Podcast appearances and mentions of derek andersen

Minecraft is a surprise hit at the box office defying expectations! Chris Gore and Alan Ng are joined by The Angry Badger, Derek Andersen, Verbal Riot, Nerd Cookies, Script Doctor, Steph from My Nerdy Home and Robert Meyer Burnett. Hilarity ensues!

Disney's Snow White collapses in its second weekend at the box office. Chris Gore and Alan Ng are joined by The Angry Badger, Derek Andersen, Dante James from Verbal Riot Show, Paul Chato and Steph from My Nerdy Home. Hilarity ensues?

Snow White collapses at the box office. What does this mean for Disney? Chris Gore and Alan Ng are joined by The Angry Badger, Derek Andersen, Dante James from Verbal Riot Show and Steph from My Nerdy Home. Hilarity ensues?

Snow White is coming and it looks like a disaster for Disney. Chris Gore and Alan Ng are joined by The Angry Badger, Derek Andersen, Dante James from Verbal Riot Show, Steph from My Nerdy Home and Robert Meyer Burnett. Hilarity ensues!

How will the failure of Captain America: Brave New World impact the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Chris Gore and Alan Ng are joined by guests Dante James from Verbal Riot, Derek Andersen, Epic Mike, The Angry Badger and Robert Meyer Burnett. Hilarity ensues!

The co-founder of Bevy, Derek Andersen, joins Clint Betts and Garrett Clark for this episode of the Silicon Slopes podcast. Bevy is an AI-driven community platform and tool that enterprises use for customer discussions, events, and data optimization. They talk about life in Silicon Valley versus Silicon Slopes and how Utah is becoming a major hub for tech startups. To build a thriving tech and startup ecosystem, egos need to be checked at the door, and they chat about the ethos leaders need in order to be successful in such an environment. They touch on the topic of AI and its impact on business. Tune in to learn more -- you don't want to miss this episode! "I've seen dozens and dozens of Silicon Slopes-types of communities and organizations and almost all of them fail. It's really because the people running them don't have that ethos."If you enjoyed this video and want to support us please leave a LIKE, write a comment on this video and Share it with your friends. Subscribe to our channel on YouTube and click the icon for notifications when we add a new video. Let us know in the comments if you have any questions.  Our website: https://www.siliconslopes.comShow links: https://www.motionops.com  Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silicon-slopes-the-entrepreneur-capital-of-the-world/id1698150372SpotifyPodcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZdYnWYKPXOqH2fgJ2UJ2N?si=5890c63a145a4a3e  Social:Twitter - https://twitter.com/siliconslopesInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/siliconslopes/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/silicon-slopes/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aEtQ1KJrWhJ3C2JnzXysw  Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silicon-slopes-the-entrepreneur-capital-of-the-world/id1698150372Spotify Podcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZdYnWYKPXOqH2fgJ2UJ2N?si=5890c63a145a4a3e 

The challenges of launching a startup can seem endless when you are just starting out. Truth be told, the magnitude of these challenges will only grow as your business grows. But don't let this deter you.Derek Andersen understood that the obstacles he was facing in entrepreneurship were not unique to him. This notion led him on his quest to create a community for entrepreneurs to share their advice and inspirations with others, proving that entrepreneurs are in fact, stronger together.In this episode, Eddie and Derek talk about his path to working in the tech industry, habits that create a CEO, how creating solutions to your own problems is an avenue for success, advice for founders looking to raise capital in the current environment, being a customer of your own product, and much more…Topics Include: - The impetus for Startup Grind and Bevy- Freedom and creativity in entrepreneurship- Bootstrapping companies- Servant leadership- Dealing with failure- The responsibility to help others- Managing relationships with investors- Taking advantage of slingshot moments- And other topics...Derek Andersen is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. Derek also co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 10,000 events for more than 500,000 people. In 2010, Derek co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.Books Mentioned:The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen: https://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102419How Will You Measure Your Life, by Clayton Christensen: https://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102419

Today I'm interviewing the Founder and CEO of Volley, Josh Little.  Josh's experience in sales and marketing at three Fortune 500 companies provided him with a strong foundation in leadership, storytelling, collaboration above all, communication. His newest company, Volley, was built upon that foundation. Volley helps teams communicate better and escape the problem of "Death by Meetings" by implementing asynchronous verbal conversations, which fill in the gap between text-based tools like Slack and video-chat apps like Zoom. Josh's work has been highlighted in TechCrunch, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes.  Let me know what you think.... Want to learn about remote work from 60+ real-world remote work experts including?: Nick Francis, CEO Help Scout, Laurel Farrer, Co-Founder Distribute Consulting, Andy Tryba, CEO Crossover, Pilar Orti, Founder Virtual Not Distant, Darcy Boles, Dir Of Culture & Innovation TaxJar, Steli Efti, CEO - Close, Elaine Pofeldt, Freelance Writer, Sarah Park, President Meet Edgar, Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder Chili Piper, Derek Andersen, CEO Startup Grind, Michelle Dale, CEO Virtual Miss Friday Stitcher   Google Podcast  iTunes  Spotify Please subscribe to the remote work life podcast and you'll learn how to: > get clarity on your career direction > master online and in-person job interviews > find unadvertised or hidden jobs > use LinkedIn to network with hiring managers > thrive in a remote work culture > stay connected and develop and support your remote teammates Let's connect: On Facebook   On LinkedIn   On Instagram  On YouTube

Today I'm interviewing one of my favourite guests of all time on the podcast, Elaine Podeldt. She is a freelance writer, editor and ghostwriter who has worked with publications including The Economist, Fortune, Money, Inc., CNBC, Crain's New York Business, Forbes and others.  If you're fed up with the corporate grind and want a guide to getting big results from a small business then stay tuned ... ... because Elaine is also author of the brand new book "Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies For Creating A High-Revenue Microbusiness" !  (AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY 15TH 2022) I recommend getting a copy if you're looking to create a business to change your life. And while you're at it pick up a copy of Elaine's other business book titled "The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business". Let me know what you think.... Want to learn about remote work from 60+ real-world remote work experts including?: Nick Francis, CEO Help Scout, Laurel Farrer, Co-Founder Distribute Consulting, Andy Tryba, CEO Crossover, Pilar Orti, Founder Virtual Not Distant, Darcy Boles, Dir Of Culture & Innovation TaxJar, Steli Efti, CEO - Close, Elaine Pofeldt, Freelance Writer, Sarah Park, President Meet Edgar, Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder Chili Piper, Derek Andersen, CEO Startup Grind, Michelle Dale, CEO Virtual Miss Friday Stitcher   Google Podcast  iTunes  Spotify Please subscribe to the remote work life podcast and you'll learn how to: > get clarity on your career direction > master online and in-person job interviews > find unadvertised or hidden jobs > use LinkedIn to network with hiring managers > thrive in a remote work culture > stay connected and develop and support your remote teammates Let's connect: On Facebook   On LinkedIn   On Instagram  On YouTube

