Please describe your proposed solution.
The purpose of this project is to provide entrepreneurship classes at the Catalyst After Town Hall. These classes will cover a variety of topics, including opportunity identification, business planning, financial planning, marketing, sales, customer service, teamwork, leadership, ethics, growth, and succession planning. The classes will be taught by Lloyd Duhon, COO of DripDropz and an experienced entrepreneur and business professional.
The classes will be held every other Wednesday of each month from 11 October 2023 through 28 February 2024. Each class will be one hour long. The classes will be held in a breakout room at the conclusion of the main Town Hall event
The target audience for the classes is Cardano blockchain enthusiasts and Catalyst project builders who are interested in entrepreneurship and want to improve their Cardano Businesses.
The classes will be interactive and engaging. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in discussions, exercises, and projects. They will also have the opportunity to network with other professionals in our space.
The classes will provide the participants with the knowledge and skills they need to start or improve their own businesses. The participants will learn how to identify business opportunities, write business plans, raise capital, market their products or services, and sell their products or services. They will also learn about customer service, teamwork, leadership, ethics, growth, and succession planning.
The classes will help to create a more entrepreneurial community. The community members who participate in the classes will be more likely to start their own businesses. They will also be more likely to contribute to the Cardano economy.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
The Catalyst Open Category has four requirements.
- small
- short
- open source
- unable to fit into any other Fund 10 challenge.
This proposal fits all four. We believe that this is a valuable project that will benefit our whole community. The entrepreneurship classes will provide participants with the knowledge and skills they need to start their own businesses.
This is a stand alone project, however if the community is receptive, there are other opportunities for classes that can be produced in a similar format in future funding rounds.
We are below the category maximum price, and set at exactly the 6 months of the required short time window.
All of our production will be released to the community under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Licensing.
We do not fit in another category because there is no category currently for educational classes for the Cardano community.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
The project will be successful if an after town hall session is completed, and the video is uploaded to YouTube every other Wednesday for the duration. Additional success will be measured by the number of Short segments produced, and the number of views accumulated by the project over the lifetime of the project.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
The completed videos from each session will be shared on YouTube. Shorts will be created from each session and will be shared on YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. At the end of each month, a report will be provided with views for each video. Every Presentation material that is produced will be linked in the video description.