🍁New Year, New Season - Positive Sum +Σ DAO Season 2 x 2023 Launch🥂 Officially launching season 2: building decentralised startup support propositions which recognise & reward all types of capital provided to help grow new startups, not just financial https://t.co/0PLMF35X0P

The Future of Building: AI, Solo Founders, and What Comes Next for Startups

I just published Burnout and the Hustle: Lessons in Leading Through High-Stress Periods https://t.co/lPYaLlCu49 #startup #MentalHealth #PersonalDevelopment #selfcare #holidayseason

Requesting faucet funds into 0xa7650548131f618c420e6971eBa84cE4cFA49b53 on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network via

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Building The Entrepreneurship Infrastructure of The Future Reflecting on our recently wrapped up season 1 building a more open, equitable, and positive-sum startup community using Web3 as a platform. https://t.co/eOUf0H47qY #startup #entrepreneurship #web3 #dao #nz

Crypto gets a hard time regarding its carbon footprint The truth is, new research shows that 8 big banks + 10 asset managers generated 79 x more emissions than all of crypto mining, 2.169 billion tonnes of CO2. If these banks were a country, they'd be the 5th largest emitter.

10 Emerging Lessons Learned On Early DAO Formation from Positive Sum (+Σ), a new Startup Support DAO @0xPSUM https://t.co/NRNbRikm29 #DAOs #Web3

This is a tongue-in-cheek, but realistic view of the current state of DAOs and DAO onboarding tooling - great to have this summarised as problems to solve and to be aware of, thanks @petergyang

Join us here tomorrow 9am NZT for a convo on early DAO formation & @0xPSUM's journey so far. With @leancto @simianaudio, and joined by @AnthonyMcG2 @TJohnsonLess70M @ThomasBraziel, this'll be a fun chat! #web3 #startups #founders #DAO https://t.co/EjzjCQvQee

We're hosting a welcome/info session for Positive Sum DAO this Wed/Thu (NZST). Interested in the intersection of Web3, DAOs, & more open startup communities - come join us! Super-early days, lots of opps to get involved as we explore the space together! https://t.co/e0W1e5cG3u

@forefront__ @joincolony @superdao_co interested if you've seen the same from the emerging DAOs you've been working with? Have they come to similar conclusions sooner or are there better ways to think about showing value loop sooner?

8/ Social DAOs should focus on community-building first, & likely more emergent than service DAOs, which should focus on minimum viable product/platform to show & onboard into value-delivery first, then focus on conversion of members through small bounties into full contributors.

7/ Users in service DAOs don't immediately become contributors, they need time to move through the explorer->marketplace contributor->DAO contributor loop first. Bounty board seems perfect to show how to create value early, get rewards, and help build the DAO.

6/ Either that, which allows you to onboard dao-builders and your community "service" users versus having to bring dao builders on first. Service DAOs are mostly marketplaces, so have to solve chicken and egg too.

5/ Does mean that if you haven't tokenised yet you still need a way to reward ppl, maybe with a virtual token that converts into real tokens once you're tokenised, just to make it clear of the contributor reward loop.

4/ That bounty mechanism solves onboarding onto value creation in service DAOs, rather than having to join what feels like a big working group & understand the relationship dynamics to add some value versus doing a small task for the DAO in a lightweight way, with a small reward

3/ We're realising that in service DAOs, this is probably bounty mechanism, where early bounties are DAO tasks (design us a logo, write us a community mgmt strat), but over time this becomes member focussed (find me a network, find me mentorship, etc).

2/ Whilst landing in a community to find like minds doesn't need huge onboarding, landing in a service #DAO where there's an explicit value exchange to drive the contribution loop, needs much more specific product driving that value proposition

1/ After founding & launching a #DAO over the last 3 months and trying my hardest to stick to the best-practice rhetoric around community first, product second - I'm starting to realise that only feels right for social DAOs and not all DAOs, esp. service DAOs.