A founders guide to community. Uncommunity #33
Hi there,
This is Rafy. I was OOO for more than 4 weeks and hence couldn’t send out a newsletter or release a podcast episode. Definitely, a mistake from my end. So many things have happened in the community in the last 4 weeks. This just proves that the community is moving too fast and we cannot keep up. Super excited for what’s to come for people involved in building community. More power to us. 🚀🚀🚀
Let's dive in! Here are a few links on all things community.
What are we reading/listening to?
A founder’s guide to community. When to invest in the community, how to get started, setting goals, crafting a strategy, hiring, scaling, and much more - guest post by OG David Spinks. Read the full piece here.
Community—so hot right now. Ask any founder if they’ve thought about building a community and 9 out of 10 times you’ll get an immediate yes. And for good reason. Companies like Atlassian, Glossier, Datadog, Twitch, dbt, Salesforce, Peloton, and many others have succeeded in large part due to the passionate community they built around their early products.Say What?! Rewards for Communication in Internet Communities. Incentives matter. We do what is incentivized, avoid what is disincentivized, and ignore what is not incentivized. A key way to set incentives is through rewards. Give someone a trophy for winning, and they’ll try harder to win. This is such a good post by Ian Vanagas. Check out the full article here.
Building Web3 Communities in Discord. Think of Discord Servers as a Funnel, not as a Community Space. Cagri Yalcin dives into setting up a Discord Server for the Web3 community. Check out the piece on Rosieland.
7 steps to build a community-driven business. How do you actually, tactically build a community-driven business? It requires effort but I believe in you - humans are natural community-builders! Author Nivi Achanta shares 7 steps on how to build a community-driven business. Read here.
Build a network of people who care.
Put up a sign so people can find you.
Share what you're doing.
Get serious about content.
Set up the right legal infrastructure.
Stay on top of community health.
Put the right people in charge and empower them to succeed.
[PODCAST] The NSFW Framework and the Magic of Community-Product Fit with Amanda Goetz. Sometimes the best products don't start as products. In this episode of Where It Happens, Amanda Goetz, founder of House of Wise, shares her amazing journey of building a community and creating products that are breaking the stigmas surrounding women's health. Hosts Greg Isenberg and Sahil Bloom) explore a news concierge business and discuss the potential of the NSFW framework. Listen to the full episode.
[PODCAST] Bored Ape Yacht Club. Eric Golden is a former Portfolio Manager at Fidelity. We cover the Bored Ape Yacht Club in detail, use Bored Apes as a lens to understand how NFT projects are creating strong membership communities, and explore the tools projects are using to differentiate themselves. Listen to the 1st Episode of Web3 Breakdowns with Patrick O'Shaughnessy. Listen to the full episode.
Startups only talk about building community and nothing else.
Web3. Web3. Web3.
MVP in Product and MVC in Community.
Always Start Small.
Build community first.
thank you ☕
for joining us in our journey. We both have full-time jobs and we have built Uncommunity in our free time as we have been exploring ways to give back and support fellow community builders in their journeys.
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Thanks Rafy!