Attendees

  • Kris
  • Mary-Lou
  • Scott
  • Luke
  • Alan

Minutes

  • Alan’s Startup Cap app
  • Captable.io

  • Boris Mann’s Cap table discussion from earlier this year Kris attended

  • When can you take the risk to do a startup?
  • Where are you on Maslow’s hierarchy?

  • What’s repeatable for startuup success in terms of process?

  • GTD-php

  • Usual steps for doers: discovery, design, wireframes…

  • What are the gotta have pieces

  • Persistence is required for those on the bleeding edge

  • nutritional supplements don’t have regulation - no testing required
  • health watch dog
  • access point for people wanting to take nutritional supplements
  • public clinical trials
  • $1-10 placebo pills
  • drink vs pills vs inject vs (knee) surgery placebo - the more intrusive the greater results?
  • UBC has a centre for placebo studies
  • nootropics/tDCS has volunteer community, how to validate the data?

Homework

  • Kris: 5 questions.
    • design jam - kris
    • interview team - 20 questions
    • run old companies history through my tool - BMC cross out
  • Mary Lou: BC impact forum survey:
    • product market fit questions
  • Luke: social pitch deck/business pitch deck?
    • send Luke how-tis
    • quadrant where you differentiate from competitors
    • pie chart
    • trajectory graph
  • Alan: piece/job story
    • templates & principles
  • Sunday:
    • Waffle Iron:
    • Design Jam Experience

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