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

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