Weekly founder/CEO only skype calls for cohorts ? Get advice from other CEOs at your stage?

I'm thinking of setting up weekly skype calls of cohorts for networking purposes as well as to get advice from other CEOs at your stage.

Here's the general idea.

We split up into cohorts of approximate startup size.

You have to either be the founder or CEO/CTO or both.

Cohorts would be broken out into stages:

• no-revenue , proof of concept
• $200->$5000 MRR
• $5000->15000 MRR
• ... etc.

Then the format is generally:

• 1 minute intro. What your company can do. What you can offer the group.
• 5 minute per member Q/A .

The mic goes from person to person and each person gets 5 minutes. You should explain the main problem you're currently having and the rest of the group tries to solve it for you and offer advice.

For example if you can't find a developer or are having difficulty recruiting the rest of the team can pitch suggestion for solving your problem.

ALL of this would have to be off the record. This is a private call.

Each cohort would be 6 in size. This gives us 30 minutes for each person then I'd like to open it up if someone is having a major challenge that needs more help. So say you have 30 days to live and your company is going to die. Then we can spend like the remaining 15 minutes to try and help you out.

Thoughts on this?

Since this is just skype we can do this from anywhere on the planet.

If you're interested drop a line with a URL to your company, rough cohort size (nr of users, revenue, and we can take it from there).

You can also send me a private email (see my profile) and I can update a spreadsheet I'm maintaining.

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