How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Community Strategy

Community Strategy: How should you engage with your community?

Once you have a community, you have to make decisions on how you wish to engage with them.

Our Free Public Roundtables have been an excellent and scalable interface through which I engage with my global community. We see entrepreneurs from every corner of the world, including those in which ecosystems are immature, resources are scarce. Since 2008, when we started, I’ve had the privilege of working with entrepreneurs from Tanzania to Talin to Taiwan at these sessions. 

You can either create your own online roundtables, or you can also participate in ours. 

In fact, do both. We can collaborate. No matter where you are.

Before the pandemic, I used to also host an in-person weekly rendezvous at Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park. 

Both local entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs from all over the world visiting Silicon Valley used to come to these. They were small, intimate sessions. Over the years, I have met entrepreneurs from Ukraine to Uganda to Uruguay in person at these sessions!

I would host meetups when I traveled to a city. I would do events with local organizers. In Chennai, at my first event with TiE, I met Girish Mathrubootham who pitched me Freshworks. The company joined our program in 2011, and went public a decade later at an over $10B market cap.

One day, after Covid, all that would return to the realm of viability, and you should consider those kinds of engagements and touchpoints.

Meanwhile, virtual gatherings work very well.

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