Hey, Joshua.

Summary

Desiree Driesenaar encourages Joshua to focus on the community aspect and personal stories behind Bread Funds rather than directly marketing his technology, suggesting outreach to Dutch 'Broodfondsmakers' and connecting with Anna Blume for insights on tech-based community solutions.

Abstract

Desiree Driesenaar acknowledges the potential impact of Bread Funds in America and advises Joshua to shift his approach from selling technology to engaging with communities. She recommends writing about the importance of community support for financial security, sharing personal stories, and revisiting the initial passion that sparked his interest in Bread Funds. Driesenaar offers to facilitate an introduction to Dutch Bread Fund experts and suggests Joshua connect with Anna Blume, an advocate for community-driven solutions with a focus on technology, to explore synergies in their efforts to leverage technology for community welfare and address global issues.

Opinions

Joshua should emphasize the 'why' behind Bread Funds, focusing on community benefits rather than the technology itself to avoid a commercial tone.
Personal stories and the intrinsic motivation for engaging with Bread Funds should be part of Joshua's narrative to resonate with the audience.
It's important to build relationships with the right groups and individuals before introducing his product to the market.
Driesenaar believes that initial movements and connections can lead to unexpected and potentially beneficial outcomes, even if there are no guarantees.
She values the role of communities in solving societal problems and sees technology as a tool that can support these efforts, as demonstrated by Anna Blume's work.
Driesenaar is open to leveraging her LinkedIn network to support Joshua's initiative and foster international collaboration on Bread Funds.

Hey, Joshua. How great that my one comment gave you such an insight! I do agree that America could certainly use Bread Funds.

So why not turn it around. Write about what community can do for people in search of security. Don’t focus just on your technology (it might sound too commercial to people), but write about the why. And about personal stories related to communities. And about the drive that got you in this adventure in the first place.

If you want, I could send an email to the ‘Broodfondsmakers’ in the Netherlands where Bread Funds are a reality. We could ask them for their opinion? They might have ideas about how to get Bread Funds into the USA.

Just don’t start with trying to sell your technology to them. Your focus, for now, should be on making Bread Funds rise and shine in the USA. And then the market might arise out of the contacts you made in the right group of people. Leave your product be for a bit and start relating to the groups and the people in them.

If you think an email to Broodfondsmakers in The Netherlands is a good idea, just link with me on LinkedIn and I’ll include you in an email to them. My experience is that it all starts with making some movement on this planet. No guarantees of course, but if we don’t get a reaction something else might come along that’s even better… Who knows what might happen next…

You might also like to follow Anna Blume (she doesn’t write a lot on Medium, is more on Facebook). She initiated a large worldwide community Impact Journey. We’re both firm believers in communities to solve world problems. She just does more with tech than I do. She develops basic income systems based on blockchain and other tech systems with the wellbeing of communities in mind. You might reach out to her and have some great techie discussions with someone who definitely will understand your tech struggles.

Happy connecting!