Lincoln Russell’s Post

When private equity buys online community platforms, who wins? Usually, community pros are among the losers. Lincoln Russell used Vanilla Forums for community building long before joining the company. He eventually became the director of engineering. After leaving for another role, Lincoln continued to use Vanilla Forums, and it was subsequently purchased by Higher Logic, backed by private equity. This gives him a unique perspective for our latest episode, where we talk about how community software changes as ethos, goals, and ownership change. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/guDHWKKF #OnlineCommunities #CommunityManagement #CommunityManager #CMGR #PrivateEquity

Receiving money in dollars has been extra exciting for me ever since Mainstack partnered with Grey (YC W22) to provide a Payout option. This allows users like myself to pay directly into their Grey Dollar account without stress. All you need to do is add your Grey tag to Mainstack and that's it. Amazing, right? Go try it out and give me feedback. #mainstackxgrey #greyfinance #dollaraccount #emailmarketing #learnwithsapphire

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For the investors out there – in the world of 2024 when building products is easier than ever – do you prefer 🅰️ – Founder with no product, but customers / users acquired pre-product, or 🅱️ – Founder with a working product, but no customers / users I think 2024 will create an increasing amount of type A Founders – they will have the more valuable piece first, and a better starting point to build their products form Food for thought – we push so hard for MVPs, but where's the push for MVI (Minimum Viable Interest) you should get before writing a single line of code?

The success of the open-source community thrives on mutual support from around the world. We recently shared how Oetiker and Partners AG developed a solution to more easily showcase ThinLinc's benefits: Docker! Looking ahead, Tobias Oetiker expressed O+P AG's interest in launching a new version of Writing SmokePing 2.0 (www.smokeping.org). "If there's someone willing to fund the project, the new version would feature a modern web interface and a fully asynchronous backend for greatly enhanced performance". It would be incredible, wouldn't it? Any online investors? If you, like O+P AG, have a project with ThinLinc, share it with us! Let's promote great projects and strengthen bonds in the open-source community.

This week's C-Council #TopTip is on Capital. Find out what the Scale CEO C-Council shared at their recent meetings. Interested in one of BC Tech's exciting C-Councils? Send us an email at [email protected]. Learn more about available C-Councils here https://bit.ly/3xPJBI7

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Important commentary from Edward van der Hout using Dropbox DocSend data. It is hard to extract this data from conversations (despite hearing it from multiple sources), so I am impressed by this innovative approach monitoring how investors look at pitch decks. As a refresher on the problem - it has been found that female founders spend more time addressing questions justifying risk and cost, and are asked less about upside and opportunity. It is assumed that this leads to a higher reluctance to invest. How to tackle this? Awareness first. We all have biases and we need to monitor them. Knowing that women are offered less time to present their vision and the opportunity, carve out some dedicated time for that. As with job interviews, the more structure we introduce to these Q&As, the more objective we can be. 💪 Thanks for sharing Ed!

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