How I Learned to Build Community and Why You Should Learn Too

Hi friends,

How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋 

We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)

📚 3 Good Articles for You

Forget Networking and Build Your Personal Board of Directors Instead
by Ha Nguyen (8 mins)
Building a personal board of directors is more valuable than traditional networking. This group of trusted advisors invests in your success and well-being, providing diverse perspectives and brutal honesty. They know your strengths and areas for improvement and can offer insights on pivotal career decisions. The people on your board should be those who care deeply about your success and have seen you in action. To build your board, look for opportunities to show your skills and expertise to those you admire. Surrounding yourself with supportive advisors can help you become the best version of yourself, professionally and personally.
🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

How I Learned to Build Community and Why You Should Learn Too
by Peter Yang (4 mins)
The author learned that building community is the most important skill they acquired in 2021. They built Talk through community-led product development with moderators, grew their audience through useful advice and shitposting, and wrote a beginner's guide to crypto that went viral. They offer five tips for building a successful community: have a clear mission, focus on core contributors, prioritize onboarding, use a gratitude channel, and kindle small fires. Building a community is a big commitment, but it's a critical skill to develop as it's now easier than ever for a group of internet friends to create something great.
🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

Burning Bad: Cash burn, cash runway and valuation
by CJ Gustafson (5 mins)
Valuations for startups are no longer solely based on growth, with profitability now playing a bigger role. Startups need funding to get going, but the point of raising money is to delay the pursuit of free cash flows and focus on market opportunities. Cash burn is the amount of money a company uses to subsidize current operations, while cash runway is the number of months until cash runs out. Leading indicators for future business success include CAC payback period, LTV to CAC, net retention, gross margin, and burn multiple.
🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

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📣 Community

• 🟨 Reached 3M Community Highlights:
  Congratulations to all of you 🎉 We reached 3M community highlights (digital legacies) in total! Our team is working hard to improve Glasp and bring a better experience to you, so please bear with us 🙇‍♂️ Happy learning!

• 🟩 Read5for5:
  We're going to have the Read5for5 challenge in the week of June 19th! We will share the details this weekend. Let's read good articles and connect with like-minded people.

• 🟥 Community Meetup:
  We'll have a monthly community meetup at 10 am on June 16th (PDT). We're looking forward to seeing you all! Please feel free to jump in and out. You can register for the event from here 🤝

• 🟦 How to Search for Authors on Glasp :
  Did you know that you can search for authors and see their highlighted articles? Please try it out and find your favorite authors & Glaspers' readings!

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👀 Featured Curator on Glasp

Agata
Agata lives in Warsaw, Poland. She is a CX Specialist and UX designer working with many clients. She reads a lot about CX, design, AI, and more! Please also check her use case, too!

Agata

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🐣 User’s Hatch

Here’s an insightful hatch by Gigi Kenneth

The Rise of Femtech and Its Relevance

Hatch is a new feature that generates new ideas/articles by finding common points in two articles. Please check here to see how to use it.

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❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• We found that Glasp was featured in the articles below. Thank you for writing about Glasp!

  • Three AI tools I use every day on Conor Grennan’s YouTube

  • 35+ free AI tools to boost your productivity on ExpressVPN

  • 30 Best Chrome Extensions for Personal Productivity in 2023 on TMETRIC

  • How To Use AI To Make Money On YouTube – 7 Ideas For Optimizing Creative Flow on Microsoft Start

Thank you all for sharing and mentioning us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and/or in your blogs 🙂 We appreciate all of your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time! Also, feel free to join our Slack community ;)

Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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