Convener: Kevin Koym and Tapan Bhargave
notetaker: Tapan Bhargave
Cultural Disruption
Entrepreneurs: motivation
What’s your Why? disruptive path burning need, why did God put you on Earth?
Mechanics of getting business done.
Individuals don’t consider how they’re training themselves à continually training yourself.
Entrepreneurs isolate themselves vs being continually in a learning process. Knowledge flows à knowledge has to continue to flow. Cover yourself.
Culture that made the country song è at the basis of the US success è we’re going to help each other.
Launched venture in Mexico, in Chile can still see community happening.
Entrepreneurs have forgotten
Structure – how are we all connected?
Food trailers vs McDonald’s in WalMart?
Is a structure set up in a way where we can resolve to having something happen?
Social network structure for some other group – talk to the man about financial capital. Set up simple systems that you can resolve into a result. Financial Capital system à expectation about funding. This is a limitation.
Structure – not having all the financial capital you need.
Oppenheimer bomb – first atomic bomb.
Destroying something – lots of responsibility that goes with that.
Get caught up in the shininess of the object we end up destroying something
Next Economy – if not cognizant – could become biggest slavery ever.
Model – make sure you know what’s in your heart – your passion.
Next Econ : Chamber of Commerce
Texas Green Network
Tapan: viable career path – 40 hours
Kevin: coffee club, where this country came from, lowly worker would be right next to the rich guy – American Revolution came out of those coffee clubs
Google Doc – coffee clubs. Creating culture – manufacturing culture; formalized. Techranch…
The “Regulars” – an educational system – Joe Bush – coffee at 9AM on Friday morning on back porch of Mozarts.
Nicko – gave Texas Green Network credits example:
Kevin offered “excess capacity” in the form of “space @ Techranch”
Capacity Exchange – experiment – demo by EarthBenign – trace the links, establishing links.
Austin Cooperative Business Association - an advocate of co-op economies
Mention googlegroup, wiki in the email to everybody