Today's guest is the CEO of Remote, Job van der Voort and during this episode, we talk about asynchronous work and answer key questions including: Why business leaders should care about adopting async work practices How they can approach and address an over-dependence upon meetings Let me know what you think.... Want to learn about remote work from 60+ real-world remote work experts including?: Nick Francis, CEO Help Scout, Laurel Farrer, Co-Founder Distribute Consulting, Andy Tryba, CEO Crossover, Pilar Orti, Founder Virtual Not Distant, Darcy Boles, Dir Of Culture & Innovation TaxJar, Steli Efti, CEO - Close, Elaine Pofeldt, Freelance Writer, Sarah Park, President Meet Edgar, Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder Chili Piper, Derek Andersen, CEO Startup Grind, Michelle Dale, CEO Virtual Miss Friday Stitcher   Google Podcast  iTunes  Spotify Please subscribe to the remote work life podcast and you'll learn how to: > get clarity on your career direction > master online and in-person job interviews > find unadvertised or hidden jobs > use LinkedIn to network with hiring managers > thrive in a remote work culture > stay connected and develop and support your remote teammates Let's connect: On Facebook   On LinkedIn   On Instagram  On YouTube

Frederick Joseph is the unluckiest man in New York City: After dealing with a Satanic AirBnB host, a racist woman on the street, and racist editors and producers, he is the victim of the latest Central-Park-Karen-style incident. The hosts discuss his super real and honest stories. Then: Jesse interviews Kathryn Paige Harden, the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, about her research and the perils of debating fraught scientific and societal subjects online. Show notes/Links: Job listing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/were-hiring-56634428 (https://www.patreon.com/posts/were-hiring-56634428) Original Frederick Joseph video: https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1441919836112650242 (https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1441919836112650242) Insider's coverage: https://www.insider.com/woman-accused-telling-black-dog-walker-stay-in-hood-fired-2021-9 (https://www.insider.com/woman-accused-telling-black-dog-walker-stay-in-hood-fired-2021-9) Derek Andersen has said problematic stuff himself: https://twitter.com/UnringThisBell/status/1442331588713320452 (https://twitter.com/UnringThisBell/status/1442331588713320452) People won't leave Joseph alone: https://twitter.com/fredtjoseph/status/1433776453620060170 (https://twitter.com/fredtjoseph/status/1433776453620060170) Man Claims United Airlines Offered Woman $1,000 Voucher to Put Her Feet Down: 'The Audacity of White Privilege': https://www.newsweek.com/white-privilege-united-airlines-feet-table-845387 (https://www.newsweek.com/white-privilege-united-airlines-feet-table-845387) Anna Merlan general background (not petty): https://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387 (https://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387) Merlan on Joseph on AirBnB satanists: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jnmb/we-talked-to-the-host-accused-of-doing-satanic-rituals-in-his-airbnb (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jnmb/we-talked-to-the-host-accused-of-doing-satanic-rituals-in-his-airbnb) Joseph's claim about black-author quotas: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1442501778675806213 (https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1442501778675806213) Paige Harden's faculty page at the University of Texas - Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/prc/directory/faculty/kh24738 (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/prc/directory/faculty/kh24738) Paige Harden's book, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality: https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Lottery-Matters-Social-Equality/dp/0691190801 (https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Lottery-Matters-Social-Equality/dp/0691190801) Giden Lewis-Kraus's profile of her in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters) Freddie deBoer on his related book The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22 (https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22) Lothian Birth Cohorts: https://www.ed.ac.uk/lothian-birth-cohorts (https://www.ed.ac.uk/lothian-birth-cohorts)

Today's guest is Corine Tan.  Corine is Co-Founder of Kona, the wellness platform for remote teams. Since January 2020, Corine has interviewed 550+ remote managers about their experiences and compiled their interviews in an extensive report (https://bit.ly/3hFcI5f). She writes and speaks regularly on emotional intelligence and empathetic remote leadership. Her work has been featured by Yahoo, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch, Harvard Business School, Forbes, BuiltIn, and more. Want to learn about remote work from 60+ real-world remote work experts including?: Nick Francis, CEO Help Scout, Laurel Farrer, Co-Founder Distribute Consulting, Andy Tryba, CEO Crossover, Pilar Orti, Founder Virtual Not Distant, Darcy Boles, Dir Of Culture & Innovation TaxJar, Steli Efti, CEO - Close, Elaine Pofeldt, Freelance Writer, Sarah Park, President Meet Edgar, Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder Chili Piper, Derek Andersen, CEO Startup Grind, Michelle Dale, CEO Virtual Miss Friday Stitcher   Google Podcast  iTunes  Spotify Please subscribe to the remote work life podcast and you'll learn how to: > get clarity on your career direction > master online and in-person job interviews > find unadvertised or hidden jobs > use LinkedIn to network with hiring managers > thrive in a remote work culture > stay connected and develop and support your remote teammates Let's connect: On Facebook   On LinkedIn   On Instagram  On YouTube

Sharon Koifman is obsessed with remote management. Over the past twenty years, he's built and run three fully remote companies. Sharon grew up in an entrepreneurial family and was heavily inspired by his father who first introduced Sharon to the idea of working remotely.  These days Sharon runs DistantJob, a unique recruitment agency geared specifically for finding full-time remote employees who work from all over the world. The key difference in his approach is that he wants to show how remote work benefits businesses. His book, Surviving Remote Work, reached number one bestseller status on Amazon. https://www.linkedin.com/company/distantjob-agency/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/distantj/ https://distantjob.com/  Want to learn about remote work from 60+ real-world remote work experts including?: Nick Francis, CEO Help Scout, Laurel Farrer, Co-Founder Distribute Consulting, Andy Tryba, CEO Crossover, Pilar Orti, Founder Virtual Not Distant, Darcy Boles, Dir Of Culture & Innovation TaxJar, Steli Efti, CEO - Close, Elaine Pofeldt, Freelance Writer, Sarah Park, President Meet Edgar, Alina Vandenberghe, Co-Founder Chili Piper, Derek Andersen, CEO Startup Grind, Michelle Dale, CEO Virtual Miss Friday Stitcher   Google Podcast  iTunes  Spotify Please subscribe to the remote work life podcast and you'll learn how to: > get clarity on your career direction > master online and in-person job interviews > find unadvertised or hidden jobs > use LinkedIn to network with hiring managers > thrive in a remote work culture > stay connected and develop and support your remote teammates Let's connect: On Facebook   On LinkedIn   On Instagram  On YouTube

Luke Szyrmer Founder of Align Remotely has managed or participated in remote only knowledge work teams for almost a decade. Most recently, he lead a program of approximately 30 distributed across 13 time zones and 8 different locations. Over the last 9 years, he has lead teams building software, running marketing and sales, and launched a bestselling book called Align Remotely. In many cases, with people he never met or spoke to in person. Now that everyone has been thrust into a similar situation, he is keen on helping other leaders come to grip with this pandemic, by sharing what has worked well for him in the past. About the podcast and community  Welcome to the Remote Work Life Podcast, where real-world remote work CEOs and leaders talk about how they hire, network, collaborate and thrive. Join me and more than 5000 followers in customer success, marketing, product and engineering to learn skills you need to work online from anywhere. I am your Host, Alex Wilson-Campbell - I'm an Employment Coach and Tech Recruiter on a mission to help you gain clarity and direction in your career AND uncover hidden jobs through one-to-one and group coaching.  

