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Community as a Business Value | David Spinks, Co-Founder of CMX

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Community as a Business Value | David Spinks, Co-Founder of CMX

The answer cites Spinks on starting with 10 to 50 founding members. This is Spinks himself, at length, on what community actually has to earn a company before it counts as a growth engine, with the failure modes he has watched up close.

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The question it answers

  1. Community-led growth gets talked about endlessly. Which companies actually did it, and what did it take?

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