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A vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living, from the cofounder of Kickstarter.
Yancey Strickler • This Could Be Our Future by Yancey Strickler: 9780525560845 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
the secret to spreading the word: attracting others can’t just be your job.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
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Advice: Do things that don’t scale—go direct to your potential supply and convince them to try your platform.
Lenny Rachitsky • Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplace
The inescapable truth is that you’ll have to exceed expectations with your core activity if you want people to show up and keep showing up.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
4. Build Awesome Things. And the idea here is that— I actually think that there’s a pretty big difference between things that are valuable and things that are awe inspiring and amazing.
Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)
Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup, told us during a workshop, “people show up for the meetup but they come back for the people.”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off becau... See more