Building Communities for Startups Podcast
Are you looking to launch a community for your next venture?
We designed this 10-episode series to help you understand the steps you need to take. In this series, we bring you insights from ten experienced community professionals who build successful communities and share exactly how they did it.
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We designed this template as a 10-step journey to getting your community off the ground. As you listen to the podcast episodes, you can follow the prompts, brainstorming questions, and to-do's in the duplicatable template.
Key takeaways from each episode for your reference
Insightful questions you can brainstorm with your team
Actionable to-do's you should complete for each step
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Latest Episodes
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#10 Scaling Your Community 10x with Talia Deer
In this final episode we talk with Talia Deer about what is takes to scale your community 10x. Talia is the Head of Community at TechGC, a private, invitation-only community for GCs/CLOs in tech. She also manages two sister communities - DeputyGC (for the 2nd and 3rds in command) and F Suite (built for CFOs).
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#9 Building User Communities with Jacob Gross
Together with Jacob, we talk about how to build a user communities around your product. Jacob shares his experience from building Slack user communities gobally.
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#8 Building Customer Communities with Katie Ray
Together with Katie, we talk about the best ways to design and build your customer community. Jenny shares her experience in building customer communities from the ground up to scale at companies like Outreach, Clari, or Metadata. Join us for the conversation!
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#7 GTM and Web 3 Communities with Diana Morgan
Together with Diana, we talk about how to build a Go-To-Market community for your company. Diana also shares her experience working in the Web3 space and her vision for Web3 x community.
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#6 Organic Growth and Word of Mouth with Caro Griffin
In this episode with Caro we chat about tweaks and experiences you can create to kick off the organic growth for your community. Caro shares her experience with getting members to drive the community sign ups and what actions helped her along the way.
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#5 Designing the Community Experience with Jennifer Serrat
In this episode with Jen we're talking all about designing an amazing community experience. We cover what does community experience mean in the first place and why it is so imporant for the success of your community. Then we dive deeper into what key elements go into creating an awesome experience for your members.
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#4 Getting the First 10, 50, and 100 Members with Jamie Langskov
Together with Jamie, we talk about how to launch your MVP community and activate the first members. Getting the first members is a big step in your community-building journey. Jamie talks about the best ways to prepare for launch and build up that member list.
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#3 Choosing the Right Community Platform with Tristan Lombard
We invited Tristan to chat to us about what goes into the process of choosing the right community platform. In this episode we dive into the key attributes you should be looking for in your community platform and what types of platforms are there.
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#2 Defining Your Community Strategy with Jenny Weigle
Together with Jenny, we talk about the best ways to design a strategy for your future community. Jenny shares her step-by-step process when creating a strategy from her experience with working with companies like Sephora, Etsy, Productboard, and others!
#1 The Power of Community with Max Rothery
Together with Max, we talk about defining the purpose of your community. Max shares great tips on the community-led mindset and its importance to the community's success and cross-company integration.