flâneur

From running communities to building for communities

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AngelList offers startups one platform for cap table management and fundraising. Companies like StabilityAI, Harness Wealth, and Syndicate migrated from other cap table vendors in less than a week to remove the friction from their back office. Learn more by signing up here. The creator economy is no longer a hot meme; many have already moved on to other areas with more hype. A popular category amongst startups building for creators was community platform products. Ceci Stallsmith, one of the prior Scatter Brain guests who worked on Slack’s developer platform, told me the following : “I help companies grow developer communities, so I believe community is a real unlock for growing a business. I think the software being built here is good, but I have many questions about how it is differentiated from CRM. If I were building in this space, I’d pivot hard into becoming a modern CRM with community elements layered on effectively for different parts of the business to leverage. This space sho

Today’s Scatter Brain is brought to you by AngelList! AngelList offers startups one platform for cap table management and fundraising. Companies like StabilityAI, Harness Wealth, and Syndicate migrated from other cap table vendors in less than a week to remove the friction from their back office. Learn more by signing up here. The creator economy is no longer a hot meme; many have already moved on to other areas with more hype. A popular category amongst startups building for creators was community platform products. Ceci Stallsmith, one of the prior Scatter Brain guests who worked on…

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