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 19, 2015-Dec 31, 2016 - added 265 members (avg 0.57/day) = 765

Jan 1, 2017 - June 13, 2017 - added 135 members (avg 0.8/day) = 900

June 14, 2017 - August 20, 2017 - added 100 members (avg 1.5/day) = 1000

August 21, 2017 - Dec 21, 2017 - added 175 members (avg 1.56/day) = 1175

December 22, 2017 - Oct 6, 2018 - added 237 members (avg 0.82/day) = 1412

October 7, 2018 - May 10, 2019 - added 118 members (avg 0.55/day) = 1530

June 2019 Update - Our group is Evolving

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: