web3:4Life Guild will help Catalyst projects become pitch ready for community advisors, IdeaFest, contributors, customers, and investors. Being funded in this challenge will allow us to co-develop organizational fundamentals without being a financial burden on their nascent organization. Working across multiple organizations will allow us to distill common threads and contribute to open research valuable to the community at-large for further developing the Cardano ecosystem.
Artifacts we'll help co-create with Catalyst Projects:
- Foundational organizational elements:
- Shared vision
- Values
- Principles
- Mission and Process
- A well defined revenue development plan
- Guy Kawasaki inspired 10 slide pitch deck
Ways of bringing about these products may include:
- Sourcing the collective intelligence of contributing members of the project
- Using framework based facilitation methods
- Market and sales validation support
- Developing capabilities to hear from ideal customers
- Identifying blue ocean opportunities
- Uncovering distinct competencies/secret sauce
- Realizing the project’s unique potential sourced from the collective intelligence of both contributors and customers
We've been described as a praxis-based guild, strongly connecting togetherness into sense-making, meaning-making, and choice making.. Another way of seeing our work is divided amongst three categories:
- Framework facilitated processes
- Collective sense making
- Descriptive self awareness
- Values articulation
- Co-discovering potential
- Digital campfire sessions
- BEING together
- Gratitudes, celebrations/mournings, storytelling
- Collective meaning making
- Pattern mapping
- Organizational planning and path-finding
- TheoryU inspired Case ClinicsCollective choice making
- Strategic thinking sessions
- Rapid preference signaling sessions
- Research
- Live human to human conversations
- Market validation
- Contribute to open research
- Business Development:
- GoToMarket strategy
- Outreach support
- Co-evolving business development processes
In our experience, among the most difficult and salient challenges facing web3 organizations today is creating coherent culture, agreeing on shared values, vision, & mission, orienting towards the greater potential of the project, and developing effective means of communicating these insights. Good contributors and investors know how important these elements are, and will most often avoid participating with organizations who skipped doing the necessary collective sense making, meaning making, and choice making required for long term success.
Our work will help clarify these foundational elements for Catalyst projects (funded or not) ensuring that critical north star-level agreements are in place. This leads to greater internal understanding of shared aims and a greater degree of external investability.
The most significant risk is low engagement. There is the potential to have low attendance for commons-tending sessions and low energy/enthusiasm from organizations. We will engage our existing network in the Cardano community (as well as other chains) to ensure that all sessions are well attended and all research and business development is impactful.
Another risk is in delivering substantial value that cannot be measured effectively by the KPIs. To mitigate this risk we will track the proposal KPIs from the outset as well as provide an accounting of additional value delivered.
In the worst possible scenario we would not engage with enough organizations to have effectively earned the grant amount within the time period specified in this proposal. In this case, we will extend work beyond the specified time and report to the Catalyst audit team.