How to Build a Community

I was recently speaking with my friend Andrew Warner of Mixergy, a site with dozens of great interviews with a number of entrepreneurs, many of which have been featured both here in the blog and in the entrepreneurship course I teach at UC Berkeley. We are talking about how to build a community and he pointed me to an interview he did with two of the top users of Hacker News, a tech related social bookmarking site funded by Y Combinator, about how a successful community was built.

The interview really had some interesting points and I thought it would be wise to share it on AM Beat. Hence, I have pasted a summary of it below. Its a short video, less than 5 minutes long, and covers the importance of being different, creating a community for people who may work alone and want to come together online, promoting ”real-world” meetups for users, and off course, bribing users.