‍We're sharing a recent post from the community by Mike Williams on our blog, which is a request for community Entrepreneurs In Residence (EIRs). This was originally shared as a post in the community here.
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Hey all, we announced our community Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) program a few months ago (see more here) and we’re doubling down to build out our EIR program. I wanted to post this role here in the community, since we’re of course making this a community-first role. I’m also excited to share that we’re starting to grow the Everything Marketplaces team, so I’ll be sharing more roles that we’re hiring for soon (Community Manager, Researcher In Residence, etc).

Here’s more on our EIR role in the meantime:
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Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR)

An overview of Everything Marketplaces

Everything Marketplaces is a community & world-class network of 2,200+ marketplace founders, teams, & leaders. Members range from early stage marketplace founders, to founders & leaders from top marketplaces like Thumbtack, Turo, Hipcamp, Airbnb, Whatnot, Slice, Reibus, and more.

Everything Marketplaces is where founders go to learn, grow, and accelerate their marketplace startup. We support founders with our main platform & resources, products we've launched (Marketplace School, Co-founder match, jobs board, investor database), community, weekly events (both online & offline), and even backing founders by investing in them through our early stage fund.

Our community platform has become the go-to "forum" for marketplace startups and has thousands of posts & threads where members are talking about marketplaces. We also run weekly events like group chats with founders & leaders every Tuesday, office hours, founders fundraising meetings, and monthly workshops.

We’re only a few years old, but have quickly built a name and brand that’s incredibly well respected.

You can think about Everything Marketplaces as an accelerator (i.e: Y Combinator), meets founder community & program, specific to marketplace startups and without the cohort model. We welcome aspiring founders & marketplaces across various stages and help accelerate from the starting point they join at.
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The role & opportunity

We’re starting an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) program to help later stage marketplace leaders that might be exploring their next role or opportunity start sharing their marketplace experience and insights in the community. This will not only help formulate or crystallize learnings through creating helpful content, but will lead to increased visibility and thought leadership. It will also help leaders connect with earlier stage founders, be at the forefront of opportunities (like advising roles), and build valuable connections with other marketplace leaders through our world-class network.

As an EIR, you will primarily be creating community posts, content, and resources to share your specific marketplace experience and insights with the community. This will be specific to the stages, marketplace types, along with specific topics or challenges. This will follow how our community spaces are mapped out. You will also be engaging with the community of founders in post replies, even joining in on office hours as guests. Our EIR program is specific to expertise and you will be joining a group of selective EIR’s that will collectively support the community. Our EIR’s will be leaders from top marketplaces that are specifically focused on things like product, growth, revenue & monetization, etc. Our EIR’s also often start working with some of the most promising marketplaces in the community through more formal advisor roles.

You won’t be starting from scratch as an EIR. You will be provided with a content schedule, example posts to reference, templates to use for writing them, and assistance in editing as needed. We will also provide templates for sharing on social and across your network to build distribution. We’ve put together both processes and playbooks for you to use.
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More on the role

You’ll be responsible for working alongside the Everything Marketplaces team to:

• Create content (weekly) - You’ll be creating posts in the community that will then be repurposed on our blog. The posts will be shorter form (1 page or less), then expanded on in longer form (2-3 pages) through consecutive posts to help build on a topic, learning, etc. Marketplaces are complex and highly nuanced, so the content should help break this down into specific posts that are easy for founders to read, learn more about, see examples, and also tips or takeaways that are actionable.
• Engage with founders & teams in the community - This will require being in the community to see any posts that you can help by sharing detailed replies to. This will also be replying to any comments or questions to your previous posts. This can be done by spending 15-30 minutes every other day or even 1-2 days/week, so an hour at most every week.
• Help on our office hours - This will include joining as a guest at least once/month to our weekly office hours that we have every Thursday.
• Build distribution - We expect you to update your LinkedIn with this role, share your posts that will be repurposed into blog posts on your social, newsletter, and help build distribution for the Everything Marketplaces community.
• Create additional content & resources for marketplace startups as needed - This will include other guides, step-by-step tutorials, or assisting in updating Marketplace School content.

You’ll be constantly interacting with aspiring and world-class marketplace founders, teams, and other leaders in this role. This requires a true passion for marketplaces, dedication to sharing your experience, communication with others, and supporting founders. You’ll be playing a key role in helping community members, along with shaping the direction of Everything Marketplaces.
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Your ideal skills

• Twitter & social
• Advanced skills in writing and editing (both short & long-form)
• Proven ability to build distribution (newsletters, LinkedIn, etc)
• Interacting with others through written communication
• Creating resources & content using Google Docs, Google Slides, etc
  

In addition to the above, you should have an attention to detail, process, be a structured thinker, and have the ability to communicate complex ideas or topics in a very clear way.
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Requirements

• Community member
• Previous marketplace founder (scaled past PMF and into expansion & growth stages) and/or experience working at a notable marketplace in a specific function
• Social and/or content presence (Twitter threads, blog, YouTube, etc)
• Existing blog, newsletter, and/or other distribution channels
• Ideally familiar with other startup accelerators, courses, etc
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Expectations & deliverables

• At least one long-from post in the community/week
• Sharing repurposed community post on your social, in your newsletter, and other distribution channels
• Resharing community posts and announcements to help amplify messages (as requested and occasional) 
• Joining our weekly office hours on monthly/quarterly basis, potentially leading workshops, and helping with other content creation (i.e: Office hours videos, Marketplace School content, etc)
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‍How to apply‍

Please email mike@everythingmarketplaces.com with a brief summary (2-3 sentences) sharing your specific area of expertise or where you’d like to focus on working with founders (i.e: going from 0-1, expansion, etc), a link to your community member profile, examples of community posts, social presence for reference, and additional samples of your writing or content. Please also reference our Everything Marketplaces Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) Manual before applying.
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You can connect with Mike to discuss this post in the Everything Marketplaces community here.