In Attendance

Kris

  • Launch Canada’s space exploration network

Tu

  • Online platform holistic services

Michael

  • No idea

Jordan

  • Cross generation (elderly - young people connection network (one on one meetups, lunches, dinners…)
  • Cafe in Langley

Michel

  • Rooftop garderning

David

  • Magazine ideas “The crows: downtown east side”

Marcus

  • Teaching comics - Ideas meetings story ideas

Leah

  • Graphic novel design style

Clayten

  • Franchising document for business operations. Cleaning and cooking playbooks. Training manager for these processes.

Idea development

Kris

  • Interesting Vancouver annual “most interesting person in Vancouver award”.
  • Launch Canada’s space exploration network
  • Friend in Ottawa created radio astronomy network and won a SETI award
  • Friend working on a space delivery project
  • Friend who ran space observatory
  • Create website with different groups: Radio Astronomy, Rocketry, Micro satellites…
  • Discussion board and forum. Idea collection.

Tu

  • Online platform holistic health services
  • Get Fit Vancouver: Company employees can choose where to get fit. They bill the employer not the employee.
  • Options for employees. Track how ofter employees use service.
  • Holistic health practitioners similar to EAP but with the option of employees to decide where to go
  • Platform for employers to offer employees options on holistic health services. Privacy enabled
  • Set a budget for employees to use. That way price does not rise for employers
  • Marcus: Improving the current the system
  • Basic health insurance can substitute other costs
  • Self insured groups in the US
  • Healthcare savings account
  • Clayten: Use spreadsheet to measure costs
  • Kris: Startups may be interested, but what can be written off as healthcare
  • Kris: NXTLevelyou.com. Coaching for employers and platform with data.
  • Clayten: Go lean and sell pitch to businesses
  • Give employees options
  • Leah: Employers buy packages from insurance companies. It’s difficult to insert offering there
  • Clayten: A/B test
  • Leah: Wellness vs healthcare
  • They penalize companies for healthcare usage
  • Marcus: Budget per person vs company budget
  • Clayten: Combine personal and company wide budgets
  • Usages of healthcare are low but with high costs
  • Compensation for work related injuries
  • Leah: Extended benefits vs healthcare. Additional service
  • Clayten: Convince startup as business case for sales
  • Kris: Small businesses as target and look for discounts from service research
  • Reference program as monetization strategy
  • Leah: Regulated vs non-regulated practitioners. Different liability.
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation
  • Clayten: Offer the option for employees to choose different alternatives
  • Leah: Waiver responsibility from the company to the employee
  • Jordan: Use a Groupon model to monetize. Membership association offering discount to employees. Have a fixed price for company and keep non-used amount. Membership for the business and employees pay discounted prices.
  • Jordan: difficult to sell employer plays all
  • Leah: Employers with campuses

Jordan

  • Big brothers / sisters organization for elders
  • Buddying program between seniors and young people
  • Non-profit
  • Seniors residences
  • Kris: in Europe, get paid to live at seniors’ home
  • Michael: young side more difficult than senior side
  • Leah: geriatric healthcare organization doing this but not well. Overburdened in west end (two years waiting list)
  • Leah: Better at home
  • Leah: West-end community centre
  • Tu: partner with senior associations
  • Kris: Knowledge transfer side / mentorship
  • Kris: Interesting characters and stories
  • Kris: go lean and try out a few fits
  • Leah: Get good people into the program
  • David: Good idea. Similar to the “Say Hello” project
  • David: Connections and Engagement study (mentioned previously)
  • David / Jordan: Creating 10 friends to sign up and find a senior
  • Marcus: stories on the webpage
  • Leah: Neighbourhood small grants from the Vancouver foundation
  • Tu: See how Brothers and Sisters get their funding
  • Marcus / Kris: Donations as funding
  • Tu: Flexibility to match themselves
  • Marcus: Forum to facilitate / apprentership
  • Leah: Careful with commitments
  • Michael: Go for the simple side of things
  • Leah: Concent
  • Michel: Group setting
  • Marcus: People who have experience in the area for assistance
  • Kris: Go players have lifetime experience
  • Clayten: Knowledge transfer
  • Leah: Tapestry foundation
  • Kris: Google Forms and ideasmeetings.org
  • Volunteers: Luke, Kris, David, Michel…
  • Luke: decide soon if business or non-profit or do both
  • Luke: Tutorships
  • Kris: IT lessons as monetisation

Michel

  • Rooftop garderning
  • Michael: Hydroponic
  • Luke: Aquaponics
  • Leah: Santropol Roulant
  • Jordan: Monetisation from building contribution
  • Leah: Start at a pilot building and fundraise in the building
  • Luke: BCIT: Center for the advancement of green roofs
  • David: Marihuana plantations may be legal and a monetization strategy
  • Clayten: Carbon offset credits as monetization. Other options: Flowers, Marihuana, Rocket…
  • Leah: Agriculture tax credit
  • Luke: Geo engineering: combine white crops and roof garden to reduce heat in cities
  • Kris: Silencing effect of vegetation
  • CO2 scrubbing
  • Luke: BCIT course: Grow 1500

Leah

  • Cartooning style derived from costume design: Web comics
  • Luke: Board books: distilled stories. Only
  • Marcus: Don’t need to complicate things
  • Michel: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was simple animation
  • Kris: Marcus and Leah should continue discussion
  • Marcus: You’re at your best when you keep moving
  • Marcus: Paul Clay