You can find the full episode here: http://hacktostart.com/david-spinks/ Hack To Start is a podcast focused on interesting people and the innovative ways their achieve success. This is the twenty-fourth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (https://twitter.com/FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (https://twitter.com/TylerCopeland), speak with David Spinks (https://twitter.com/DavidSpinks), the CEO and founder of CMX Media. David has been building communities around startups and ideas his entire career, including Zaarly, LeWeb, uDemy, and SeatGeek. He also co-founded Feast, a cooking class for people who would never go to a cooking class that got accepted into 500 Startups. He talks about the importance of building valuable communities around existing behaviours and people, what common mistakes entrepreneurs make when building communities, and more! You can find the full episode here: http://hacktostart.com/david-spinks/

2. Episode 24:
DAIVD SPINKS

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4. In This Episode:
1. HOW DAVID BUILT HIS CAREER IN STARTUPS
2. WHY COMMUNITY IS ABOUT VALUE AND EXISITING BEHAVIORS
3. HOW CMX ATTRACTED TOP TALENT & SOLD OUT IN 5 WEEKS
4. AND MORE!

5. 1[How David Built His Career In Startups]

6. "I always saw myself as wanted to be an
entrepreneur [...] I've kinda always seen
myself as wanting to create my own
thing and build my own businesses."

7. "I got thrown into entrepreneurship and
building companies... Kinda jumped in
with two feet and have been failing and
learning ever since."

8. "[On 500 Startups] Basically the best
way to get into any accelerator is to get
referrals from previous batches. [...] We
asked for intros [...] and went to every
event."

9. 2[Why Community Is About Value And Exisiting Behaviors]

10. "Both communities and companies share
a similar challenge in that [..] the
people that want to build them have a
specific idea of what they want [...] but
most of the time it's not what people
want or need."

11. "If you look at some of the most
thriving communities, the people who
started them started [building
relationships] way before they actually
launched it."

12. "The first questions I ask people is'Why
is this valuable to you to build a
community? And why's it valuable to
them to build a community?'"

13. 3[How CMX Attracted Top Talent & Sold Out In 5 Weeks]

14. "The first one is obviously the hardest
because you're brand new and people have
no idea who you are yet."

15. "It's just about really helping people
understand why you're doing it, why it's
important, and the people they'll be
helping."

16. "We had no idea how big it would be, we
had no idea how much it would cost, we
had no idea how many speakers we could
get or who they'd be... But we just
started."

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