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Bethany Crystal

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Welcome to Day 3 of this week's micro-series: Building WITH the Public Each day, I'm sharing an example about how a different student-led activation has helped shape my real-time thinking as I start a learning app company, MuseKat. Today's post is all about two different grad school immersions I participated in this semester -- one at NYU and one at Columbia. I don't have an engineering degree or a business degree, but somehow these schools invited me in to share out about my process as a no-code AI-first startup builder. It was a ton of fun, and the students grilled me on a lot of stuff that was really helpful in the end. This is why I love to teach WHILE I'm on the learning curve. And I intend to keep doing it. https://hardmodefirst.xyz/building-with-the-public-battle-testing-startup-economics-with-grad-students
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So last night was kind of a big deal because I got to visit City Hall in /new-york for the first time and receive an awards for a micro-grant on behalf of my block association, The Manhattan 75! Some of you probably know I’ve been pushing reactivating hyper-local community on my block for the past year or so. I started bootstrapping my own block association last summer, with the help and encouragement of @cabin (h/t @savannah and @hillis!) and despite a lot of slow starts and long pauses, I’ve somehow managed to become President, rebrand, and recruit a half-dozen eager volunteers to get engaged. One of those volunteers got so empowered by rat mitigation that he recruited NYC’s Rat Czar to our block (via cold email) and at her encouragement we applied for this grant. We will set out to create a street-wide “rat pack” with “rat squads” per block, and some mitigation efforts. Part of this grant award is being included in a community of 15 other block association, tenant association and community garden orgs in the city. In other words, I’m in another neighborhood accelerator. 😜 The cycle continues. This is what it feels like to learn and build with community.
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