Supercharge and scale your community. In 8 weeks.

This program is designed for highly-curious, passionate and business-minded people who are serious about building, growing and leveling up their communities. In more detail:

• Fully committed to growing an existing community for the next 5+ years.
• Main business or responsibilities involve growing a community, ideally full time or willing to dedicate full time to it (either as a founder, director or manager).
• Business-minded individuals who’ve already have initial community traction and are thinking about the next steps to make sure their communities continue to thrive (e.g. sustainable models, building lifelong engagement, identifying the right metrics, etc)
• Interested in building high-growth, high-impact communities in terms of reach (how many lives it could touch) or depth (relevance of relationships and interactions).
• A builder or leader whose community has had some level of success, but also have awareness of the shortcomings and challenges they must tackle in order to grow further.
• Ambitious and open-minded, willing to learn and share in order to take their existing communities to the next level.
• Highly curious, believe that actively participating in a learning community is the best way to accelerate one’s learning curve.
• Eager to help others and add value first. Thrilled to be both a mentor and a mentee with fellows who have a range of expertise.

We're currently offering this as special early-bird pricing—it'll rise in the coming months, so

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Between attending your sessions (socials, fireside chats, workshops) and making the post of peer-to-peer interactions, you should expect dedicating in average 5 hours a week. Of course, you can put more hours in, if you're getting value from it.

Beyond workshops, ODCB is a choose-your-own-adventure buffet. You get out what you put in: often, the biggest contributors are also the biggest beneficiaries.

Depending on your schedule and interests, you could choose to:

• Attend everything and “gorge” yourself on knowledge until you explode
• Tune in at your leisure to attend sessions that interest you
• Or just search the directory and connect with interesting people one-on-one

Most ODCB Fellows have full-time jobs, so our programming is designed with that in mind.

Yes: ODCB will be run entirely remotely. This enables participation from all corners of the world. We’ve spent the past two ODF cohorts mastering the playbook for building remote communities and relationship building online, and will apply the same approach here.

Post-COVID, we’ll return to organizing offline programming like dinners, small gatherings, and retreats, but the core Fellowship will remain a remote-first experience.

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You can! The sun never sets on ODCB. We offer a wide range of scheduling options for our learning and socializing sessions, so you can find a time that works for you, wherever you are. While most of our live programming mostly happens on U.S. Pacific hours, we will also make sure to host sessions in times suitable for both EMEA and APAC. Anyway, it is all recorded and made available later in case you can’t attend live.

There are also many opportunities for asynchronous learning and socializing through our Slack community.

You can view our values here, but to summarize: Service, Sacredness, Respect, and Gratitude.

After the fellowship, you’ll retain access to your cohort and be able to subscribe to Membership for continued access to the On Deck ecosystem.

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