Advice on Building a Community from Tim Ferriss
- A mediocre blog is worse than no blog
- Don't blog if you don't enjoy writing
- Who reads your stuff is more important that the number (e.g. bloggers are really good for this)
- Tailor your message to your audience
- Tim got his vBulletin up and running very quickly
Source Tim Ferriss
Lessons from Gaia Online
Craig Sherman: Yeah, it was started by a group of comic book artists and one sort of genius developer literally out of their apartment. They built something for themselves, and for their friends, that just ended up resonating with, at this point, five million plus users every month. But it was extremely authentic, and they're just trying to build something that fit around their own internal passions.
CS: Yeah, right now eighty percent of the revenue comes from people who buy virtual items. But I think it's fair to say the company is still under-monetized, or put together, focused a lot more on user experience than trying to figure out how to generate a lot of money. Because we want to make something big, something we could tell our grandkids about.