There is no hotter technology out right now than virtual events platforms, with the pandemic accelerating their growth exponentially. Bevy is no exception as its virtual events platform is experiencing hyper growth right in line with the industry. But where Bevy is completely exceptional is how it has put diversity and inclusion at the core of the company's culture - as the company is closing in on 20% of its employee base being black, and with 60% of the participants in its recent $40M funding round also being black. During a recent LinkedIn Live conversation I spoke with Bevy CEO and co-founder Derek Andersen about competing in the virtual events platform space and the role the Startup Grind – the local event driven startup community he founded in 2010 - played in shaping Bevy’s approach to building its virtual events platform. We also spend time discussing why he felt embarrassed a year ago when none of his 27 employees were black, and how that realization led him and his cofounder to build diversity and inclusion into all aspects of the business going forward, including seeking out black advisors and investors to participate in the company’s latest funding round. And to add additional perspective one of those angel investors participating the funding round, Salesforce VP of Trailhead Evangelism and Trailblazer Community Leah McGowan-Hare, joins us to share why she felt investing in Bevy was a “no-brainer”.

Welcome back to another episode with Josh Steimle. Previously, we discussed Josh's career and content writing. In today's episode, we're going to discuss the 7 Systems of Influence and how they can help us gain influence with our ideal customers. The 7 Systems of Influence The seven systems of influence include vision, genius zone, audience, content, action, collaboration, and love. They act as a framework, a way of thinking and organizing information, to create influence and then leverage that influence to achieve goals. Arguably the most effective way to get what we want is through influence. We say knowledge is power, but knowledge can't really get us anywhere without influence. So the seven systems of influence are the fundamental steps, or systems, we can use to create, leverage, and maintain influence.   Vision   The first system is vision. For anything we want, we have to clearly visualize it. For example, if what we want is our child to take out the trash, we have to visualize it. Whether it is something small like that or something big like creating a billion-dollar business over the next 10 years, we have to visualize it. Then we have a clear vision of where we need to be going, and it will be much easier to stay focused on it. We may run around chasing a goal that we haven't fully visualized. We end up chasing visions we don't really want because they have not been fully formulated. By sitting down and going through the right process, we can clarify our vision and make sure it's what we really want. Then we focus our time and resources to ensure that vision happens.   Genius Zone   System number two is the genius zone. This system asks questions such as “Who are you? What are you good at? What is your knowledge? What is your experience? What is it that makes you special? What can you do that no one else can do?” Josh grew up skateboarding. He ran a skate shop as a kid, and today, he's still connected to the industry. So, he knows a bit about skateboarding. However, he isn't the only one with that knowledge; there are probably 20 million other people in the world who know as much as he does about skateboarding. Josh also knows a bit about marketing, having run a marketing agency for 20 years. But again, he's not the only marketing expert in the world. When Josh overlaps these two expert zones, they create a genius zone. There aren't many people who have his knowledge about skateboarding and marketing combined. This makes him unique in this area. So, he could go to a company like Nike with this experience and help them market shoes to skateboarders. This is a simple example of overlapping two areas, but we might overlap in five different areas. It might include the language we speak, somewhere we live or some other experience in our background. When we start listing out our expert zones and looking for unique connections and overlaps, we'll find genius zones that nobody else in the world has. Typically, we have one genius zone that stands out to us, one we are passionate about and want to spend the rest of our life doing.   Audience   The third system is the audience. Who can we serve with our genius zone? The question is not “Who is anyone in the world who might care a little bit about our genius zone?” The question is “Who are the people who desperately need what we offer through our genius?” Josh likes to ask his clients how many customers they would need to totally change their business. For those who are doing consulting, the answer is typically 10 or 20. Josh then asks how many potential customers they have in the world. His clients respond by saying, “millions.” Then Josh says, “If you only need 10 or 20 to change your business, why are you creating your content and messaging for millions? Why would you create content marketing and messaging that appeals to millions rather than to the 10 people you would ideally love to work with?” We can pick and choose. For example, with Josh's published author program, he decided he wanted to work with entrepreneurs. He could work with a lot of people and help them to write books, but he loves working with entrepreneurs. So, he decided to narrow it down and only work with entrepreneurs,  creating content marketing and messaging directly for them. Because of this, they often feel like Josh is speaking right to them, and they want to work with him because of that. 61% of consumers say that they are more likely to buy from a company that provides custom content (Source: dragon360.com).   Content   Content is system number four. Now that we know our ideal audience, we can ask what will motivate them to take action. We often think of content as a book or website, but it's also our words or example. It can be the chore chart on the fridge to track tasks for our kids. If we're trying to build a billion-dollar business over the next 10 years, then it's important to ask: what's the content we need to create to recruit partners, to recruit clients, and to get people to fund this?   Action   System number five is action. What is the plan to get this done? If the content is a book, the action questions may be how are we going to finish this book? How are we going to write it? How are we going to get started? Are we going to write the book ourselves or hire a ghostwriter to do it? “Everybody needs a plan to actually get to a destination.” - Josh Steimle   Collaboration   The sixth system is collaboration. The central question of this system is how can I work with other people to get 1,000 times the influence that I have on my own? Josh has a friend, Derek Andersen, who started a company called Startup Grind. The company started because Derek began interviewing successful entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. He hosted a fireside chat and only about 10 people attended, but they wanted him to do more. About 20 people attended the second one, and more went to the third one. Someone came to Derek and asked if they could host one of the events in San Jose. Derek said yes, and they partnered together to start Startup Grind. Today, Startup Grind has 800 or 900 chapters around the world, and they've hosted millions of people at their local events. Derek has been able to influence millions of people, which he never would have been able to do by himself. Collaboration allows us to spread our influence a lot further than we could otherwise on our own. We can think about: who can we work with? Who has the same audience? Or who has the same audience but is selling something else? How can we find somebody who wants to connect with the same audience we want to connect with? How can we collaborate in a way that we both end up with more influence?   Love   The final system of influence is love. This was a difficult system for Josh to come up with. He had the first six, but he knew something important was missing. He realized it was love through a discussion he had with his business partner about parenting. Josh's business partner said, “If you know your parents love you, it really makes up for a lot of the mistakes they make because you know their hearts are in the right place.” The truth of this statement stuck with Josh and made him realize that love was the last element he needed in his systems. We often let people do crazy things if they have good intentions, but love is all about goodwill and good intent. “If people feel like you are trying to help them because you really want to help them, then you can get almost everything else wrong in the systems of influence, and you will still have influence. But if you get everything else right—the vision, the genius zone, the audience, the content, everything—you can do everything else right. But if there's no love, people will just ignore it, and then you have no influence.” - Josh Steimle Why are they called systems?  Josh calls them systems because they don't have to be done in order like steps. As with a car and its propulsion system, steering system, navigation system, etc., all the systems work and run at the same time. Then we can move from point A to point B. However, if one of those systems is not working well, it can throw everything into reverse. The Importance of Data in Marketing One of Josh's favorite interviews from his book, Chief Marketing Officers at Work, was with Seth Farbman, the former CMO of Spotify. Seth told Josh a story about the importance of data in marketing. Seth and his team were looking at Spotify user data, and there was a group of people listening to Spotify consistently for about seven or eight hours without any interaction. They weren't changing or skipping anything. Seth was unsure what these users were doing for so long without interaction, but he eventually realized they were sleeping with music on.  This realization allowed Spotify to set up many playlists for people to use while they were sleeping, and to further entrench themselves with that user group. Spotting trends from data can lead to product development and new ideas. Looking at the data allowed Spotify to do marketing that further connected them to their users. Key Takeaways Thank you so much Josh for sharing your stories and knowledge with us today. Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode: It is important to visualize our goals so we have a clear direction and increase our chance to accomplish them. We can combine our expert zones to create a genius zone, which becomes a skillset unique to us. We must think about who our ideal audience is to create content marketing and messaging that will appeal specifically to them. If we're trying to build a billion-dollar business over the next 10 years, then we have to think about what content we are going to create that will help us do so. In order to achieve our goals, we need a plan of action. We can collaborate with others to gain even more influence. Without love, the other systems of influence won't help us. We have to care about our audience and our business. Use the systems together to achieve our goals. Spotting trends from data can lead to product development and new ideas. Connect with Josh If you enjoyed this interview and want to connect with Josh you can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuasteimle/ or visit his website at https://www.joshsteimle.com/. Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer? Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content: Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Subscribe to the free Monetization eMagazine. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram and Twitter. Share Your Story  What do you think of these 7 Systems of Influence? Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Read at: https://monetizationnation.com/blog/62-the-7-systems-of-influence-and-how-they-can-help-us-create-leverage-and-maintain-influence/ 

