How You Build in Public - Build in Public Definitive Guide
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How You Build in Public - Build in Public Definitive Guide
We’ve never been the type to keep secrets. If you keep your cards too close to your chest, you’re not going to get mentorship from the world, and it’s going to take you a lot longer to accomplish what you set out to do.
Brett Leve • Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community
Building in public has obvious advantages. Levels shares almost all of its thinking publicly. That includes all-hands meetings and working sessions between company founders. Opening its doors has been a sharp move: despite being in beta, Levels has a groundswell of consumer support that’s unusual for a company at its stage.
readthegeneralist.com • Levels: A Cultural Anomaly | the Generalist
recommend beginning with just one clear goal and then expanding over time.
Richard Millington • Build Your Community: Turn your connections into a powerful online community
By the end of the weekend, everyone was asking how they could help build this community with us. We told everyone no photos were allowed. They could tell as many people as they wanted in person, but they couldn’t email anyone about it or post on social media. We wanted it to be shared one-on-one. We’d learned just how crucial this strategy was when
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"Builder communities" that are oriented around an activity? (making open source software, playing Minecraft, choreographing dance routines, etc) Getting to know ppl by doing something alongside them is often better than milling around and talking. This was true of offline communities already, but can we now use that as a design principle for online... See more