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Build Your Startup,
The Journey,
And the Raise!!
Session 9
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What is a Web3 Startup
Journey of a Startup
Break
Love thy startup, not the Idea
Fundraise like a Pro
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What is a Web3 startup?
Core team (centralized)
Achieving goals for the community
For a shared objective
using incentives to gain traction before PMF
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How do you align?
Core team
Open Source everything*
Promote independent decision making
Share and brainstorm openly
Communicate, fail, re-communicate
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How do you align?
Community
Your personality = Your brand
Ask for help from community
Lead community by actions
Engage in public conversations
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How do you align?
Incentives
Token is not the only play
Community likes to outperform
Community likes to be acknowledged
Community likes to lead
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What is a Web3 Startup
Journey of a Startup
Break
Love thy startup, not the Idea
Fundraise like a Pro
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Only constant in a startup is that the journey is unique and you unlearn things you learn constantly
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Building from 0 to 1
Story 1: How we started
Story 3: Community Help / Gitcoin Grants
Story 2: Simona and Branding
Story 4: Raising Series A
Push is the result of shared knowledge
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Things to remember?
Hacking project ≠ Startup
Be shameless in asking community
Identify your weakness
When in doubt, use your network to conclude ideas
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What is a Web3 Startup
Journey of a Startup
Break
Love thy startup, not the Idea
Fundraise like a Pro
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What is a Web3 Startup
Journey of a Startup
Break
Love thy startup, not the Idea
Fundraise like a Pro
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Love thy startup… but for the right reasons!
Why are you spending your life and time on the project you created?
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Love your idea… please don’t
Startups are meant to disrupt
Ideas have a lifespan… sometime they are short
But sometimes they fail
You can build a world class product or world class ego
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Pivot, Kill, or Double Down
Your startup success comes from community liking what you built
User Synthesis to eliminate Bias
Don’t be afraid to pivot or kill
Understand User Persona
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What is a Web3 Startup
Journey of a Startup
Break
Love thy startup, not the Idea
Fundraise like a Pro
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Fundraise journey
Grants first, fundraise later
Creating deck is an art, the minimal kind one
Practice once, then repeat 100x
Pitching time… start small, then aim for big
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Let’s practice
Incoming deck example
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Future Protocol
Plans
Extend DeFi aspect of protocol to invest users earnings in a separate pool and generate additional profit for them. Charge extra fee on the newly acquired profit of the user when they withdraw.
Bring user to user messaging that are near instant in the future.
Keep optimizing protocol and explore L2 solutions to further reduce gas cost.
Continue building user centric features like spam control for users, voting for governance and removal of a service, 2 way channel approval, etc.
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Future Ecosystem Plans
Cross Chain
Composability
Develop SDK
Provide Value Added Services
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Let’s practice
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V/s
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Remember this when creating deck
VCs want to understand idea… not how fancy it is
No show off on how you can design
Be clear, and be fast (10-12 min pitch)
Make it simple and mobile friendly
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Some great Resources
🌱 Kernel
Uber Deck
AirBnB Deck
YCombinator Seed Deck
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Thank you
If this helped, give a shoutout on twitter
Feel free to ask questions or give feedback there!
It means the world to us ❤️❤️
@harshrajat
@pushprotocol
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