047 - Building the world's largest community of entrepreneurs, with Francisco Cruz
03/02/22 • 48 min
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In this occasion, we talk to the man, the myth, the legend, mr. Francisco Cruz, who spearheaded the community growth of Startup Grind globally, since their very first days to well over 300 chapters worldwide. Nowadays, he works at Notion, but that's not very relevant because we miss him at Startup Grind.
At MarsBased, we have been organising the Startup Grind chapter of Barcelona since we founded the company, in early 2014, and continue to do so eight years after, without ever having skipped a single month. Month in, month out, we are hosting events with the most relevant entrepreneurs and investors around.
Back to topic: with Francisco, Àlex discusses community building, cohorts of new applicants, bootstrapping an initiative like this, values-driven organisations, hosting events and conferences, cultural differences and they walk down nostalgia lane, hand in hand, reminiscing about days gone by.
If you're curating a community and are building tools to nurture it, either with code or no code, this episode is for you!
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/¡
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
BOOM! the audio intros and outros are gone! We keep improving and iterating this podcast thanks to your feedback, making it a little bit better every day.
In this occasion, we talk to the man, the myth, the legend, mr. Francisco Cruz, who spearheaded the community growth of Startup Grind globally, since their very first days to well over 300 chapters worldwide. Nowadays, he works at Notion, but that's not very relevant because we miss him at Startup Grind.
At MarsBased, we have been organising the Startup Grind chapter of Barcelona since we founded the company, in early 2014, and continue to do so eight years after, without ever having skipped a single month. Month in, month out, we are hosting events with the most relevant entrepreneurs and investors around.
Back to topic: with Francisco, Àlex discusses community building, cohorts of new applicants, bootstrapping an initiative like this, values-driven organisations, hosting events and conferences, cultural differences and they walk down nostalgia lane, hand in hand, reminiscing about days gone by.
If you're curating a community and are building tools to nurture it, either with code or no code, this episode is for you!
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/¡
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
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046 - The secret sauce of newsletters, with Jessica Ford (Startup Digest)
We have been curating the weekly newsletter of Startup Digest Barcelona since 2016 at MarsBased. Startup Digest contains a curated list of the best events in every city and we send it every Monday.
We hosted Jessica Ford, their Director, to speak about the early years of Startup Digest, how they bootstrapped the project, how they built a bespoke platform and how they eventually migrated to Revue most recently. Also, and most importantly, we also cover the Techstars acquisition of the project.
We talk a lot about newsletters, which is something we had never covered in our almost 100 episodes of both feeds of Life on Mars, and they're still VERY relevant in 2022. In fact, they keep evolving with the edition of dynamic elements, the new approach of certain innovative email clients like Superhuman, Spark and others.
We also talk about the role of newsletters and established brands in startup ecosystems to build community like Startup Digest, Startup Grind, FuckUp Nights, TEDx and other brands available for entrepreneurs out there and how sometimes these brands will work better than your own ideas. Because, let's face it, your ideas are not that great, Jim. Let's face it. It's time to talk about that.
We also noticed that every paragraph in this description starts with "we". What a great way to talk about community, focusing always on the "we".
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
Next Episode
048 - Company culture and hiring tech talent in hyper-growth mode with Jordi Romero (CEO @ Factorial)
We sneaked into 4YFN (4 Years From Now), the startups conference of Mobile World Congress, to host a Startup Grind event - an event within a bigger event.
Factorial acquired Codegram, a Rails consultancy we respect a lot, in December 2019, so this is one of the topics we cover in this interview, and how organic vs. inorganic growth are working out for them, how they make their company culture permeate the lower ranks of the company and how they create new leaders and managers internationally in the context of hyper growth.
It's a shorter episode because we were only given 30 minutes at the conference. We're too much to handle, we guess.
And no. Àlex and Jordi didn't coordinate to have the same boots on the same day. You'll have to check the video to see this.
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/
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