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Early-stage startups incubator to attract, incubate, and help launch early-stage startups building on NEO Blockchain #53

Open grantshares-dapp[bot] opened 1 year ago

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

Abstract

NEO Blockchain is a revolutionary blockchain platform that is committed to building a smart economy by utilizing digital assets, digital identities, and smart contracts. We are delighted to have the opportunity to submit this proposal for a $50,000 grant from NEO Blockchain for an incubator of early-stage web 3.0 startups.

The overall and broad proposal description.

Our incubator aims to attract, incubate, and help launch early-stage startups building on NEO, backed by extraordinary, and ethical founders and teams.

Motivation

The concept of web 3.0 is gaining traction among entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and tech enthusiasts alike. Web 3.0 is a decentralized and distributed internet, where users are enabled to securely and safely store, share and transact digital assets while maintaining complete control over their data. Web 3.0 offers a secure, trusted, and transparent platform for businesses to conduct their activities, providing users with a secure, low-cost, and efficient means to securely transact and store digital assets.

The current market situation showed that while the business models can be good, the people behind projects are actually implementing them so we felt the urge to contribute to growing the new generation of extraordinary founders, and ethical teams.

Goals

We aim for quarterly cohorts of early-stage startups, the first one being incubated starting early February for 6 weeks process.
While the incubator is not focused on just one blockchain, we want to narrow it so as to attract founders, teams, and early-stage startups building on a very limited number of blockchains including NEO. Why NEO Blockchain? There are many reasons, but especially having in mind the current state of web 3.0, NEO maintains a clear distinction from other standard blockchain platforms in its focus on being regulatory-compliant and a development platform for decentralized applications. 

Deliverables & Roadmap

Specify deliverables in detail, including the following info for each:

Also, provide a roadmap overview for the deliverables.

Every cohort will have at the end a demo day, all the startups will be listed on the websites, and we will provide PR materials for the startups and the NEO blockchain.

The cohorts will start beginning of February, May, August, and November, the activities will be transparent on the website, and shared in NEO's online communities (Telegram & Discord). We will split the funding into 4, based on the cohorts, and will use them as part of the funding contribution from the incubator ONLY for the projects building on NEO Blockchain.

The main benefit for NEO Blockchain and the community is that we will do our best to bring into the ecosystem good projects with excellent, and ethical founders, and teams.

Deliverables Verifiability

How would the community be able to verify that the promised deliverables (or milestones) were successfully achieved? For each deliverable/milestone, add supporting info on how it can be verified by the community.

Everything will be documented on the website, and also we will post on NEO's Telegram & Discord regular updates.

Budget Plan

$50,000 in GAS

It is the minimal viable budget that will be split into 4 (the 4 cohorts of 2023) and will assure that we can support 3-4 early-stage startups building on NEO in each of the cohorts. We have also tech partnerships, mentors, other resources, and investors lined up to invest in good projects so the funds will be used with responsibility.

It is not a large budget, but we aim to have a successful year with the incubator, so next year apply for more.

About You / Your Organization

Short-Bio

Few sentences about you or about your organization.

Portfolio of Projects / Past Experience

Provide information about what you've done in the past. What is your experience? What did you build/achieve in the past?

6 years in web 3 - complex experience CMO/ CEO/ BD - CloudCoin, Latoken, MetaStudio, I am an advisor in 10+ blockchain projects, a speaker at conferences, dedication to contributing to the growth of Web 3.0 in a sustainable way. Here is my speaker media kit including links to videos from events & conferences around the world - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b2fPQImqyp5MNloH7CERHQi_RY25mZsD/view?usp=share_link.

There's no problem if you don't have vast past experience or a portfolio. We just want to hear more about what you've done or have been doing.

Proposal Info :clipboard:

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    "value" : "d2a4cff31913016155e38e474a2c06d08be276cf"
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ioannistsil commented 1 year ago

Hello , it's seems you ask a large amount of funds i believe its better to contact NEO for ecoboost funding https://neo.org/eco

adrianniculescu commented 1 year ago

Hello , it's seems you ask a large amount of funds i believe it's better to contact NEO for ecoboost funding https://neo.org/eco

Thank you very much for the feedback, I will check the link and apply there also, all success!

csmuller commented 1 year ago

Hey @adrianniculescu, I know the GrantShares page says that grants are up to USD 50'000, but currently we are rather reluctant of spending such amounts at once. I agree with @ioannistsil that it can make sense to apply at the EcoBoost Fund instead. Either way I think you will have to break down in more detail on what the funds will be used.

adrianniculescu commented 1 year ago

Hey @adrianniculescu, I know the GrantShares page says that grants are up to USD 50'000, but currently we are rather reluctant of spending such amounts at once. I agree with @ioannistsil that it can make sense to apply at the EcoBoost Fund instead. Either way I think you will have to break down in more detail on what the funds will be used.

Thank you for the feedback. Can I edit the initial file or just add in the comments for an in-depth breakdown? Initially, the request was for $100k, after that, I saw the limitation. For NEO, the required maxim amount was even smaller.

ioannistsil commented 1 year ago

Hey @adrianniculescu, I know the GrantShares page says that grants are up to USD 50'000, but currently we are rather reluctant of spending such amounts at once. I agree with @ioannistsil that it can make sense to apply at the EcoBoost Fund instead. Either way I think you will have to break down in more detail on what the funds will be used.

Thank you for the feedback. Can I edit the initial file or just add in the comments for an in-depth breakdown? Initially, the request was for $100k, after that, I saw the limitation. For NEO, the required maxim amount was even smaller.

You can edit your proposal , but 100k is to much for Grantshares instead apply to Ecoboost which has 200M for projects who wish to build on NEO. Best luck

adrianniculescu commented 1 year ago

Hey @adrianniculescu, I know the GrantShares page says that grants are up to USD 50'000, but currently we are rather reluctant of spending such amounts at once. I agree with @ioannistsil that it can make sense to apply at the EcoBoost Fund instead. Either way I think you will have to break down in more detail on what the funds will be used.

Thank you for the feedback. Can I edit the initial file or just add in the comments for an in-depth breakdown? Initially, the request was for $100k, after that, I saw the limitation. For NEO, the required maxim amount was even smaller.

You can edit your proposal , but 100k is to much for Grantshares instead apply to Ecoboost which has 200M for projects who wish to build on NEO. Best luck

thank you, gain for your feedback. All success!

csmuller commented 1 year ago

Hey @adrianniculescu, I know the GrantShares page says that grants are up to USD 50'000, but currently we are rather reluctant of spending such amounts at once. I agree with @ioannistsil that it can make sense to apply at the EcoBoost Fund instead. Either way I think you will have to break down in more detail on what the funds will be used.

Thank you for the feedback. Can I edit the initial file or just add in the comments for an in-depth breakdown? Initially, the request was for $100k, after that, I saw the limitation. For NEO, the required maxim amount was even smaller.

Just as a last clarification. The GrantShares smart contracts use a configurable token limit (for GAS/NEO). Since the token prices went down in general, the maximum amount of funds also went down. We didn't adjust that yet since we are anyway more comfortable with smaller grants ATM.