On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 7:17 AM Sam Chase <samantha@venn.agency> wrote: > Have you ever considered joining your initiative to one of the many > established groups in our extended community? Funding new initiatives that > aim to achieve similar goals or solve similar problems is an uphill battle. > I’ve got $10M backed for a data sovereignty education prize but finding > people to collaborate with effectively was far easier when I decided to > join and collaborate and not crusade a new foundation. I only say this > because finding money was super easy. Finding smart people that care about > the problem space and have the headspace and capacity to fix it isn’t > something money solves. In fact it attracted a ton of assholes to me and I > told the family that put up the money that the initiative would wait until > a more I could find established community of peers. > +100 -- Heather Vescent <http://www.heathervescent.com/> President, The Purple Tornado, Inc <https://thepurpletornado.com/> Author, A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity <https://ssiscoop.com/> Author, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual <http://amzn.to/2i2Jz5K> @heathervescent <https://twitter.com/heathervescent> | Film Futures <https://vimeo.com/heathervescent> | Medium <https://medium.com/@heathervescent/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathervescent/> | Future of Security Updates <https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/325779/>
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