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By banding together, creators have the chance to change this, forming effective, high-signal syndicates. In doing so, they solve a critical issue for startups: distribution. By aggregating audiences, they can serve new companies to a large pool of consumers and businesses.

You know your company has a vibrant community when non-employees are volunteering to host events. CMX’s survey found the majority of businesses allow volunteers to run events on their behalf. Startups like Gatsby, Databricks, and Confluent have done a great job empowering the community to run their own events. For example, Kafka reached 50,000 meet... See more

In my experience with Hardbound, Gimlet, Substack, and now the Everything bundle, I’ve come to believe that content can create incredibly strong moats.

For example, sales at Blueland, an environmentally minded cleaning supply startup, have increased “pretty meaningfully” over the past several weeks — a “surge in demand” both from new customers and repeat buyers — to the point where demand now surpasses supply, co-founder and CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo tells The New Consumer.

-Using blockchains to implement new and experimental forms of ownership for land and other scarce assets, as well as new and experimental forms of democratic governance.

More than anything else, turning users into owners by default is simply the ultimate growth hack; this fundamental USP is why crypto is exploding in general – it offers people substantial opportunity, and it connects what they do online to their own direct betterment in real life.