5/23

• Community
  • Mo will be taking over outreach
  • Pablo, Nikhil asked for you again
  • Went through latest applications in Sheets. Please review so invites can be sent
• Accelerator
  • Review updated roadmap
    • Sounds good, we just need to make sure people will find the matchings valuable (don’t want low attendance for problem solving/accountability meetings)
  • Review video tour of wiki
    • Looks good, we should post on YouTube and also upload the discussions there
• Content
• Weekly goals
  • Ecosystem
    • @Dario — coming up with cohorts for problem solving groups / accountability groups / working groups — basically tagging member directory and then grouping based on tags related to e.g. interest area, company stage, ways to help, etc.
      • 1 email for existing discord and new members with invite and group onboarding meeting date
      • meeting on zoom
    • @Channing Pear — design programming for accountability groups/problem solving groups + record videos for weeks 1-3
    • @Pablo Felgueres / @Anand — discussion schedule for next week with a later stage founder, marketed and hosted on either Twitter Spaces or Zoom
    • Plan cohort system. Existing + incoming members.
      • Onboarding
        • Matching people - label member directory + set up some group zoom calls
        • Cohort onboarding - bring in similar profiles at the same time. In email/dm that we send them the discord link, also send a calendly for an intro call with their cohort. One of us should be in the call to
        • Send videos out ~each week in the beginning
      • Programming
        • Week 1 — profiles + intros + tidbits, exploring discord
        • Week 2 — wiki + groups (problem solving groups/interest based)
        • Week 3 — Accountability groups
        • Week 4 — Check-in + working groups
        • Week 5 — workshops
        • Month 3 — Check-in
      • Output
        • Cohorts should share insights and findings via discord. Hopefully this will spark more discussion. These can be rolled into the newsletter
        • Tracking outcomes, etc.
    • Facilitated intros
  • Content

5/20

• Community
• Accelerator
  • Scheduled calls with manufacturing folks from Wednesday
  • Working on roadmap and update video this weekend, to share on Monday
• Content

5/18

• Community
  • Did a memetic retweet. 12 likes and 1 RT at time of writing
  • Responded to a bunch of backlogged twitter dm requests. Asked most for topic suggestions.
  • DM’ed Nikhil R. Gupta. He mentioned he is trying to raise his first round and is learning the process. A potential topic could be “Raising your first round as a hard tech startup”. We could bring in him, Jai (who he is working with), and other founders who have raised at least 1 round to hear the best practices they’ve found for hard tech specific startups. Potential questions:
    • How does the recent multiple retraction effect hard tech startups?
    • What metrics matter?
    • How much should you raise and how much of the company should you give up?
  • @Pablo Felgueres, I mentioned to Nikhil that you were interested in materials. He asked to meet you.
• Flag:
  • Twitter Spaces recordings are only hosted for 30 days. If we want them to be available, we’ll need to upload them elsewhere
  • Gov’t as a customer talk does not have summarized notes. Will we continue to provide those?
• Accelerator
  • Reached out to some manufacturing folks I met at the digital factory conference to see if they wanted to join us; scheduling calls with them once I hear back
    • Dusty Robotics
    • Stanley Black and Decker
    • MIT Media Lab
    • MIT Central Machine Shop
    • Formlabs
    • Vention
    • Tulip

5/16

• Discuss goals for the week + month, get it reflected on the project tracker
• Roadmap
• Incentives for contributing
  • make sure to have goal conversation with contributors to understand what they want to achieve with the organization
• Biggest ROI so far
  • Twitter spaces discussions
  • Meeting with sales teams of industrial companies
• Making streamlined formula for founder discussion — from meeting a late stage founder to the start of the discussion, spent 30 minutes total on planning
  • same agenda for every discussion of this format
  • < 5 minutes of work to get them to say yes + give details + integrate with calendar + send tweet reminders + schedule prep call
  • 15 minutes for the prep call (mutual preparation — understanding what they want to talk about + them understanding what our process is)
  • 15 minutes prep immediately prior to the discussion
• Newsletter + scheduling + planning 3 founder discussions + twitter