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Idea HN: a master mind group to help each other out

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Are any of you interested in forming a small "mastermind" group of 4 or 5 people in which each member would be familiar with one another's startups, and throughout the week, whenever you see a connection, or story, or anything of interest for any of the other members, you would send an email, or post to a member-only discussion board.

Each member would need to have a non-competing business, so there's no conflicts of interest. The whole purpose is to help each other out creatively with ideas or connections they may have never thought of.

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I'd be interested. I don't quite fit the bill as I'm currently a director at a non-profit association serving the privacy profession, but have worked in and around startups for 20 years.

Why I want to participate: My current job has made me painfully aware of how many B2C startups are simply not paying attention to privacy laws, regulations and best practices. So much of it is simple for a startup to implement and really painful for an established organization. That makes for a ridiculously huge potential competitive advantages for those that get it right early.

My email is in my profile if anyone is interested and, coincidentally, for more specifics on this topic I'm writing a blog post that should be ready to go in a couple of days.

I'm a member of a very good mastermind and it is invaluable. There are 100 people in it, which makes it an incredible resource, but hard to keep up at times. Small ones might be hard to find the right people, and if this gets traction, a lot of people would want into it, meaning lots of small master mind groups.

Tricky to organize, but with the right people in it, I would be interested as well.

I have lots of ideas on how to make this into a startup and to organize this. Even have the domain mentormatcher.com for it. No time right now though.

Wow... 100 people seems like it'd be really unwieldy... Do they sub-divide the group into functional areas?

It's a work in progress. It's like a private club where anyone who doesn't fit is culled out and the quality keeps going up. We're playing with ways to keep it organized. The size means we always have a resource to go to and we all help each other out with whatever we need, without anyone getting overwhelmed.

Hi, I am running a startup that helps people organize mastermind groups. I'd love to see if my product can help your group self-organize into smaller groups. Please contact me if you are interested (aymeric[at]goalstribe.com)

OK, if you're interested, email me at gregg3001@gmail.com with "mastermind" in the subject and tell me a little about yourself and your startup. I'll get something organized and see if we can make it happen.

Yea, I guess that could work out very well if properly set up & organized, count me in.

According to Napoleon Hill's "Mastermind" principle? Sure, count me in.

Sure, I'd be interested in something like that.

Sounds good to me.

I'd be interested

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