A quick reminder about Cabinā¦
Vision: A network city of intergenerational neighborhoods
Mission: Create neighborhoods where youād want to grow up
Goal: 500 neighborhoods in the next 5 years
Obvious Truths: Live Near Friends. It Takes a Village. Do The Thing. Touch Grass. Play Infinite Games.
Asks
- Cabin Labs is looking for a Content & Community Growth Lead to help grow the Neighborhood Accelerator and our global network of neighborhoods. We would love your referrals & promotion of the role.
Updates
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Our Neighborhood Accelerator program continues to grow and improve
- We launched the second cohort of our Neighborhood Accelerator program with 25 neighborhood stewards from around the world.
- This cohort is over 50% larger than the previous cohort and the average quality of participants is higher.
- Savannahās writeup about the accelerator quickly became the #2 most read article ever on the popular cohousing newsletter Supernuclear.
- We continued receiving strong applications after the deadline, so we are going to move to rolling monthly cohorts to accommodate demand.
- At our new cadence of cohorts, we are on track for hitting our goal of 500 neighborhoods within 5 years.
Participants in Cohort to of the Neighborhood Accelerator Program
- The network society movement is growing & we remain at the forefront
- In the past monthā¦
- I spoke at the Network State Conference in Singapore to a crowd of thousands in person and tens of thousands online interested in getting involved.
- I visited Balajiās Network School in Forest City Malaysia, which kicked off a month ago and is already planning on rapidly scaling a popup village.
- We hosted Network Society Camp, a gathering of 100 builders and leaders from across the network society ecosystem.
- These gatherings showedā¦
- There is growing momentum and engagement in this ecosystem, including explosive growth in popup villages, but itās still clearly still very early.
- Cabin is at the forefront of the ecosystem as a brand and community. Our network of neighborhoods is the most advanced network city project in the world.
- In the past monthā¦
- We are experimenting with sustainable business models for our network of neighborhoods
- We are charging $400 for participating in the accelerator, but that wonāt generate sufficient revenue to be financially sustainable.
- We have helped neighborhoods apply for and receive public goods funding, and are working on a bigger partnership here.
- We plan to start experiments on: local municipality partnerships, third spaces for families, and potentially hyperlocal media.
- We are not going to run popup village events, as itās becoming a crowded market and we have more conviction in the accelerator as our growth model.
- We think thereās long-term potential in serving as a real estate brokerage for neighborhoods and are monitoring the market for opportunities.
- We think thereās long-term potential in serving as an L2 for charter cities, but Prosperaās recent setbacks may limit our current experiment there.
Highlights / 
Lowlights:
Neighborhood Accelerator: We continue to see strong signs of early PMF with the Neighborhood Accelerator program. We believe investing in the accelerator is the best path to scale our network city.
Clarity of Direction: We have seen enough signal from the initial accelerator experiments to reorient our roadmap and goals around it. We also updated our Obvious Truths.
TNS Camp: We put on an excellent event for builders and leaders across the ecosystem, and grew our conviction in building for families. We also grew our conviction that popup villages are becoming a crowded market and that the accelerator is a better fit for scaling the network city Cabin is building. We do not plan on doing more popup/camp style gatherings for the foreseeable future.
Cabin Labs Team: We just completed our Cabin Labs retreat, and Savannah, Grin, and myself are working very well together. Having a small, focused team has been great for productivity.
Community engagement: Over the past year, we have been making intentional investments in community/DAO engagement. We are now seeing much higher rates of network engagement across discord, telegram, the forum, and the census. We have some work to do to streamline channels, but itās an early positive sign of network momentum.
Marketing role: We had a false-start on bringing a marketer onto the team to help scale the accelerator, and had to part ways after the first month. On a positive note, the DAO had good intuition about this, a sign of effective community governance. We are now searching for a replacement for this role.
Prospera challenges: While our first experiment building a neighborhood in a special economic zone has been successful due to the awesome work of Neighborhood Steward @ChristineU, Prospera now faces existential risks that could impact our experiment and the broader movement.
Money
Cash (DAO + Pods): $2,722,202
Burn Rate (current approved proposals): $37.5K / month
Implied runway: 72 months = 6 years
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Shoutouts:
Brooke Bowman, Zach Anderson, and Balaji for making Network Society Camp a success
Kunal Tandon for community and governance participation
Jess Sloss, Josh Cornelius, and Joey DeBruin for advice on accelerator programs
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