It’s best to lead by not making it about you. That’s probably good advice for life but its certainly good advice for getting involved in a startup community. As I wrote on Monday, people will help you out if you raise your hand and ask for help. But, you’ll be more successful is you help them out first.

I tend to think of the startup community as a really welcoming place. If you have an idea, start working on it and then raise your hand to tell people about it (in an authentic way) - people will help you out.

We don’t always do a particularly good job of getting the broader community (those who haven’t self-identified) involved in what we’re doing. I’m not sure the best way to do that but I think that it's crucial to long term sustainability of our community.