Starting a Community 🔗- Best Bosses are Humble 👟- Will there be a European Google ? 🇪🇺- Efficiency is the Enemy 🧘♀️- Le Grand Coeur ❤️🇫🇷
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#1 About Starting your Community with Christian Riedi from this Twitter thread from Greg Isenberg👇
For those of you who are familiar with getting a product market fit first, think of your community market fit as well 🔗
💡When to start a community ? ASAP (As soon as possible)
1) why you should care about community: - It's the best way to build a movement - It supercharges word-of-mouth - People want community more now than ever - Products built on-top of communities scale fast.
2) Start small. Start tiny : 95% of communities can start as a simple group chat.
3) High-performing community leaders : 1. Captivating 2. Consistent 3. Loud 4. Obsessed with the mission/people 5. Relentlessly helpful 6. Sincere.
4) Invite-only works : 95% of communities should begin as waitlists. B2B or B2C. Doesn’t matter.
5) Merch supercharges communities. Tip : hire streetwear designers to design your merch.
6) The secret to community design : get members they want to go (ie: milestones etc).
7) I’ve never found a community that thrived that didn’t have a compelling “who we are” story Key points : - Describe the future utopia - Describe the cause with passion - Amplify the real reason they exist.
8) Not all founding members are equal Tip : your first members set the tone. Choose wisely.
9) Community/market fit. Founders are obsessed about product/market fit. But don’t obsess enough about community/market fit.
10) The goal: Create daily/weekly rituals that make people feel alive and grateful to be apart of the community.
Find the original Twitter thread from Greg Isenberg here 🐤
Greg Isenberg is Co-Founder of Late Checkout, a product studio that designs, creates and acquires internet communities. He is also a growth advisor at TikTok and a venture partner at Indicator Ventures, a tech venture fund.
Christian Riedi, Business Angel & Writer at his newsletter Le Wrap Up 🇫🇷. x-Directeur Développement @TF1 with 15 year experience in media. You should check his newsletter as well if you like curation.
#2 Who are the Best Bosses with Maxime Renault from an article read in the Wall Street Journal 📰
💡Humility among leaders drive performance for companies and positive outcomes among employees: lower turnover and absenteeism ; closer collaboration ; smaller pay gaps...
💡Traditional thinking would favor charismatic, attention-seeking and persuasive people. "Yet such leaders tend to ruin their companies because they take on more than they can handle, are overconfident and don’t listen to feedback from others.”
-> Patagonia look for humility when they hire people by asking receptionists how the candidates behave with them.
-> In order to assess humility, which is tough because a lot of people pretend to be humble but are not, there are some scientific tests, including a free online one calculating the H factor. H factor comes from : Hogan's humility scale, derived from a scientific paper.
Source article published in October 2018 in the WSJ, The Best Bosses are Humble Bosses written by Sue Shallenberger.
Maxime Renault, is a socially engaged tech entrepreneur (x-Monbanquet.fr 🇫🇷). Maxime is also an investor and startup advisor. He is passionate about impact x technology and is involved in Entourage / LinkedOut to fight social exclusion. The Timestamp features him for the 2nd time with these key takeaways 📝.
#3 In Search of a European Google with Patrick Kervern from an article read in The Guardian
Why don’t we have a European Google ? According to David Galbraith from the Anthemis Fund : “The combined value of the top three internet companies in the Americas – so, basically, in America – is around $0.75tn (£0.5tn). In Asia, it’s around $0.5tn. In Africa, it’s $50bn. And in Europe, it’s just $25bn.”
“If you look at Europe now, we’re in the equivalent stage of being in, let’s say, 1920, with no car companies. No Citröen, no BMW, no Rolls Royce, no Fiat, nothing.”
Still according to Ophelia Brown from Index Ventures “It’s actually easier to start building a company today because of low-cost easy access to engineers" and as Tom Valentine, the co-founder and chief operating officer of London-based travel company Secret Escapes, says a company that can say “we grew up in Europe” has a strong selling point. Brown adds “The fact is, there is a lot of money for European startups now that can fund their growth to take them well beyond $2bn, $3bn."
Source article published in December 2015 in The Guardian, In Search of European Google written by Alex Hern, UK technology editor in The Guardian.
Patrick Kervern, Founder at UMANZ. Sense-Maker & Curiosity expert.
#4 Efficiency is the Enemy with Sylvain Gauchet from the Farnam Street FS blog
The topic that follows is deeply connected with mastering ‘in distraction’ like Nir Eyal calls it.
💡Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health.
💡Having a little bit of wiggle room allows us to respond to changing circumstances, to experiment, and to do things that might not work.
💡Being comfortable with sometimes being 0 percent busy means we think about whether we’re doing the right thing.
Source blog post can be found here.
Sylvain Gauchet is in charge of Mobile Growth at Babbel US. Sylvain is expert in mobile marketing. He also writes the newsletter Growth Gems 💎 where growth insights are mined.
#5 Le Grand Coeur with Denis Lenzeele from the book written by Jean-Christophe Rufin 📚
We are several big fans of this great book about Jacques Coeur. I hope that those who cannot read French will try to get it when it comes out in your language.
💡Jacques Coeur est issu d'une famille modeste et a su s'élever jusqu'à la cour du roi Charles VII, fils du roi Charles VI aussi appelé "roi fou". Il était chargé de l'argenterie. Il a aussi mis en place un système novateur du commerce entre les terres notamment par la mise en place de facteurs ayant une grande autonomie au sein de la "maison Jacques Coeur".
💡Jacques, à la fortune devenue immense, était même plus riche que le roi lui même. C'est lui qui a financé les armées de France qui ont permis de gagner contre les anglais et de mettre un terme à la guerre de 100 ans.
💡Charles VII, non digne de confiance, a eu le même comportement qu'il a eu avec Jeanne D'arc et s'est retourné contre Jacques Coeur qui était devenu plus riche que lui. Il l'a fait condamner quand il n'a plus eu besoin de lui et Jacques, après s'être enfui, mourru assassiné par des meurtriers qui le traquaient. Ils n'étaient pas envoyés par le roi mais par celui qui a pris la place de Jacques au sein de l'argenterie et qui avait pour lui une grande animosité.
More about this book published in March 2012 (Gallimard) here.
Denis Lenzeele is VP Engineering @Clind, formerly StickyADS.tv (👉Freewheel/Comcast) and passionate about history, react native and scrum.
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