October 10, 2016
October 10
Attendees
- Kris - 200 year plan
- Laura - get ideas from you guys - meeting Angel
- Stephanie - no ideas - stick and poke tattoos
- Michel - web application guy - no new ideas
- Brian - bring South Korean friend here -
- Rob - make a self folding business card - most fun job
- Mark - How to transition from broken/old sponsorship model
- Keegan - Student -
- Ji-Youn (G-Anne) - Becoming famous online for being a college dropout from UBC - student mental health - overcome shame
- Tate - pin something on a certain feature - a program that does that? (program management)
- Markus - coming up with comic story concepts
Minimize phone Reliance
- Phone reliance - Markus doesn’t have
- Leave it at home when at Wreck beach
- Kevin Kavannah - Guerllla develops - Portland - “I’ve never had a phone”
- Quicktime - calculates how much time you’ve spent on your phone you can send you an alert
- Phone Co-op
- Laura: Phone is silent 24-7
- IARC classifies radiation as 2b - possible carcinegen
- Rob’s company does Safety Code 6 testing
- Isreal doesn’t allow wifi in schools
- Faraday Cage
- Why can’t I mark a text message as unread?
- Why is there no out-of-office text message?
- You can’t encrypt sms/text messages on iOS/iPhone
- Dollar vigilante on Youtube (Jeff Burley - formerly from Vancouver)
- Markus: You become ineffective if you’re always available
- Laura: Sync with your Google calendar when you’re available - and how/if it should respond
- Mark: Everyone is so busy, no one has time to think
- Mark: Auto-responder
- Auto-reply bot x.ai
- Markus: a book about fasting - tv/internet fast, maybe try a phone fast
- Set a schedule for checking my phone.
- Keegan: What do we miss from this addiction and mental health - I’m aware of but it’s an addiction
- Keegan: When you grow up with the idea you can speak with anyone any time, FOMO happens - Happening to older generation
- Markus: efficiency - anxiety issues - when I start to feel pressured I do not perform as well as I can. When I feel pushed, I want to slow down.
- G-Anne: Capitalist obsession with productivity
- Laura: On my bicycle, can’t text or talk
- Michel: Swimming
- Markus: Yoga & Run
- Rob: Warren Buffet: Goes into a soundless company
- Float tanks
- Aqua Notes
Laura: Marketplace website (Freelancer meets match making)
- Entrepreneurs can meet each other
- Freelancer - race to the bottom, with mine, you get paid real/good money
- odesk/upwork/elance
- Mostly applies to (entrepreneurial) women
- Don’t know what to say
- Rob: You must be a functional monopoly
- Kris: 1M is typically for VC, start with raising cash for MVP to get traction if going Angel track
- white labelling the tech stack
- Markus: Reputation handling
- Rob: Show there’s a need not being met
- Tate: Pitch your team if they’re good
- Kris: feel good/social happens at Angel round, not at VC level
- Steve Blank’s ep245 on udacity.com
- IRAP
- Business Model Canvas
- The Lean Startup
Brian:
- Different ways of making money online
- She has to create a job online
- Laura: She could be a nanny, now opened to other countries than the philippeans
Rob: Make a self-folding business card
- Oragami like - if you tap it on a corner, it folds
- Hired 6 people already that couldn’t do it
- Laura: put a snap braclet in it
- graphene
- VHS
- Joseph Wu
Mark: Broken Sponsorship Model
- Guilds are dead or dying
- There was a time when being in a guild brought you business – there are a few still clinging to this model (architecture, engineering)
- Why should I pay you to be a member of your tribe
- Building a revenue stream on membership dues is now flawed
- Creative Mornings Vancouver - you’re accessing a growing tribe, a growing community, you get to a part of this active process
- “Support Partners” instead of “sponsor”
- A meal instead of a meeting
- Active impact association instead of a traditional old boys’ club
- Markus: Project Creation Association
- Laura: not telling each other how much they’ve contributed
- Millenials feel icky if there’s a primary sponsor
- Laura/Kris: Crowd sourced altruism
- Divesity Board
- Kris: Make it cool, money will come in, like CM.
