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5 Reasons to Be a Part of a Business Community

Smart Hustle Magazine

Being a part of the business community plays a critical role in the success of small business owners. If you look at the thriving small business owners, you will find that most of them are outstanding community players. To be a part of a community offers you much-needed guidance to survive in a difficult time like now.

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Thinking of Community as Marketing When You're Not Marketing Anything

This is going to be BIG.

Sounds a lot like "community," doesn't it? Communities should be built around values, not around products, so you don't need to wait until you have a product to launch a community. That's actually an exciting opportunity because you have a year to develop a really thriving community around reducing stress.

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What is an Ecosystem Builder

Ecosystem Builder Hub

One of the challenges in turning ecosystem building into a recognized profession is the lack of a recognized definition for what it is and what an ecosystem builder is. Clearly, if we’re going to come up with a professional definition of what ecosystem building is, it needs to include this connector/connecting aspect. Community Focus.

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3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023

TechCrunch

For us as a company, this means not cutting back where it might impact growth, but definitely being conservative and foregoing costly opportunities or hiring roles that won’t yield the highest impact or returns in the first two quarters or more of 2023,” she said. Still, we don’t want to only float; we want to fly.

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Arianna Simpson of a16z on Yield Guild Games, the firm’s newest bet on crypto + gaming

TechCrunch

The community on there is really incredible and often one of the first places where really exciting new projects are surfaced. At this point, scaling internationally is definitely a core focus for the YGG team. How did you first come across this digital horse racing business? TC: You mentioned crypto Twitter. AS: All of the above.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. “But once we started opening up community spaces, that’s when all the students started rushing in and setting up pomodoro rooms …24/7.” More than 7.3

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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

TechCrunch

In April, Labster signed a contract to bring its services to the entire California Community College network, which includes more than 2.1 Other startups, including Inspirit, are also aiming to bring the creativity associated with games such as Minecraft or Roblox to the day-to-day schoolwork of students around the world.