Dear all, following up on this and also on @Thomas_Hepner 's nice update about the DATA Economy Index, I strongly believe that outside of engineering or liquidity support one of the main benefits of Index.Labs would be on the business / growth hacking side of things.
In my mind this particularly applies to aspiring community methodologist who could benefit from the mentoring of the Coop’s established growth / marketing team as well as from a wider reach via the Coop’s (or Index.Labs specific ?) channels, for example to conduct market surveys.
This would be an efficient way for the Coop to coordinate the methodologists prospection efforts towards potential partners or investors, instead of relying exclusively on individual approaches 
example : “Index.Labs currently has product A, B & C under incubation. Which product are you most excited about ?” …