ssgdaily.pdf

ssg daily yo! march 8, 2015 http://bit.ly/ssg-daily

member edited daily | archives at www.startupstudygroup.com | join our growing community and invite other founders, angel investors, VCs, and advisors to www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

thanks

1. member bloggers yesterday — 5.
2. contributions to editing — n/a

achievements

1. virtual pitch today. Meerkat is not as good as google hangouts. Intro to SSG, followed by pitches from Ash, Kela, Roland. 40 minutes Total next time.

stats

• 162 members; 111 on Slack
• Goal: 1000 members by June 2015; be the best startup community, period. 8 blogs/day means 1 blog to read every hour at work.
• Blogs today?

ideas to consider

n/a

member blogs – highlight blogs from ssg members; please read, engage, tweet…

1. the death of newspapers by Sol Weinreich https://medium.com/@SolfromBrooklyn/newspapers-rip-58fe378d0e18

interesting notes from SSG Slack & elsewhere

1. RonCo says YC is Harvard of accelerators.

member tweetstorms, rebuttstorms (hi @pmarca), upcoming speaking engagements, events (pix or it didn’t happen!), quora Q&A

• ?

icymi (best of Mattermark, @sama, etc.)

• ???

misc

• ???

past ideas

1. ssg labs – started 3/4/15
   1. explore ideas within group
2. edition times – 9:30pm PST (initially 3/4/15)
3. 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…
4. better format for website, more content/context
5. save also as pdf editions – done
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)

Housekeeping

1. ???

ssg daily yo! march 7, t2015 http://bit.ly/ssg-daily
member edited daily | archives at www.startupstudygroup.com | join our growing community and invite other founders, angel investors, VCs, and advisors to www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

thanks

1. member bloggers yesterday — 5.
2. contributions to editing — n/a

achievements

1. ???

stats

• 156 members; 109 on Slack
• Goal: 1000 members by June 2015; be the best startup community, period. 8 blogs/day means 1 blog to read every hour at work.
• Blogs today?

ideas to consider

1. automate this newsletter (by @costrike)
2. Virtual demo day? Sunday 3/8/15 7pm PST

member blogs – highlight blogs from ssg members; please read, engage, tweet…

1. Launching Asia Hustle by Douglas Crets https://medium.com/@douglascrets/launching-asia-hustle-d1e2ce9493c3?source=tw-841da27659b5-1425716282702
2. My Ideal Hires for Future Startups by Charles Jo http://startupstudygroup.com/my-ideal-hires-for-future-startups/

interesting notes from SSG Slack & elsewhere

1. Metrics and goals for SSG: membership vs blog output vs exits.

member tweetstorms, rebuttstorms (hi @pmarca), upcoming speaking engagements, events (pix or it didn’t happen!), quora Q&A

• ?

icymi (best of Mattermark, @sama, etc.)

• ???

misc

• ???

past ideas

1. ssg labs – started 3/4/15
   explore ideas within group
2. edition times – 9:30pm PST (initially 3/4/15)
3. 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/vi
   10 minutes to process…
4. better format for website, more content/context
5. save also as pdf editions – done
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

Housekeeping

1. ???

ssgdaily-2015-03-07.pdf

My ideal hires for future startups

By Charles Jo

3/7/15

Intelligent, hard working, ethical, – these are the basic requirements when hiring. I’d add teamwork, professionalism, ability to learn quickly, friendly, someone who can handle stress and not turn toxic at every downturn. Of course, I’d add diversity as well – not only to get wider range of perspectivesand strategies in tackling problems but because I want everyone in the world to use my product, my company should reflect the global population.

One quality that many may miss or avoid altogether is entrepreneurship. Old school of thought is to hire loyal employees who commit themselves to you but who you can fire any time depending on business conditions. I challenge that view to those building new companies. Rather than being captive to this limited view, founders and business owners should look at the life time value of the employee, or more correctly, a business partner.

Every hire at my future companies would have a dream of starting their own venture some day. From front desk office support to CTO, each employee should have an itch to learnabout how to step out on their own. Sure, I’d want to avoid direct competitors but instead, I would court everyone as an entrepreneur who after graduating from my firm, comes to me first to invest in their startup. We’d have trust built already to launch as partners.

ssg daily yo! march 6, 2015 http://bit.ly/ssg-daily

member edited daily | archives at www.startupstudygroup.com | join our growing community and invite other founders, angel investors, VCs, and advisors to www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

thanks

1. member bloggers yesterday — we got 7 published which is record so far – PDF may have said 5 which was a typo.
2. contributions to editing — Nick, Daniel

achievements

1. ???

stats

• 152 members; 108 on Slack
• Goal: 1000 members by June 2015; be the best startup community, period. 8 blogs/day means 1 blog to read every hour at work.
• Blogs today? 4 so far, maybe 5th by me but 4 more total to beat yesterday.

ideas to consider

1. automate this newsletter (by @costrike)

member blogs – highlight blogs from ssg members; please read, engage, tweet…

1. Here’s What Your Investor Update Should Look Like by Terrence Yang – https://medium.com/@yangterrence/investor-updates-you-re-doing-it-wrong-if-you-re-doing-it-at-all-4c522c48e9d2
2. Move Over Text Search, Brands Need Image Search by Douglas Crets https://medium.com/@douglascrets/if-there-is-a-next-step-in-social-analytics-software-it-would-be-the-move-from-searching-8e2d7370ddfe
3. Early Employees Are Investors by Sergio Romo https://medium.com/@romo/e8498821bcda
4. Build a Tribe Worth Building by Charles Jo https://medium.com/@charlesjo/building-a-tribe-worth-building-96d6480bcfbd
5. Unger Parsingby by Darryl McAdams – http://languagengine.co/blog/unger-parsing/

interesting notes

• Article comparing Product Hunt to Gartner

member tweetstorms, rebuttstorms (hi @pmarca), upcoming speaking engagements, events (pix or it didn’t happen!), quora Q&A

• ?

icymi (best of Mattermark, @sama, etc.)