About the podcast and community  Welcome to the Remote Work Life Podcast, where real-world remote work CEOs and leaders talk about how they hire, network, collaborate and thrive. Join me and more than 5000 followers in customer success, marketing, product and engineering to learn skills you need to work online from anywhere. I am your Host, Alex Wilson-Campbell - I’m Interview Coach and Tech Recruiter on a mission to help you gain clarity and direction in your career AND uncover hidden jobs through one-to-one and group coaching.   And On Today’s Episode …  We’re spoiled with the presence of yet another Remote CEO rockstar in Derek Andersen who is at the helm of a successful business that’s driven by values and a mission that focuses on community and building friendships. Communities, friendships and networks are so important for you to grow your location-independent career and Derek shares his insights on how to find and grow your tribes so that you can optimise your search for remote opportunities.

This week, we have the pleasure of hearing from Derek Andersen, CEO & Founder of Startup Grind and Bevy. Startup Grind began in 2010 when Derek started hosting monthly gatherings with friends and acquaintances to discuss and brainstorm ideas for new projects he was launching. The community took off and participants began running events in their own cities, eventually becoming the largest community of startups and entrepreneurs with millions of members across the world hosting 200-300 events per month. Derek talks about the importance of articulating and living by community values, which Startup Grind did by being authentic, a friend to all, and focusing on helping others before themselves. We dive into determining whether to build or buy a platform and discuss the launch of Bevy - the virtual events and community platform used by Startup Grind, CMX, and hundreds of other global business communities. Derek also shares insights into acquisition and how acquiring CMX was mutually beneficial for both Bevy and CMX. He talks about the shift to virtual events and the importance of being real with data and what's really happening with the world, then taking that knowledge and acting quickly. Virtual events and Bevy helped make the community industry stronger during this time, and one day the world will be back to in-person, but in a new way that provides a space for people who can't attend in person to participate virtually. Notable Quotes: “And he said, do you know what's special about StartupGrind? I was like, I know, I really don't like, what is it? He said, look, it's the values. StartupGrind is about helping people before you help yourself. It's about making friends. It's not about LinkedIn connections. It's about giving before you take, like that's evident speaking and attending your events. And I was like, well, yeah, of course it is. And he's like, no, like that's different, that's unique.” “So how did you make that decision and what do you think the future of community and events looks like in this post COVID world that we're all hoping will come soon? I think you have to be real with the data and what's really happening and not just what you hope is happening, or, you know, what somebody tells you you want to hear. I think for me, like when I saw and heard the conversations happening with customers in March and early April, I realized very quickly that not only was the world changing, but our business was sort of in a collapse and we needed to do something dramatic. And so, you know, we orchestrated and ran a, what I think is an incredible play, and it made, I think virtual events are absolutely community building activities done well. And so we added that aspect to our product to make our events, product, more community building, community driven. And so it wasn't what we had planned to build this year. It wasn't what we were hoping to build, but I think this year has made our foundation of our community product so, so much stronger.” Rapid Fire Question: - Favorite Book: How You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christianson - Who's an awesome community builder/creator to follow: Holly Firestone - Tool/App you can't live without: Slack - One metric to use for rest of career to measure community: lives improved - Weirdest Community You've Been a Part of: weird unofficial fraternity in college If you're on death bed, what's your life lesson: Live Every Day Like It's Your Last Who is this episode for?: B2C/B2B, In person & online, Starting & Scaling

This week, we have the pleasure of hearing from Derek Andersen, CEO & Founder of Startup Grind and Bevy. Startup Grind began in 2010 when Derek started hosting monthly gatherings with friends and acquaintances to discuss and brainstorm ideas for new projects he was launching. The community took off and participants began running events in their own cities, eventually becoming the largest community of startups and entrepreneurs with millions of members across the world hosting 200-300 events per month. Derek talks about the importance of articulating and living by community values, which Startup Grind did by being authentic, a friend to all, and focusing on helping others before themselves. We dive into determining whether to build or buy a platform and discuss the launch of Bevy - the virtual events and community platform used by Startup Grind, CMX, and hundreds of other global business communities. Derek also shares insights into acquisition and how acquiring CMX was mutually beneficial for both Bevy and CMX. He talks about the shift to virtual events and the importance of being real with data and what’s really happening with the world, then taking that knowledge and acting quickly. Virtual events and Bevy helped make the community industry stronger during this time, and one day the world will be back to in-person, but in a new way that provides a space for people who can’t attend in person to participate virtually. 2-3 Quotes: “And he said, do you know what's special about StartupGrind? I was like, I know, I really don't like, what is it? He said, look, it's the values. StartupGrind is about helping people before you help yourself. It's about making friends. It's not about LinkedIn connections. It's about giving before you take, like that's evident speaking and attending your events. And I was like, well, yeah, of course it is. And he's like, no, like that's different, that's unique.” “So how did you make that decision and what do you think the future of community and events looks like in this post COVID world that we're all hoping will come soon? I think you have to be real with the data and what's really happening and not just what you hope is happening, or, you know, what somebody tells you you want to hear. I think for me, like when I saw and heard the conversations happening with customers in March and early April, I realized very quickly that not only was the world changing, but our business was sort of in a collapse and we needed to do something dramatic. And so, you know, we orchestrated and ran a, what I think is an incredible play, and it made, I think virtual events are absolutely community building activities done well. And so we added that aspect to our product to make our events, product, more community building, community driven. And so it wasn't what we had planned to build this year. It wasn't what we were hoping to build, but I think this year has made our foundation of our community product so, so much stronger.” Rapid Fire Question: - Favorite Book: How You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christianson - Who’s an awesome community builder/creator to follow: Holly Firestone - Tool/App you can't live without: Slack - One metric to use for rest of career to measure community: lives improved - Weirdest Community You’ve Been a Part of: weird unofficial fraternity in college If you’re on death bed, what’s your life lesson: Live Every Day Like It’s Your Last Who is this episode for?: B2C/B2B, In person & online, Starting & Scaling

We are joined by a repeat guest and friend of The C2C Podcast... Celina Zamora! She is the Senior Program Manager of Developer Community at MongoDB. Now that she is running Community User Groups at MongoDB and starting that role during COVID we had her break down what it is like to build a new C2C community after having so much success with her last community at Atlassian. We covered other topics as well like how surveys have increased during COVID, making hackathons virtual (and still great), how to approach diversity and inclusivity, and a beautiful story about a community member helping veterans.

