Our Growth

Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2014 - From the four co-founders, we added 300 members (avg 0.27/day!),

Jan 1, 2015 - Sept 18, 2015 - added 200 members (avg 0.77/day) = 500

Sept 18, 2016-Dec 31, 2016 - added 265 members (avg 0.57/day) = 765

The First 3 years - Jan 2012-Dec 2014

Our convener Prof. Nabil Harfoush summarized the groups history and next steps in this blog post.

The First 18 months - Jan 2012-Mid 2013

A place to record how we got here... based on Nabil's introduction to Bob Willard at the July 2012 SSBMG meeting and his briefing of FftF on Dec 14, 2012...

• OCAD faculty perspective
• Alex Osterwalder Business Model Generation Business Model book and "Book Chunk" Process
• Alex's Literary Agent, Jeffery Kramer's Perspective
  
• Alex Osterwalder Business Models Beyond Profit project and SlideShare presentation
• Practitioner Perspective
• "Business Models Set to Explode" by Paul Hobcraft
  
• How did Antony Upward and the other co-founders come to the SSBMG

Below a personal view, by co-founder Antony Upward, of the first ~18 months of the SSBMG's existence: