One of the objectives of the town is to provide affordable housing, with the community founders hoping to offer high-quality, environmentally friendly homes – many built at a factory on site – at 60 per cent of the market value.
It's worth noting that the best community founders I've met, always have a really clear, strong point of view and they don't compromise around it.
Think back, for example, to the 1950s, when the proposed European Defence Community foundered in part because the French had one idea of the role of German troops (they feared a German resurgence), and the British and Americans had another.
Kelly (2012), a QS community founder, contends that the current moment of self-quantification is merely an intermediary step toward "the future self"—one that Swan (2013, p. 95) describes as "spatially expanded with a broad suite of exosenses".
In the Ethereum community, founder Vitalik Buterin has been vocal in trying to stamp out these scams, which have often involved fake accounts using his name.
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is founder of Daily Kos, the nation's premier political online community, founder of the SportsBlogs network (SBNation.com) and co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics.
"If you think about what's different about 8tracks is that it's fundamentally a community," founder and CEO David Porter told me in a phone interview.
As a community founder, you select a topic on whatever you'd like, then invite other users to contribute reviews and other content (you can elect to moderate this as it comes in).
On 9 December 2008, Jimmy Wales, who holds the board-appointed "community founder" seat on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, told the UK's Channel 4 News that he had briefly considered legal action.
"While we want to get Tasks done, our biggest goal is to connect communities," founder and CEO Rahul Ahuja told me in an interview.
What is of interest is forming a "curated" community of founders who help one another and provide each other with investment opportunities, and on that front, Founders Den is proving very successful, especially for its creators.
