Los Alamos Entrepreneur Network

I went to a surprisingly productive meeting last night of the Los Alamos Entrepreneur's Network. We met at the Hive and started to talk about how to use the Hive to get networking and products done in Los Alamos and independent of LANL and government grants.

The next meeting is at noon on 12 January and should be productive. It was productive for a while. I was the president for a while. I ran meetings with clear agendas. Then, in March 2012, the members had their first official election. They elected a guy who promised to do nothing entrepreneurial. He wanted to chat with people. They elected a vice president who had never come to any meetings. I did the entreprenuerial thing. I calculated my Return on Investment on going to the meetings or planning activities for the members. The ROI was strongly negative. The Entrepreneur's network had become a coffee klatch. So I did what any good entrepreneur should. I kept talking to the entrepreneurs that I had met and stopped doing anything with the Los Alamos Entrepreneurs' Network. I told my friends among the members that I would come back when my personal ROI exceeded 1.2. So far I seem to have made the right decision. Fascinating.