Investment memo: "Earlywork", the community centred startup with 3k+ members

Explore your curiosity about the community centred startup Dan & his co-founders are building in Earlywork, that’s scaled from 0 to 3000 members.

I’ve enjoyed being a member of this community from the early days so this was fun to learn more about how the co-founders compliment each other, Dan’s personal learning journey, why raising funding is not the mark of success, managing quantity vs engagement and more. 

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

01:54 - Sydney, Wollongong and Bondi

03:08 - Siblings being high flyers

04:25 - Tattoos and creative

04:58 - Unknowns of co-founding team at EW

08:26 - Founding team being a community, building a community

11:31 - Dan’s own personal learning journey

14:23 - Founders 12 months ahead as support

15:49 - Growth & fundraising for a community first startup

19:33 - Initial investment not being success

24:46 - Hardest learning to date

27:48 - Revenue models for community based startup

30:02 - Managing quantity vs engagement

33:08 -Anonymity in community

36:10 - Founders not being the first line of contact

38:07 - Key opportunity in next 12 months

39:39 - Two questions Dan gets the most

42:00 - Most engaged social platforms beyond slack