ssg daily! monday, march 23. 2015

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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.

Your input is welcome