We are joined by a repeat guest and friend of The C2C Podcast... Celina Zamora! She is the Senior Program Manager of Developer Community at MongoDB. Now that she is running Community User Groups at MongoDB and starting that role during COVID we had her break down what it is like to build a new C2C community after having so much success with her last community at Atlassian. We covered other topics as well like how surveys have increased during COVID, making hackathons virtual (and still great), how to approach diversity and inclusivity, and a beautiful story about a community member helping veterans.

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with the goal of making sophisticated research simple. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Qualtrics has more than 8,500 enterprise customers including over 75% of the Fortune 100, 1,800 colleges and universities worldwide, and 99 of the top 100 U.S. business schools. Qualtrics has received $400M in investment from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners. Ryan was named to Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business, and was listed as one of Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35” in 2013. He is a frequent contributor to Fortune Magazine and has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Inc., The New York Times, TechCrunch and USA Today, and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and FOX Business. Ryan is a graduate of Brigham Young University and is a frequent guest lecturer at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.  Learn more about Oracle for Startups(Interviewed by Startup Grind's founder + CEO, Derek Andersen). 

Scott Belsky is an executive, entrepreneur, author, and investor (and all-around product obsessive). He currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud. Scott's passion is to make the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott helped reboot Adobe's mobile product strategy and led Behance until 2016, when he spent a few years as an investor and advisor to multiple businesses.Alongside his role at Adobe, Scott actively advises and invests in businesses that cross the intersection of technology and design - and help empower people. He works closely with a number of venture capital firms including Benchmark and Homebrew, and is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Carta, Cheddar, Flexport, Airtable, and Periscope (now part of Twitter) as well as several others in the early stages.Over the years, Scott has pursued other projects to help organize and empower the careers of creative people. These include 99U, Behance's think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world; and a popular line of organizational paper products that help organize creative people and teams.Scott is also the author of the international bestselling books  Making Ideas Happen (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Apr, 2010), and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Oct, 2018).Scott is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance in 2006, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.  Learn more about Oracle for Startups(Interviewed by Startup Grind's founder Derek Andersen).

Jono Bacon is one of the most notable figures in the community space. He's helped some of the tech world's best brands like IBM, Intel, SAP, Mozilla, and others build their community. He also wrote the book The Art of Community and recently published People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams by HarperCollins. We cover community models, why C2C marketing is important in 2020, governing open source communities and more!

Jono Bacon is one of the most notable figures in the community space. He's helped some of the tech world's best brands like IBM, Intel, SAP, Mozilla, and others build their community. He also wrote the book The Art of Community and recently published People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams by HarperCollins. We cover community models, why C2C marketing is important in 2020, governing open source communities and more!Too Long; Didn't Listen5:33m - Jono discusses the three different community models and how they further subdivide into two categories8:26m - Provides insight on how he approaches and maps out achieving objectives10:14m - Explains how the relationship between brands and consumers has changed; from online interactions to in person activations17:52m - Speaks about two communities that have caught his attentionYou can find the podcast on Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Today we rebroadcast our conversation with Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, which is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. In part 2 of our conversation, we discuss building local event marketing tech stack. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we rebroadcast our conversation with Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, which is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. In part 2 of our conversation, we discuss building local event marketing tech stack. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter

Today we rebroadcast our conversation with Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, which is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. In part 1 of our conversation, we discuss building local communities from the ground up. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we rebroadcast our conversation with Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, which is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. In part 1 of our conversation, we discuss building local communities from the ground up. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter

Next on the show is Claire Smith who is the Senior Community Manager at the world's largest online learning platform for higher education, Coursera. She previously led community experience at e-Commerce platform, Storenvy, but she started building her first community - a World of Warcraft Guild - back in 2006. We discuss why Coursera has been focusing on retention over acquisition in light of COVID-19, how she pivoted when an initial program launch didn't work out as planned, and how community works in tandem with customer success when it comes to an education product. Take a listen!

Next on the show is Claire Smith who is the Senior Community Manager at the world's largest online learning platform for higher education, Coursera. She previously led community experience at e-Commerce platform, Storenvy, but she started building her first community - a World of Warcraft Guild - back in 2006. We discuss why Coursera has been focusing on retention over acquisition in light of COVID-19, how she pivoted when an initial program launch didn't work out as planned, and how community works in tandem with customer success when it comes to an education product. Take a listen!Who is this episode great for?Virtual community managers, early-stage community leaders, educational communitiesWhat's the biggest takeaway?Claire Smith returned to her role at Coursera from maternity leave to find a very different world. In light of the pandemic, while demand for educational content has risen, Claire and her team are continuing to double down on the retention of their users to ensure that their community is growing. Coursera utilizes the strategy of allowing marketing to focus on acquiring new users so the community team can put all energies toward making sure all users and superusers are happy with the product, engaged with each other, and meeting their educational goals.

Dino Kuckovic, Director of Community & Events at Falcon.io, stopped by this week to discuss his events strategy working at the social media SaaS platform. He shared with us how he organically built a community from scratch, how he makes community a company-wide focus with marketing and sales, and how he keeps his event attendees coming back for more.

Dino Kuckovic, Director of Community & Events at Falcon.io, stopped by this week to discuss his events strategy working at the social media SaaS platform. He shared with us how he organically built a community from scratch, how he makes community a company-wide focus with marketing and sales, and how he keeps his event attendees coming back for more.Who is this episode great for?In-person event managers, community leaders, sales and marketing teamsWhat's the biggest takeaway?Dino has had great success creating a framework for generating leads from C2C events. He makes it a priority to work hand in hand with the sales and marketing teams at Falcon.io to get a better understanding of what they are looking for so he can build these strategies directly into his events. Dino is very particular about tying his events back to business generating factors. He stresses the importance of building relationships and really listening to customer feedback so event attendees feel that their needs are being met which in turn leads to sales.

 “The goal as an entrepreneur shouldn't be to just continue to work on random ideas in perpetuity. The goal is to find something and to spend all waking energy on that thing.” -Derek Andersen This week, I had a profound conversation with Derek Andersen, Founder and CEO of Startup Grind and Bevy. Entrepreneurs are visionaries but it takes more than bright ideas for a business to thrive and be firmly grounded. We must make sure we are creating a space where our creativity meets our target audience. I had a lot of insights as Derek and I unbox a lot of good stuff around bootstrapping and profitable hiring. Derek points out where entrepreneurs should direct their resources to ensure they’re not killing their own vision. On top of that, he also gives us some direct and rational tips on getting over failures, creating the future we want, hiring efficiently, and so much more! Evidently, those who we choose to work with have the ability to dictate our results. If your vision includes going from local to global, this link will get you there! https://jayrooke.com/105-Derek-Anderson/ Check out my website: https://jayrooke.com/    Follow me on: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter   Episode Highlights: 02:56 Start-Up Grind- From Local to Global 08:55 The Goal Entrepreneurs Should Aim For 16:15 Who’s The  Real Visionary 20:22 The Pain of Failure and Its Cure 25:55  How To Have The Future You Want 29:36 Customer Validation: A Sure Way To Seal the Deal 36:00 Save More, Gain More With Exceptional People 40:44 Be Careful Who You Hire! 

