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YOUR GUIDE TO BUILDING COMMUNITY

Community-in-a-Box is the place to start your journey on building your own healthy and engaged community. You will find resources, insights, and a community to help guide you along the way!

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COMMUNITY-IN-A-BOX

This book is a labor of love and a bit of a catharsis. It is a nuts and bolts, how-to book interspersed with the blood and guts of what it took to learn the ropes of community building between the pages.

Since publishing the first edition over four years ago, the world of community has rapidly changed, with more businesses diving in to launch communities and drive real business impact through their communities.

 

Download to your Kindle or order the paperback on Amazon today!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Mark is a startup founder & advisor, community builder, and author of the book Community-in-a-Box who is based in NYC & Taipei but mostly found on a plane. He is currently building TribeROI, an AI tech startup to enable businesses to measure the health and impact of their communities.


He was formerly the Global Startup Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS), helping startups & founders across the world to build and scale on AWS. While there, he created The AWS Startups Show, a live audio show that hosted over 300 shows featuring top startup founders and builders that reached 100,000 listeners.
He started Founders in the Cloud, a weekly newsletter read by over 7,000 subscribers about the startup journey. He also founded the Enterprise Sales Forum, a global community of 30,000 B2B sales professionals who met in person and virtually through local chapters to network with peers, collaborate, level up their sales skills, and find new opportunities.


Previously, Mark was at Stack Overflow to help launch their Enterprise B2B Q&A platform and then led efforts to expand the business in APAC. Prior to Stack Overflow, he made the jump from the corporate world to launch a startup to reinvent the HR industry.


Before his startup, he worked at a diverse group of leading technology companies, including Oracle and Siebel, in a variety of roles from technical sales to software engineering as an individual contributor and manager.
Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. When not working, he likes to explore street food from across the globe, and he can usually be seen rocking out to extreme metal.

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TESTIMONIALS

“This book encapsulates much of the wisdom and insights I learned in building lasting communities, and I hope all readers take these lessons to heart so that we may all persist long enough in our mission to see the positive impact we want to leave in the world.”

-Aim Charoenphan, Managing Partner of Aim Ventures

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“Mark transforms community building from art to science with frameworks that deliver measurable results. This is the guide I wish existed when I launched my startup community in Vietnam —it would have saved me tons of painful trial and error!”

-Bobby Liu, Co-Founder of Qrospay (former
Co-Director of Founder Institute Vietnam)

“Building and supporting a sustainable local or global community sounds easy and fun, but then the realities set in. Community-in-a-Box unpacks the challenges of creating, growing, and supporting strong communities with shared values & goals. This a manual for community leaders!”


-Dave Thomas, Founder and

Chairman of YOW!

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