On Deck Community builders Fellowship
Supercharge and scale your community. In 8 weeks.
The Community Builders Fellowship is an 8-week remote program where fellows learn how to create communities, get them off the ground, and sustain the magic as they scale. We're taking everything we learned building the On Deck community to help you supercharge your own.
Run our playbook on your community
Get your community off the ground
Scale while sustaining the magic
Build a sustainable business model
Join and learn from world-class community builders
Li Jin
Greg Isenberg
Brianne Kimmel
Nadia Eghbal
David Spinks
Turner Novak
Jesse Genet
Jeff Morris Jr.
Erika Batista
Sahil Lavingia
Ashley Tolbert
Andreas Klinger
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At @BainCapVC we are huge fans of @beondeck, and thrilled to be involved in this Fintech Fellowship. We need more builders in fintech, and this program will be part of building, and diversifying, the pipeline.
Two words review of @beondeck: AMAZING EXPERIENCE 🙌. And a prediction: it will become the default place entrepreneurs go (back) to throughout their career to start/explore what's next. Life is too short to wing it when there is already a place to find amazing folks to work with.
So far I’ve been in @beondeck slack for two days and raised $20,000. The program doesn’t even kick-off until tomorrow. If this doesn’t convince you to join, idk what will. #beondeck #odf6
Teaming up with @beondeck here.
Whoever I hire will get to participate in On Deck's Chief of Staff Fellowship.
It’s an incredible community to connect with and learn from others doing the CoS role.
I'll cover the cost.
Beyond moonshots, we need more 50+ year visions for anchoring the thrust and intention of our collective work.
Proud to be a recent alum of the @beondeck Fellowship.
Curriculum
Introduction
Navigating the Community Builders Fellowship
Hacking Communities 101
Starting With Why
Why community
Growing through community
Foundations of community
Starting a Community
Empowering through storytelling
Growing trust through interactions
Engineering serendipity
Scaling a Community
Business and sustainability
Scaling infrastructure
Fostering engagement
INCLUDING...
Intimate Masterminds
Build with Fellows
Expert Sessions
The On Deck Method
We're building a modern educational institution that redefines how community and learning come together. Being part of any On Deck program means you’ll have access to a community of world-class professionals. With every new program we launch and cohort we start, your network gets stronger.
Here are the cornerstones of the On Deck experience:
Deep Friendships
Unparalleled Knowledge
Community Diversity
Scaled With Software
Engineered Serendipity
Spirit of Service
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FAQ
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
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.
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.