- Michel: Make it like a gain, keep them drawn in
- Mark: Being the company that pitched the best project that the organization rallies around
- Markus: invite people to comment on the process
- Rob: deep cove crime up 800%
- Beware of Images
- GDC: commodotized and democratized.
- CM: everyone has a notion for the idea of creativity
- Markus: Projects that matter. What makes projects matter to them?
- Tate: record the meetings online of this incredible project conversation online
Ji-Youn (G-Anne) - student mental health - overcome shame
- Just dropped out after 3 years - blogged about it, got 1000 readers on FB and lots of shares.
- Daily Hive article
- The Tipping Point project - Academic flexibility
- Started with a lot of anger - didn’t think UBC cares, turns out they do and a lot of faculty have paid attention - I want to show this to other students
- Create a community of former students who have been pushed out of the system
- 23 former UBC students have been forced out of the system, and 4 more coming
- dropping out has more shame than not going in the first place
- Shame is fear of disconnect says Brene Brown, I share with everyone instead, then it doesn’t stick
- I don’t know how to deal with shame
- Laura: How has University changed - it wasn’t really a problem 15 years ago
- More people, 15,000 undergraduate students now
- UBC is recruiting a lot of international students (more challenges to domestic students)
- admission rates shoot up - 91% for your top 4 courses now. Used to be 69%.
- “I have friends declined who had a 92% average” - G-Anne
- Kris: Talk to Katherine Moore
- Kris: Talk to Self Design
- Kris: What other alternatives exist (ie MOOCs)? self-teaching
- Anon: I dropped out back in the ’80s, had a drinking problem
- Keegan: Higher education is a corporation.
- UBC is known for its administrative heirarchy.
- Univesirty has been the forefront of knowledge
- Family pressure still really strong
- I want to reduce shame - G-Anne
- Rob: If you have a mental disorder, you shouldn’t get together with other people with mental disorders. Mental disorders will get to worse.
- Validates the negative mindset, I’ve seen it in 18 years of AA says guest. COAST as well.
- Is the goal to learn now, or just the feeling it’s needed to get a job.
- Rob: Be aware of psychotropic medication
- SHIFT with us
- Chat Roulette without the nudity - Tinder with deep conversations
- Healthy Minds, Healthy Campuses
- Fuck Up Nights Vancouver
- Social Isolation is a bigger issue than house prices in Vancouver to Vancouverites [PDF]
- Kris: Talk to employers
- Reminder we’re all spending our life wanting to find contentment, learn, be a part of a community.
- Markus: You’re providing a value to UBC
- Don’t go negative on the University.
- Markus: I spent 6 years at Emily Carr, I was there for educational goals, to learn visual story telling, I wasn’t concerned with getting good grades.
- Brian: Be happy where you are, jobs are being automated, it’s not going away
- Kris: Millionaire Fastlane
- Laura: Offer a program that shows universities how you will prevent n% of students from dropping out.
- Kris: Make it a win/win for you and UBC. How can you measure how many students haven’t dropped out?
- Laura: My friend brings schools students, a recruiter.
- Kris: Enrollment Resources
- Rob: I’m going to get you, a dropout, the best paying drop job we can find.
- Laura: They are not a drop out - They took initiatives.
- Kris: Think of a better term than drop out
- Rob: Employers pay money for employees
- Brian: Turn it into an ebook and sell it on Amazon
- Rob: I was asked to talk to victims of mental abuse.
- Tate: Pick one thing, do it really well.
- Access and Diversity
Other things:
- First Meeting ever of Vancouver’s Data Driven wellness is this Thursday at Creative Coworkers
- Next week: Markus: Chair. Minutes: G-Anne.