

Hey [****name****]   I found your post on http://ssg.space it’s a community to discuss startup blogs. If you sign up, your Medium feed is automatically added so you don’t have to ever manually post and possibly have more distribution.

  1. ssg needs a logo.  Please see @rafaecheve on Slack.

Ongoing projects:

    1. We are crowdsourcing referrals/recommendations to women founders and investors.  Please use this link in http://ssg.space.

    2. Please continue to support @nimakaz (Slack) for his Brazil/LATAM/Canada startup network and events.

    3. For those interested in ssg’s open source global legal forms project for startups, please contact Nathan (@nuclearpengy Slack/Twitter) for more info.

  1. Stats: 261 members; 194 on Slack.

Thank you all for creating the community we want and need.

Charles

ssg daily! monday, march 23. 2015

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ssg daily! monday, march 23. 2015 bit.ly/ssg-daily  / archive

forward this with your friends to join our growing helpful grassroots community of founders, investors, and advisors at www.startupstudygroup.com/slack ssg.space / contact: charles jo 650.906.2600 – twitter @charlesjo

 

focus

  1. We are crowdsourcing referrals/recommendations to women founders and investors.  Please use this link in http://ssg.space.
  2. We need everyone’s help with engagement on http://ssg.space as we are reaching out to awesome startup bloggers.  We want aggregate the best startup blogs for our education but also showcase our member bloggers who may have equal or better content than the top VCs and angels.  We should all be reading these anyway but if you can take a minute to comment, that would be great.  I encourage everyone to continue to blog (and of course build/test/ship products) but I need us to refocus to engagement :)
  3. Please sign-up and check out HubYard: Open Source Social Media Management by @shub (Slack) @theforthwall (Twitter).
  4. Stats: 253 members; 188 on Slack. Yes! the http://ssg.space has helped us grow!
  5. Please continue to support @nimakaz (Slack) for his Brazil/LATAM/Canada startup network and events.
  6. For those interested in ssg’s open source global legal forms project for startups, please contact Nathan (@nuclearpengy Slack/Twitter) for more info.

 

Thank you all for creating the community we want and need.

 

Charles

misc…

 

team goals

    1. Fully explore http://ssg.space as tool to educate members, public, encourage member to blog, invite more startup bloggers, which should interest future members and we can use to filter great matches for ssg.
      1. 8 blogs/day by members?

 

 

  1. 1000 members by June 2015; be the best startup community, period.
  2. rally support around
    1. Finkip – a new way to read blogs. Please review. Sergio’s team powers http://ssg.space .
    2. Nima’s Brazil/Canada projects (intercontinental startups migration & collaboration)
      1. Founder Institute Curitiba needs your help! #Sponsorships & potential mentors
        1. Chapter officially launches “test semester” http://fi.co/posts/14301
      2. Startup Wknd Curitiba needs #sponsorships to cover expenses (last event had about 100 participants! largest yet & growing)
        1. still looking for sponsors for SW Curitiba in May – short about R$20,000
      3. LatAm Startups Conference July 2015 in Toronto
        1. https://www.latamstartups.biz/
        2. Seeking partners to help with co-marketing & #sponsorship of Brazilian Delegation (we want to some promising startups with international potential to be present at this event)

 

    1. TimeShareCMO: data-driven marketing expertise for startups, part time.
    2. SSG Ecosystem Canvas – #communitycanvas
    3. HubYard: Open Source Social Media Management

 

past ideas

  1. continue to automate group notes like this newsletter, top 10 blogs from http://ssg.space.
  2. ssg labs – started 3/4/15
    1. explore ideas within group
  3. edition times – 9:30pm PST (initially 3/4/15)
  4. create easier invite and onboarding than www.startupstudygroup.com/slack (initially 3/4/15)
    ← WeAreLATech is using a TypeForm page to onboard to their slack channel. See: wearelatech.com/vip

    1. 10 minutes to process…
  5. better format for website, more content/context
  6. theme song to newsletter by one of Adam Marx’s @adammarx13 awesome bands; maybe cycle thru his bands?
  7. invite more tech/startup bloggers
  8. automate this newsletter (by @costrike)
  9. virtual pitches in future. Google Hangouts -> Yahoo stream.  40 minutes Total next time.
  10. Bloggers – focus on finding tech startup bloggers to join SSG.
  11. RFB: Request for blogs.  Crowdsource ideas for member blogs.
  12. Create a mobile app for SSG users (not slack ) ?
  13. Create a SSG social network site on top of present website – http://startupstudygroup.com    ?
  14. Create visual analytics about subject matters and topics reheated to start ups
  15. BTC
  16. Promoting, rallying around members’ launches.
  17. ad space on ssg daily and startupstudygroup.com.
  18. How can ssg be better?
  19. Slack has been fantastic for global instant communication tool but explore alternatives for video conferences, demos, pitches, etc.
  20. Student chapters at universities.  Nothing too burdensome/bureaucratic but rather super-lean.
  21. Best blogging practices (beyond nagging) and distribution channels.
  22. How can ssg be better? > SSG canvas will provide like diagnosis & gap analysis
  23. Slack has been fantastic for global instant communication tool but explore alternatives for video conferences, demos, pitches, etc.
  24. Student chapters at universities.  Nothing too burdensome/bureaucratic but rather super-lean.
  25. Best blogging practices (beyond nagging) and distribution channels.
  26. Joe mentioned “A member proposed a very interesting idea by email.  Hoping he announces it soon to group as it may help all of us.” Not sure if I am doing this right, but here goes. I love digging into marketing-and sales-oriented technology, and I am happy to write a blog post telling the world how awesome it is. I would love to swap explorations with other startups. Outline: free trial, 1 hour of investment with the service, 1 hour of write-up. As an aside, our best converting traffic ever came from this post: http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2015/01/24/toutapp-payboard-ritetag/. If folks are interested, is there a place where they could post their name/email on Slack?
  27. (MichaelZeuthen) Business model?
  28. Gamification:
    1. Fantasy Founders Game
      1. value of blogging; fantasy founders game for blogging founders vs. nah. – started 3/12/15. Terrence YC vs Charles (draft founders who blog: picks Adam, Darryl, Jonas, Chris, Shane)
      2. possible better iteration is scoring VC blogs daily, weekly, etc. as well as ssg members.