davidspinks

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The Peter Pan Effect(davidspinks.substack.com)
1 points by davidspinks 4y ago|1 comments
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by davidspinks 4y ago
Every company starts as a community. As they grow up, they just forget. They must return to Neverland.
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Are Community and Wealth at Odds?(davidspinks.substack.com)
2 points by davidspinks 4y ago|1 comments
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by davidspinks 4y ago
Wealth is something rarely talked about amongst community builders. It's taboo. But there's an opportunity to have a more nuanced conversation about the intersection of business and belonging. Are capital and community at their be
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Is Community the Newest Pillar in the Venture Capital Business Model?(cmxhub.com)
23 points by davidspinks 12y ago|0 comments
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The 10 Unscalable Tactics Quibb Used to Build Its Early Community(cmxhub.com)
6 points by davidspinks 12y ago|0 comments
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by davidspinks 12y ago
Adding some sort of kickstarter functionality to this would be really interesting. Or making it possible to earn ownership points by investing money, though I imagine that might alter the purity of the community dynamic. Excited to see how
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by davidspinks 12y ago
Really solid list of tools for any startup that's building a new community from the ground up. Love to see more companies "building in public".
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How I Got Fired From a Hot Startup(whatspinksthinks.com)
1 points by davidspinks 12y ago|1 comments
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7 Signs You're Fundraising Too Early(whatspinksthinks.com)
2 points by davidspinks 13y ago|0 comments
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11 Epiphanies I’ve Had While Building My Startup(whatspinksthinks.com)
2 points by davidspinks 13y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin to host its own Black Friday(money.cnn.com)
1 points by davidspinks 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidspinks 13y ago
It was definitely broad and sure doesn't cover the entire spectrum of companies. I do believe that it include a whole lot of startups today though, and I hope that this helps them think about how to better set themselves up to succeed.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
How am I shutting down debates? I think it's important to respond to anyone who has a unique perspective.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
"Some business models are "get as many users as possible, get acquired, and live as a loss leader for a larger organization" and that's perfectly fine." I agree, and address that in the article.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Yea that's a good point...though one could argue that they're still selling a product, the insurance. But yea this model may require a different approach.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
So you disagree with what the post is saying?
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by davidspinks 13y ago
I'm trying to respond to the content of your post. If it's such common sense then it should be easy to come up with examples. I'd argue that there isn't much in between. Either you're building a company that has to
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by davidspinks 13y ago
"maybe some products should not be free and the creators should consider paying for them"? Not sure what you mean by the creators should consider paying for them.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Any examples?
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by davidspinks 13y ago
How is this marketing? It's about validating an idea to make sure you're building the right thing.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
"Like, getting situated, getting everything working, working out the kinks, evaluating possible monetization models, etc. etc." What does getting situated mean? Working out what kinks? People aren't paying for your product th
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Your Product is Going to Fail if you Don’t Ask Users to Pay(whatspinksthinks.com)
19 points by davidspinks 13y ago|25 comments
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Building TEDx: A Worldwide Open Source Brand Community(thecommunitymanager.com)
1 points by davidspinks 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Issues should be solved now so use the original url.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Sorry about that, should be better now, replaced the broken caching plugin with w3edge.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
I had one installed but it wasn't working for some reason. I replaced it with W3Edge now and it's working great. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Site should be performing better now. W3edge helped with caching. Thanks for reading.
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by davidspinks 13y ago
Sorry about the server issues. Cached version: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?&d=760352947104&mkt=en-US&set...
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by davidspinks 13y ago
That's a fair point and probably a much better use of the mantra. Unfortunately, that's often not how it's applied, in my experience.

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