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Hack To Start - Episode 24 - David Spinks, CEO & Founder, CMX Media

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January 11, 2015

Hack To Start - Episode 24 - David Spinks, CEO & Founder, CMX Media

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/

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  1. 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!
  2. "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."
  3. "I got thrown into entrepreneurship and building companies... Kinda jumped

    in with two feet and have been failing and learning ever since."
  4. "[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."
  5. "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."
  6. "If you look at some of the most thriving communities,

    the people who started them started [building relationships] way before they actually launched it."
  7. "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?'"
  8. "The first one is obviously the hardest because you're brand

    new and people have no idea who you are yet."
  9. "It's just about really helping people understand why you're doing

    it, why it's important, and the people they'll be helping."
  10. "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."