Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#1

Post by ksusha » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 11:48 PM UTC

Which other online communities for asking questions/advice would you recommend for startup founders/entrepreneurs?

answers.onstartups.com reddit.com/r/startups/ linkedin groups what else?

Re: Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#2

Post by Swizec » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 12:01 AM UTC

Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) enough Twitter proves to be very useful once you find the right people.

Also there's a cool facebook group if you're in Europe: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205823522802657/

Re: Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#3

Post by abhijitr » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 12:48 AM UTC

Quora

Re: Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#4

Post by davidhansen » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 5:57 AM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #2

Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) enough Twitter proves to be very useful once you find the right people. Also there's a cool facebook group if you're in Europe: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205823522802657/

Surprisingly, indeed. My experience with twitter is that it's not a very good communication medium, let alone a community-building one. You can follow "the right people" all you want, but without being followed, the conversation is rather one-sided.

Re: Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#5

Post by dchuk » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 6:47 AM UTC

quora is good, there are a few good subreddits, hacker news is great (obviously). my forum http://saasaholics.com might be worth a peek as well.

Re: Ask HN: Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

#6

Post by DanBC » Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 1:25 PM UTC

For online communities I recommend meatball wiki

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)