Online Communities
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
How I Built This 
20VC
5 statements about Online Communities, every show
Schneider: Paid communities function as discovery engines for new products
“That community is basically the inception for what products you should build for that audience. Right. Cause they're going to talk about their problems. They're literally paying you to tell you what product you should build them.”
Medora: Community buyers care about delivered outcomes, not platform choice
“I think most people don't care is what I've found. Like just through surveys, like they don't, so long as they get what's promised on the page, like they don't care the delivery method.”
Ohanian: Online community relationships are often stronger than offline ones
“Online communities matter more to people than offline ones, and the relationships that people make, what I mean is, like, the community, like, capital C, like, you're my community, you're my people, you're my tribe, I want to hug you, like, people, like, that …”
Butterfield: Shutting an online community is like ending a small civilization
“Any of you who have participated in online communities, especially in the early days, where, like, the online community was the nexus of all of these friendships and all these relationships, when they disappeared, that's it. Like, people can say, we're gonna m…”
Hoover: Online communities must continually grow or they will die
“When you build a community, you have to not only seed it with the right kind of culture that you want, but then you have to make sure it grows, and you have to keep growing, otherwise it just dies. A lot of communities start, but they don't grow, and then they…”