Emma Irwin joins us on the podcast from Mozilla Corporation. She is an Open Source and Community Strategist there and heads up diversity and inclusion strategy development for their open source projects and their communities. Prior to her role at Mozilla, she worked at Benetech as a Developer Community Manager. On today's episode, we discuss Emma's strategies for maintaining diversity and inclusion in the open source community and specifically why it's so important in the tech industry.

Emma Irwin joins us on the podcast from Mozilla Corporation. She is an Open Source and Community Strategist there and heads up diversity and inclusion strategy development for their open source projects and their communities. Prior to her role at Mozilla, she worked at Benetech as a Developer Community Manager. On today's episode, we discuss Emma's strategies for maintaining diversity and inclusion in the open source community and specifically why it's so important in the tech industry.Who is this episode great for?Virtual communities, Tech community leaders, Community strategistsWhat's the biggest takeaway?Emma shares her experience with building community in the tech industry, specifically within the area of open source. Her strategy is to start with reaching out and listening to members of your community to understand their experiences while making sure you are asking questions in a way that feels inclusive. Secondly, your community needs to be a safe place where your members feel comfortable providing anonymous feedback. Lastly, devise a way to make changes and progress using the feedback you receive from your community. 

How exactly did Startup Grind grow to become the world's largest community for entrepreneurs? In this episode, Derek Andersen (Co-Founder & CEO of Startup Grind) and Marsha Druker (Founder of Fuckup Nights Toronto) chat about growing a global community, letting go of control and empowering chapter leaders, why right now is such an exciting and pivotal time for the community industry, and so much more. Startup Grind is a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect startup people. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 10,000 events for more than 500,000 people. Derek is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Asana, Slack and Duolingo build virtual and in-person communities. Derek has been building communities for the past 15 years. Episode notes: https://www.createcommunitypod.com/episodes/derek-andersen  

Next on the show is Kevin Lau who is the Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Adobe. Kevin has made a career in community and customer advocacy. Before he went to Marketo, which was acquired by Adobe, he worked at AOL, Google and NetBase. We are going to go in depth on how to create raving fans out of customers, his strategies for running events, the growth of their Marketo User Groups and much more.

Next on the show is Kevin Lau who is the Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Adobe. Kevin has made a career in community and customer advocacy. Before he went to Marketo, which was acquired by Adobe, he worked at AOL, Google and NetBase. We are going to go in depth on how to create raving fans out of customers, his strategies for running events, the growth of their Marketo User Groups and much more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Derek Andersen, founder of Startup Grind (www.startupgrind.com) and now Bevy (www.bevy.com), a platform to host virtual online events and build a community. In this episode, Derek talks about the ROI of building a community and the benefits of word-of-mouth marketing, how he grew Startup Grind to over 500 chapters worldwide without raising capital, why he decided to go the VC route for Bevy, what he looked for in a VC partner, how to create scarcity and demand for your deal, and much more. The Company has raised more than $21 million over three rounds. The most recent was a $15 million Series B deal led by Accel. Upfront Ventures and Ryan Smith also participated. This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $2.2 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com

Brittany Caldwell joins us on the podcast to chat about her role as Head of Community & Events Marketing at Webflow. She has over 13 years of experience building communities and has previously worked for companies like GitHub and Atlassian. On today's episode, we cover her top strategies to kickstart a community with little to no budget, why she chooses to look at community like a product, and how she grew her user community over 114% in less than a year.

On this Episode of the Somewhat Frank Podcast, Frank Gruber and John Guidos talk about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. They also chat about the recent rise in RV sales and the benefits of the vagabond lifestyle during the pandemic. Frank also celebrates the following people in his network: Arlan Hamilton on the release of her book, It's About Damn Time.  Brad Feld on his latest book, The Startup Community Way. Meredith Fineman on the launch of her book, Brag Better. Matt Rissel on joining Summit Partners as an Executive In Residence. Derek Andersen on the growth and fresh $15M in funding to Bevy. Mary Grove on the launch of her new VC firm Bread and Butter Ventures. Cat Hernandez on the launch of a new pre-seed fund model with The Venture Collective.  Paul Carr on launching Needhop. Need help? Book someone on a call via the app (more on this below). Dawn Dickson on raising $2.3M for her startup via crowdfunding.    The guys also talk about the following books/article they’ve read recently: Too early to ditch the gym for gene therapy?  Experimental gene therapy prevents obesity, builds muscle, without exercise or dieting How To Read Water Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea by Tristan Gooley Underwater tourism Cutting edge tourist submarine will allow 24 passengers to explore the ocean depths Frank also talks about the new app Needhop. It offers on-demand audio calls for anyone looking for help. You can sign up to share your time and advice with others or look for others you might want to talk to for help. You can book people like Sarah Lacy, David Hornik, Paul Carr, and Frank Gruber and many, many, more!  Established and Startup of the Year are excited about these upcoming events:  Tune-in on July 23rd at 1 pm ET as we're hosting another Startup of the Year online pitch event, this time focused on spotlighting US Veteran Founders - RSVP here.   We're also assisting the Greater Colorado Venture Fund with their upcoming pitch event on July 30th where they will be investing in some early-stage companies from rural Colorado - RSVP here.  Lastly, Frank and John chat about the last episodes of the Bulls documentary The Last Dance and the Long Gone Summer, another ESPN documentary, that covers the summer of 1998 when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were slugging it out chasing the single-season home run record. Get updates like this in your inbox before they hit the web by subscribing to the newsletter here.

Brittany Caldwell joins us on the podcast to chat about her role as Head of Community & Events Marketing at Webflow. She has over 13 years of experience building communities and has previously worked for companies like GitHub and Atlassian. On today's episode, we cover her top strategies to kickstart a community with little to no budget, why she chooses to look at community like a product, and how she grew her user community over 114% in less than a year.Who is this episode great for?Virtual event managers, In-person communities, Product marketers What's the biggest takeaway?Brittany has been super successful growing the community at Webflow 114% over the past year. She attributes a lot of her success to the ability to view community like a product due to her extensive background in Product Marketing. Brittany starts any community with a go-to-market strategy and a deep audit of the product. She has also been successful using the strategy of piggybacking off of other company marketing initiatives (such as a traveling product roadshow) to make the best use of available budget in order to grow her community and get to know her members.

Derek Andersen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a global community for educating and connecting entrepreneurs. He chats with Marcio Arnecke, Zendesk’s VP of Regional Marketing AMER, on the value of investing in community, especially in a post-COVID world.

Tina Roth Eisenberg, the founder and CEO of CreativeMornings, joins us today. She currently oversees a worldwide chapter-based organization that brings creative professionals together monthly for community and learning. We talk about the challenges of adapting creative-based in-person events to a virtual platform, consistently maintaining connection and empathy with community members in a time of stress and how reaching new audiences is now possible.

