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Community Fund โ€” An early-stage accelerator to help communities grow from 0-1

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Community Fund is an initiative by The Product Folks to help communities with mentorship, funding, and important resources required to go from 0-1.

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Suhas Motwani
Hola Product Hunters :D So excited to take this live! Our mission with the Community Fund is to create a pay-it-forward movement to empower anyone looking to get interesting folks together, run a community & help others to earn a living doing what they love. ๐Ÿ”ฎ Why are we doing this? When we were starting off The Product Folks, trust us, the journey was equally hard. This is our way of giving back from the immense support weโ€™ve received from the ecosystem and help build incredible communities globally. Communities are great ways in which people learn, network and level up in their careers. We believe if thereโ€™s a supportive community for every need and domain, people part of the community will grow together. Back when we started The Product Folks, we felt there was no playbook we could replicate to grow. We were short of resources on many fronts and there was added chaos of doing something for the first time. That adds to the fun but we hope youโ€™ll have fun in many other ways :) Over the last couple of months, weโ€™ve been able to learn from some of the best global community managers and we feel that these learnings, if available at the grassroot level, can be a huge boost to the community youโ€™re trying to build. We hope this helps us bring the ecosystem together, putting our best resources in one pot, enabling us to learn and grow together at 10x rate and along the way make some wonderful friends :) We're with you at every step, we promise. Come join us for this fun ride, DMs open in case thereโ€™s anything else we could help with: https://twitter.com/TheProductfolks PS: In case you'd like to partner or you'd like to get involved, please drop a comment and I'll reach out to you, would love to chat :)
Darshan Gajara
@suhasmotwani always inspiring to see you elevate this project to another level. Congrats and good luck, Suhas :)
Suhas Motwani
@weirdowizard Thanks so much bro, hoping this one can help a lot more folks :)
Nanda Kumar M
Hey Community Visionaries ๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Ÿ™‹ ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ It's a phenomenal opportunity If you are building a community from the scratch or looking to scale. Feel free to reach out to us, and grab a chance to be a part of the tribe๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ What will you get? ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Access to inner circle of community builders ๐Ÿข Help you set the vision for the community and roadmap planning ๐Ÿ’ธ Funds and Access to the pool of sponsors โ›“๏ธ Mentorship from the folks who scaled it already ๐Ÿ‘ฅ 1-on-1โ€™s with Global Community leaders and office hours ๐Ÿงฐ Tools for hosting and engaging the community ๐Ÿ“ž Access to curated speaker list ๐Ÿ”ฎ Tried and tested event planning workflow We believe learning from other's mistakes is the best way to scale and we are here to open our playbook for you! Looking forward to hearing from you soonโœจโœจ Thanks @kevin for hunting us!! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Suhas Motwani
@kevin @nanda_kumar_m Thanks Nanda and Kevin :D
Saurabh Khante
Awesome Idea! Would love to see it take shape :)
Suhas Motwani
@saurabh_khante Thanks so much bud :)
VishnuPriya Mishra
Community initiatives and innovation are the key to scaling the growth of communities.
Mugdha
Hey Community Builders ๐Ÿ‘‹ We're super excited to introduce our unique initiative for all community builders. We have had our rollercoaster journey while building The Product Folks. Through this initiative, we are trying to give back to the community and help them learn from our failures and success. A platform where we learn together and grow together. Who can apply? Any community builder who has the vision to start a community or looking to scale the community ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€ Whom are you waiting for??Let's learn together and grow together. Apply now!!!
Megha Pathak
This looks really promising! Excited to see this shaping lives through the medium of communities this community fund powers. ๐Ÿ’ช
Utsav Patel
Woah! This looks super interesting and would be a great initiative in this community led world. Excited to see this happening.
Suhas Motwani
@utsavpm Thanks Utsav :D
Shreyanshi shah
@utsavpm Thanks Utsav ๐Ÿ˜„
Aditya Mohanty
Super excited to launch Community Fund today, a project on which we at The Product Folks have been working super hard for the past few months. Communities are already powering the next wave of products on the internet. We want to ensure that community builders don't face the same challenges that we did while building TPF. We'll be sharing our entire community building playbook that helped us start and then scale a community in India from the ground up. Building a community? Go to the website and apply to be part of the initiative. Can't wait to work together and help you build impactful communities ๐Ÿš€
David Jaenike
Pretty neat! How do you go about funding communities that apply? Is this venture capital or a more traditional loan?
Suhas Motwani
@david_jaenike Initial 3 months is a equity free grant as part of the program. Post that, if these communities are scaling and the CMs are going full time into this, we help with raising capital / sponsorships based on the space the communities are operating in.
David Jaenike
@suhasmotwani So do these communities have to pay back the initial grant eventually?
Ankit Malhotra
Great idea , wish you all the best for this .
Suhas Motwani
@ankit_malhotra6 Thanks Ankit :)
Shreyanshi shah
Hello Community Enthusiast's , Super Excited to have this live here๐Ÿ“ After experiencing and understanding the challenges of 'How to build community' and to 'Scale One', we have come up with unique initiative of Community Fund. We have grown Product folks from zero to one and now we are now here to help you. Let's convert your community vision to reality!๐Ÿ‘ Waiting for you all to apply and help you build amazing community!๐Ÿš€
Aniket Jain
Awesome! This is really interesting โค๏ธ. When everybody is busy Building cars, focus on distributing spare parts ๐Ÿ’ฏ
Suhas Motwani
@aniket_jain6 nailed it! Thanks bud :)
Paras Pundir
Here we go!
Yashraj Nayak
Love this! Looking forward to see this in action ๐Ÿš€
Sudhama Bhatia
Suhas, Aditya, and Team - you'll have built the best community of product people in India and scaled it up to amazing levels! So it's perfect that you are helping others scale their communities. Super excited to see this live!
Suhas Motwani
@sudhamabhatia Thanks so much Sudhama! Appreciate all the support and excited for what you are building :)
Sai Shinde
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ Looking forward to this, all the best! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Suhas Motwani
@sai_shinde96 Thanksss Sai :)
Divij Khanna
Awesome idea, great initiative
Abhishek Mishra
Super excited for a community product like this.Looking forward for it.
Alankrit Gupta
This is awesome, great initiative will help a lots of people in the community and benefit the product fraternity as a whole
Nishant Pandita
This is super exciting ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ Looking forward to some amazing time being part of this journey ๐ŸคŸ
Naga Bala Krishnan
@nishantpandita2 Thanks for the support :)
Suhas Motwani
@nishantpandita2 Thanks Nishant, looking forward to having you onboard :)