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In Web3 era communities play a major role in the success of a project, so founders should prepare strategies that bring communities together with a solid purpose. Founders should think of ways to build organizations that are community-owned

The Community Builders

Community building is going to be one of the most important, if not the most important, skill set for future Founders across industries. You need a community and you need it as early as possible for whatever product that you’re going to build.

The work of building a great community goes much farther beyond simply moderating a Slack group. A great community needs regular events and meetups. They need ways for leaders to step up and invent their own traditions, create their own events, and run their own sub-groups. Leading a community requires making it easy for members to become advocates... See more

For social, culture, and art DAOs, go-to-market means building a community with a specific purpose — sometimes even starting as a text chat between friends — and growing it organically by finding other people who believe in that same purpose.

There are companies who have already been building online community spaces, and those who are doing it for the first time now. That's why the first question to ask is this: What point are you starting from?

Community building has been a core part of internet functionality since the very first sites. For most of us, our first use of the internet was jumping into a community. The difference now is that Web3 allows all communities to launch, manage and grow native online economies together that enrich the lives of a broader stakeholder group than ever be... See more