Founder’s Club recap for our December 5th meeting…

[Give] Matthew Sharpe of Daring Boy shared the value of allowing your personality to come through in the design process. Taking the time to step back from the colours and nuts and bolts of building to remember why you’re building your business and then allowing the design process to draw that out.

[Take] We stuck with Matthew and spent some time discussing how he’s built up his design studio to date. After sharing where he’s at, we brainstormed where he’s heading, how to move there faster. A lot of the discussion, as often does, centered around narrowing in on who your customer is.

Founder’s Club is an interesting beast. In explaining what we do, I often say that our speakers, presentations, agendas exist only to kick off all the side conversations. The magic tends to happen after our ‘formal’ Give and Take parts of the evening when we share pints and splinter off to conspire with each other in more detail.

Next week, we have our friend Dave Bullock stopping by to lay some startup wisdom on us. If you’re curious to try an event out, let me know?