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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. But Detroit prevailed in large part because a handful of companies within the auto manufacturing community served as “tentpoles,” firms so powerful and successful that they anchored an entire economic ecosystem. as do manufacturing workers.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

TechCrunch

Here are a few related articles we’ve run in recent weeks: Growth marketing. TechCrunch+) Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth: To uncover some insights into driving viral growth, John Biggs interviewed: Mariusz G?siewski, Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth.

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Article Roundup: December 5

Forward Cities

Every day, our communities face new challenges that are met head-on by leaders and entrepreneurs aiming to make a difference. Here is a selection of articles to stimulate the conversation: Museums, Neighborhoods, and Gentrification: Lessons from the Nation’s Capital. Our question is, why can’t ALL our solutions be community-focused?

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Connect Your Startup Community through Content Creation

Ecosystem Builder Hub

There is another mechanism that ecosystem builders can use to have a huge impact connecting their communities—create and maintain an online hub of information about your startup community. While the engaging, heartwarming stories about entrepreneurs are great, we also need to share the more mundane happenings in our community.

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. In many ways, it’s a vertical-specific version of the chess MasterClass he did years ago, with a big focus on community and variety. Kasparovchess is significantly more expensive.

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Playground launches in beta to help creators cultivate community

TechCrunch

Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. For now, the beta is open to select creators in the cultural space (art, music, wellness, gaming, and more), and for community members, there’s a waitlist.

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Bigger Isn?t Always Better: 4 Benefits of Staying Small

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When I started to research this article, my working title was How to break geographic self-bottlenecking. Pursuing outside interests Maybe you’ve always wanted to teach a class at your local college, get more involved in your community or make an impact with a charitable organization that speaks to you. Not worth it.” Well said, Renée!