• ???

misc

• ???

past ideas

1. ssg labs – started 3/4/15
   1. explore ideas within group
2. edition times – 9:30pm PST (initially 3/4/15)
3. 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…
4. better format for website, more content/context
5. save also as pdf editions
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

Housekeeping

1. ???

ssg daily yo! march 5, 2015 http://bit.ly/ssg-daily

member edited daily | archives at www.startupstudygroup.com | join our growing community and invite other founders, angel investors, VCs, and advisors to www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

thanks

1. member bloggers yesterday — we got 6 published which is record so far

achievements

1. 1 member won yesterday at Launch – congrats!
2. a famous person, joined out group — who is possibly more famous than JD Carluccio, Terrence Yang, Sol Weinreich, and Johnson Hor!

stats

• 145 members; 100 on Slack
• Goal: 1000 members by June 2015; be the best startup community, period.
• 4 blog today before coffee Cupertino time! — we did 7 blogs.

ideas to consider

1. better format for website, more content/context
2. save also as pdf editions
3. theme song to newsletter by one of Adam Marx’s @adammarx13 awesome bands; maybe cycle thru his bands?
4. invite more tech/startup bloggers

member blogs – highlight blogs from ssg members; please read, engage, tweet…

1. Why startupstudyggroup.com has to exist by Charles Jo thttps://medium.com/@charlesjo/100-words-per-day-2-why-startupstudygroup-com-needs-to-exist-6d791233237d
2. Operno March update by Daniel Crompton @webhat (& @rskiff @oplerno) https://medium.com/@oplerno/the-following-is-oplerno-march-update-91a5a2522eca
3. 7 Minute Workout Challenge http://www.rivehealth.com/blog/7-minute-workout-challenge
4. When You Should Recruit http://workhereapp.com/blog/when-you-should-recruit
5. What Bitcoin could do for South America by JD Carluccio https://medium.com/@JDcarlu/what-bitcoin-could-do-for-south-america-2487a323a77d
6. Funding the (Immediate) Future https://medium.com/@yangterrence/funding-the-immediate-future-652175cebd31
7. Almost at the Speed of Thought by Charles Jo https://medium.com/@charlesjo/almost-at-the-speed-of-thought-fc6cb04531d1

interesting notes

• LAUNCH festival post-mortem
  • speakers incl. [   ]. Follow @jason for more info.
  • ssg attendees incl. [JD Carluccio, others]
  • friends of ssg attending [Ashwin Sinha, Decimated Sanity founder CEO, preceleratee at Precelerator.com]

member tweetstorms, rebuttstorms (hi @pmarca), upcoming speaking engagements, events (pix or it didn’t happen!), quora Q&A

• ?

icymi (best of Mattermark, @sama, etc.)

• @sama wants AI regulated?

misc

• looks good on iphone Google Docs app.

past ideas

1. ssg labs – started 3/4/15
   1. explore ideas within group
2. edition times – 9:30pm PST (initially 3/4/15)
3. create easier invite and onboarding than www.startupstudygroup.com/slack (initially 3/4/15)

Housekeeping

• trying Times New Roman font.

• Housekeeping
  • DONE – Get Bitly url for this doc  http://bit.ly/ssg-daily ; long link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-l9UX1xGsYtulNVqnN6_CmbkvE5iqvmvq_xOJWmFM2I/edit?usp=docslist_api
  • create easier invite and onboarding than www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

ssg daily yo!

march 4, 2015

www.startupstudygroup.com/slack

thanks

1. JD Carluccio for increased membership in 24 hours!

stats

• 133 members; 87 on Slack

ideas

1. ssg labs
2. edition times? 7pm Cupertino time so we can read at 8pm? — maybe not.

member blogs – highlight blogs from ssg members; please read, engage, tweet…

1. http://blog.convolounge.com/
2. https://medium.com/@AlwaysaGoodday1/start-your-day-with-aversion-therapy-1c351a7087e
3. https://medium.com/@VivooshkaC/cultivating-a-passion-to-learn-by-chief-camp-aide-silvia-li-sam-157d6d2ccb3e
4. https://medium.com/@yangterrence/top-lessons-from-the-sold-out-harvard-ga-founders-funders-panel-6121b3fc2e7e
5. http://joshmaher.net/2015/03/04/how-to-build-a-robust-business/
6. https://medium.com/@KikiSchirr/everything-i-know-about-personal-branding-i-learned-from-tinder-eebb7d09f17a
7. ???

interesting notes

• ssg daily started today march 4, 2015!
• LAUNCH festival speakers today incl. [   ]. Follow @jason for more info.
  • ssg attendees incl. [JD Carluccio, others]
  • friends of ssg attending [Ashwin Sinha, Decimated Sanity founder CEO, preceleratee at Precelerator.com]

member tweetstorms, rebuttstorms (hi @pmarca), upcoming speaking engagements, events (pix or it didn’t happen!)

• quora Q&A?

icymi (best of Mattermark, @sama, etc.)

http://andrewchen.co/im-hosting-a-qa-with-eric-ries-at-a-private-event-on-march-21st-heres-how-to-attend/?utm_source=andrewchen&utm_campaign=a3c17eccdc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1fae7e415-a3c17eccdc-91066037

misc

• Browser editor from iOS Safari works ok.