Yesterday I attended the maiden meeting of the Kitchener-Waterloo Entpreneurs Executive at the Board Room in TechTown in the Technology Park next to the University of Waterloo at 2 PM.
Attending were myself, Daniel Ogilvie, Harp Arora, Ashwani Nandrajog and his friend Kapur, Jose Sandoval, and Jennifer Janik.
It was a very lively meeting and each person agreed to report on his or her experience of the meeting in order to generate more discussion from the over 160 members of the group.
The following is what I took away from the meeting personally:
-The group will continue to grow on-line if members are getting what they need from the group. There was a reason why each group member joined and if that reason is satisfied, then the group will grow; it is meeting real needs.
-an overarching goal is for group members to expand their businesses, increase sales, and meet their business requirements.
-a survey of the group's members should be done in order to look for clusters of need and experience in order to give group members what they need
-a common vision workshop would help to confirm the findings of the survey
-K-W Entrepreneurs may be the first group of K-W Entrepreneurs online
-there is interest in establishing cross-functional teams amongst members that can work together on getting contracts and fulfilling them.
The bottom line was that the group should be used by members to get the things that they need for their businesses. If the group does this, then it will continue to grow.
I invite you to submit your ideas as to where the group should go and what it should do. Guest blogger status is available to those who ask for it.
Photo was taken by Executive Member Harp Arora.
It was a great first meeting with lots of energy and ideas. I hope we can keep the momentum.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your message, Jose. It was really great to meet you and I look forward to working with you in the future. As long as people are getting some of what they want, they will keep joining the group.
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