Tina Roth Eisenberg, the founder and CEO of CreativeMornings, joins us today. She currently oversees a worldwide chapter-based organization that brings creative professionals together monthly for community and learning. We talk about the challenges of adapting creative-based in-person events to a virtual platform, consistently maintaining connection and empathy with community members in a time of stress and how reaching new audiences is now possible.Who is this episode great for?Non-profits, Virtual event leaders, In-person CommunitiesWhat's the biggest takeaway?Tina illustrates that it's not always as simple as transitioning an in-person event to a digital one exactly as is and expecting the same results, especially during a time of crisis and when your community members are likely experiencing extreme stress. Tina says community organizers need to take into consideration what their members are going through and find unique ways to keep engagement and empathy strong when producing digital events.

Our guest Erin Wayne is Director of Community and Creator Marketing at Twitch. She has worked at Twitch for over 6 years, she started off managing their partnership with Minecraft and is now Head of Community. We explore how a company with such an extremely active and passionate online community was able to bring that to real life with their C2C program!

Our guest Erin Wayne is Director of Community and Creator Marketing at Twitch. She has worked at Twitch for over 6 years, she started off managing their partnership with Minecraft and is now Head of Community. We explore how a company with such an extremely active and passionate online community was able to bring that to real life with their C2C program!Too Long; Didn't Listen2:53m- The interesting organic growth of Twitch meetups prior to any formal program7:39m - Erin discusses the inherent beauty of meetups and how they connect people that share similar interests12:33m - How to go about empowering their current communities and also collect behavioral data to further empower communities in the future14:39m - Erin brings up a fun fact about her that has helped tremendously with her career at TwitchYou can find the podcast on Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Jono Bacon is one of the most notable figures in the community space. He's helped some of the tech world's best brands like IBM, Intel, SAP, Mozilla, and others build their community. He also wrote the book The Art of Community and recently published People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams by HarperCollins. We cover community models, why C2C marketing is important in 2020, governing open source communities and more!

Jono Bacon is one of the most notable figures in the community space. He's helped some of the tech world's best brands like IBM, Intel, SAP, Mozilla, and others build their community. He also wrote the book The Art of Community and recently published People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams by HarperCollins. We cover community models, why C2C marketing is important in 2020, governing open source communities and more!Too Long; Didn't Listen5:33m - Jono discusses the three different community models and how they further subdivide into two categories8:26m - Provides insight on how he approaches and maps out achieving objectives10:14m - Explains how the relationship between brands and consumers has changed; from online interactions to in person activations17:52m - Speaks about two communities that have caught his attentionYou can find the podcast on Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  

We had a chat with Celina Zamora, who is the Senior Community Manager at Atlassian. Atlassian is known for its products like Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence. Today, Atlassian is serving over 135,000 customers across the globe.

Celina's job is all about building communities. She manages and supports Atlassian in-person communities within the Americas by working with community leaders, offering support and steer them. Her work involves engaging the online community by creating avenues for customers to easily connect with others like them.With Celina onboard with us, we are going to learn how Atlassian built an online community where developers, content managers, project managers and others came together where they collaborate, connect and share valuable insights with each other.It's not easy to explain the value of having a community and Celina understands this all too well since she saw how everyone was apprehensive towards the idea of having them.But today, Atlassian product teams see great value in these communities where they get to enjoy actual face time with users, learn about their problems, offers them real time feedback and hear customer stories.We will also be inquiring about the metrics they are using at Atlassian to gauge the effectiveness of these community events.Also, Celina shared with us how they are scaling their communities by building everything with heart and balance. They do this by focusing on where their customer is in terms of the platform they are using and how they are using it.

Next on the show is Kevin Lau who is the Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Adobe. Kevin has made a career in community and customer advocacy. Before he went to Marketo, which was acquired by Adobe, he worked at AOL, Google and NetBase. We are going to go in depth on how to create raving fans out of customers, his strategies for running events, the growth of their Marketo User Groups and much more.

Next on the show is Kevin Lau who is the Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Adobe. Kevin has made a career in community and customer advocacy. Before he went to Marketo, which was acquired by Adobe, he worked at AOL, Google and NetBase. We are going to go in depth on how to create raving fans out of customers, his strategies for running events, the growth of their Marketo User Groups and much more. 

Get ready to take some notes because our next guest is Rosemary O'Neill. Rosemary has been in the community space since 1998 when she co-founded Social Strata. Social Strata's flagship platform, Hoopla, lets you build a branded online community. In this interview, we walk through the process of starting a community and cover topics like getting internal champions, legal buy in, content calendars and more. Take a listen!

Get ready to take some notes because our next guest is Rosemary O'Neill. Rosemary has been in the community space since 1998 when she co-founded Social Strata. Social Strata's flagship platform, Hoopla, lets you build a branded online community. In this interview, we walk through the process of starting a community and cover topics like getting internal champions, legal buy in, content calendars and more. Take a listen!Too Long; Didn't Listen4:27m- When it comes to metrics, Rosemary starts with making sure NOT to solely focus on engagement. It's what bosses ask for but the community should tie back to deeper goals like the corporate mission and goals, monetization and getting new customers for example.6:44m- It is crucial to get your community goals wrapped into whatever your corporate process is for setting goals and talking about what you want for the next year. If you can get those incorporated into that process naturally it will help your community get prioritized instead of being off on it's own island.14:06m- Business needs can sometimes diminish creativity, which means us community managers need to always be thinking about what fresh content we can provide, like C2C or in-person events.

Derek Andersen (@DerekjAndersen) and David Spinks (@DavidSpinks) have a lot in common. Each of them felt alone in what they were striving for, brought together like-minded people, and ended up growing communities and building businesses around them. After a string of startup failures and hardships, Derek turned a small support group of entrepreneurs into the global community for founders that is Startup Grind. David turned a small group of community builders into CMX, the premier community for community builders world-wide. In this episode, we talk about why every founder should care about community, and how bringing together like-minded people can be a productive first-step for any new founder.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/092-derek-andersen-and-david-spinks-of-bevy

Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, joins us to discuss building local communities from the ground up with. Bevy is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. Derek is also a Co-Founder of Startup Grind, which brings the world's greatest founders and investors to tell their stories on stage. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Bevy // LinkedIn // Twitter The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, joins us to discuss building local communities from the ground up with. Bevy is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. Derek is also a Co-Founder of Startup Grind, which brings the world's greatest founders and investors to tell their stories on stage. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Bevy // LinkedIn // Twitter The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter

Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, joins us to discuss building local communities from the ground up with. Bevy is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. Derek is also a Co-Founder of Startup Grind, which brings the world's greatest founders and investors to tell their stories on stage. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Bevy // LinkedIn // Twitter The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Derek Andersen, Co-Founder and CEO at Bevy, joins us to discuss building local communities from the ground up with. Bevy is a customer to customer community management platform that helps brands build their community in real life. Derek is also a Co-Founder of Startup Grind, which brings the world's greatest founders and investors to tell their stories on stage. Show NotesConnect With: Derek Andersen: Bevy // LinkedIn // Twitter The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter

This episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue. - - Today's reader: Derek Andersen reading "Male Bonding." For more, follow this link to Shirley Magazine and stay tuned for this piece in the upcoming issue, which will be released April 29th. - - More on Derek Andersen: Derek Andersen is an Illinois Wesleyan alum, working as a copywriter in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Riggwelter, Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y, Shirley Magazine, and on WinningWriters.com. You can follow him on Twitter @DerekJAnd. - - More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/ - - More about The Poetry Vlog with C. R. Grimmer: thepoetryvlog.com - - Support this education and poetry project with $1 a month: anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support - - Join our community @thepoetryvlog: - Community Dialogue Updates: instagram.com/chelsea_grimmer - Cross-Platform Clips & Updates: facebook.com/thepoetryvlog - Commentary & connection: twitter.com/thepoetryvlog --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ray Dalio: "Principles: Life and Work" | Talks at Google. http://bit.ly/qlearly209 How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio. http://bit.ly/qlearly210 Jason Fried (Basecamp) and Derek Andersen at Startup Grind Global 2016. http://bit.ly/qlearly211 Founders' Stories: Basecamp's Jason Fried. http://bit.ly/qlearly212 FundersClub Live Q&A with Megan Quinn of Spark Capital. http://bit.ly/qlearly213 Pendomonium 2017 - How Product Experience Drives Investment & Opportunity Outcomes. http://bit.ly/qlearly214 Startup UCLA Accelerator: Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners. http://bit.ly/qlearly215 Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great). http://bit.ly/qlearly216 1997 WWDC Fireside Chat with Steve Jobs. http://bit.ly/qlearly217 How to Get Clarity in Your Life | Rob Dyrdek on Impact Theory. http://bit.ly/qlearly218 Behind the scenes at YC Demo Day, where the hottest new startups pitch their companies. http://bit.ly/qlearly219

Derek Andersen was a bit of a world traveller growing up, as his family split their time between several countries in Europe and their home in Tampa, Florida. He kept traveling as an adult, jetting all around the globe to build startup communities and connect with entrepreneurs, wherever they were. These communities are part of Startup Grind, an organization that nurtures startup ecosystems through events, media and partnerships with organizations like Google for Entrepreneurs. Andersen founded Startup Grind in 2010 with one location in Silicon Valley. Today, it’s active in nearly 100 countries around the world, including over 200 cities. Over the years, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs find mentorship, connect to partners and hires, pursue funding, and reach new users. Although Andersen is now settled in Redwood City, CA, it’s pretty obvious that his influence reaches far beyond the borders of California. In our interview, Derek talked with me about the beginnings of Startup Grind, how he gets the most out of every interaction at a conference, and why VC funding isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. He’s met a ton of famous business people over the years, and he also opened up about his favorite interviews and the fact that even tech giants are people, too. Startup Grind has a ton of exciting stuff going on these days, including the rollout of their new event-hosting software (discussed in detail in this episode) and their 2017 Global Conference later this month. The conference includes an exhibition of 125 startups, and you can visit StartupGrind.com/startup if you want to apply to showcase your company! Derek is a friendly, welcoming guy who’s happy to help you with your entrepreneurial journey if he can. You can find him on Twitter @derekjandersen, or you can shoot an email to derek@startupgrind.com if you’d like to get in touch. In this episode with Derek Andersen, you’ll learn: — How to work with people at big companies — What’s going on in Silicon Valley right now — How Startup Grind got started — Why the best startups usually begin as side projects — Why big names in tech are people like you and me — How to get the most out of a conference or event — Why he got into the events industry — Why you might NOT want to accept VC funding — All about Startup Grind’s new event-hosting software — What to expect at Startup Grind’s upcoming global conference ---- Download show notes and transcripts at www.powderkeg.co This episode of Powder Keg is brought to you by DeveloperTown. If you’re a business leader trying to turn a great idea into a product with traction, this is for you. DeveloperTown works with clients ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 companies who want to build and launch an app or digital product. They’re able to take the process they use with early stage companies to help big companies move like a startup. So if you have an idea for a web or mobile app, or need help identifying the great ideas within your company, go to developertown.com/powderkeg. Thanks again to everyone who has shared an episode of Powderkeg, subscribed to us on iTunes, or left us a review. It’s the only way we’re going to spread this message and reach new people and we could do it without you. We’re coming out with new episodes every Tuesday, so make sure you subscribe on iTunes or at powederkeg.co/itunes

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Derek Andersen, Founder & CEO of Startup Grind. Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind's values of giving, helping others, and making friends have spread across the world. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 3,000 events for more than 150,000 entrepreneurs. In 2009 Derek founded Vaporware Labs, incubating many products including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. His entrepreneurial career consists of mostly spectacular failures with occasional successes. Previously, he worked at Electronic Arts on games like Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge, Sims 3, and The Godfather. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three children. This is the audio recording from the live event on 11/14/2016. https://www.startupgrind.com https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

Today we have a great conversation with Silicon Valley Legend Vinod Khosla, co-founder of sun Microsystems and subsequently Khosla Ventures.    Vinod has run Khosla ventures since 2004, prior to that Vinod spent time at the VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Vinod studied engineering in India and at age 20 failed to start a soy milk company. After receiving degrees from in Electrical Engineering from IIT New Delhi, Biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Vinod started Sun Microsystems in 1982 which eventually sold to Oracle for over $7 Billion.    Lets listen into Vinod Khosla interviewed in Silicon Valley by Startup Grind’s founder Derek Andersen. 

Hey there and welcome to Monday’s episode of the startup grind podcast. Today we have an awesome chat with the legendary Guy Kawasaki. Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and executive fellow at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and Chief evangelist of Apple. He is the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media,Enchantment, and ten other books. Guy has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.    Guy is interviewed by startup grind’s founder Derek Andersen for a globally held google hangout. streamed live from google hq in mountain view california. Lets listen in. 

Hey there and welcome to wednesday’s episode of the startup grind podcast. Today we have a great chat with Adam Lashinsky, author of the wildly popular and revealing book "inside apple". Adam is the senior editor at large for fortune covering silicon valley and wall street. He’s been on the magazines staff since 2001. Prior to that he worked at the Street.com and the san jose mercury news. He is also a weekly panelist on foxes cavuto on business program. Adam  co-chairs fortunes annual technology conference Fortune Brainstorm Tech, and is a seasoned speaker and panel moderator. Lets listen into this great interview between adam and startup grind’s founder Derek Andersen recorded in 2013. 

Hey there and welcome to Monday’s episode of the startup grind podcast. Today we have something a bit different. our founder Derek andersen who is also our Silicon Valley chapter director is used to asking the questions at his events; is in this episode he is the featured guest at our chapter in phoenix Arizona. Director Christie Kerner goes over Derek’s early life, professional experience and the origin story of the worlds largest entrepreneurial community. Lets listen into this chat with Startup Grind’s Founder and CEO Derek Andersen: 

Today we have a great chat with the co-founder and CEO of Postmates. Bastian Lehmann. Bastian is originally from Munich and graduate of the AngelPad Accelerator in San Francisco. He originally founded Postmates in 2011 and has seen incredible growth fueled by revolutionary partnerships with companies like Chipotle, Starbucks. and 7-Eleven. Postmates now operates the largest on-demand delivery fleet with 13,000 Postmates in 28 metropolitan markets. Lets listen into this great interview with Bastian interviewed by Startup Grind’s founder Derek Andersen in San Francisco. 

Newport Beach’s own leading house duo Slander has been tearing up nightclubs in the area for some time now. Consisting of Derek Andersen and Scott Land, the DJ group has earned residencies at such venues as The Yost Theater and Ten Nightclub. They’ve shared the state with many top artists, including Avicii, Benny Benassi, Cosmic […] The post Raw Goodage Radio Episode 012 (Mixed by Slander) appeared first on Raw Goodage.