10+ Best Articles on Community Building
The most useful articles on community building from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Community Building Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on community building by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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How to seed your community: A content collection
How do you seed your community? We’ve put together a collection of pieces to help you seed your community so you can scale its impact, empower your business, build products users love, and tap into…
«Membership, engagement, business impact, and responsiveness.»
How to successfully build a community around your startup
You can sign up to the #nomads community here The hardest part of startups these days is not building the product or app. It’s getting people to actually use what you built. One of the goals of me launching 12 startups in 12 months was to find out how exactly do you do that? Well, ...
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The Laws of Community: How to Score in Business Through Community-Building
Community should be a pivotal strategy in your Customer Success journey, driving real business results and value for the customer.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on community building—all under 10 minutes.
Lessons from Notion on building a thriving decentralized community
Ben Lang, Head of Community at Notion, shares his playbook for how to tap into your product evangelists and build a powerful community that grows from dozens to millions.
Community-Led Marketing: Inspired by DAOs
Even though a great product is essential for success, building a strong community with community-led marketing can help an idea spread.
To Start Building a Community, Master These Two Concepts
Increasingly, building a successful startup involves not only building a product that people can’t get enough of, but also building an engaged, loyal community around that product. Today, most…
Five Pillars of Building Developer Communities at HashiCorp
Even from the very early days at HashiCorp, community building was deeply ingrained in our company’s ethos.
The Community Canvas
The Community Canvas is a framework that helps people and organizations build stronger communities. It provides a template for anyone who brings people together.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on community building.
Maven's Path to Product-Market Fit
In the second post for our new series, "Paths to Product-Market Fit," Maven founder and CEO Kate Ryder sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to share the inside story of the first female-led…
«Far too often, folks building companies in fields that they’re the target audience for skip this step, instead jumping straight to building. But extensive problem validation is critical, even if you’ve got a super strong hunch and some anecdotal feedback to support your hypothesis.»
A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Community and Getting Your First 1,000 Members
Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a…
Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics
Frameworks for thinking about web3 go-to-market strategy, community building, organizational structure, and token economics.
What We Can Learn from Decentralized Community Building
Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed a meteoric rise in the power of decentralized community-building. In a crypto-native, ownership-first era, users are opting to spend their time in digital…
From Instant Pot to Instagram: Critical Lessons in Startup Community Building
Bailey Richardson (an early Instagram hire and current partner at People & Company) has studied ordinary people who started extraordinary communities. Here, she shares the nuts and bolts of how…
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