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title: POAPathon C0 Onboarding Documentation
tags: [Onboarding Questions, Onboarding]

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POAPathon C0 Onboarding Documentation
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###### tags: `Onboarding Questions` `Onboarding`

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- **Location:** 1v1 meetings via lettucemeet
- **Date:** March 8-9, 2022
- **Agenda**
1. Introductions `10min`
2. Project discovery `40min`
3. Program details `10min`
- **Participants:**
    - MetaPod
    - MDAO
    - POAPathon
    - Artxv
    - Sybil DAO (TBD)
- **Host:** MetaPod
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:dart: Introductions
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- Explain the call flow
- Introductions
    - MetaPod members + C0 Project
    - Tap.eth: Spent 10 years building cybersecurity companies. Background in market
    - Raiders: Based in India and heading operations for design services & structureing, sales and product development

:mag: DAOscovery
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### Big Picture
- What problem are you trying to solve?
    - Background
        - Started participating in Volatility.com and started a design contest/hackathon for POAPs ('POAPathon' as a joke). 
        - Started a 3-week long event with 3,000 attendees. Gave away $50K. Cosmo first got involved here
        - Initially wanted to create a tool to create POAPs easily. MVP was A typeform to submit bounties
    - Products/Services
        - Design services & Holiday Special POAPathon had good traction. Got $35K in sponsorships for POGs IRL at ETH Denver. 
        - NFTs at Cryptogs.xyz
        - Weekly/bi-weekly show called POAPathon Live (marketing engine)
        - POAPathon Events 
- Who are your key stakeholders?
    - POAP: Run community curation call every week for leadgen 
    - Sponsors: 
    - Artists: 
    - Contributors
        - Devs: Cosmoburn, 0xAA, Deep, Steve
- Who is your end user?
- What is the business model? How do you, or will you monitize?
    - Marketplace for design services (with frontend & similar to 99designs)
        - Model: Marketplace with transaction fees (not activated yet)
        - $1-10k/mo
    - POAPathon Events
        - Model: Sponsorship ($30K)
    - POGS & POAPs
        - Model: Sponsorship ($XX) 
        - $10K Manufacturing costs + $XX Design costs
    - Cryptogs NFT Game
        - Model: Primary & Secondary sales
- How do you currently measure results?
- What are your current capital requirements?
    - Knows how to purpose capital efficiently 
    - Multi-sig (4 of 12) with decent amount of money, but without any expenses 
    - Budget: 100K for Next 3 months 
    - Goal 1: Needs to start paying people (esp for core contributors)
    - Goal 2: Hire leads (Ops, Community, Dev, Social Media Design & Treasury) 
### Current Environment
- Describe the people in the DAO today? 
    - 30+ countries. 7,000 in Discord, 100 weekly active. 
    - Artists livestreaming in the Discord on daily basis (e.g. 8-hour livestream for International Women's Day)
    - "Vaynermedia but not Vaynermedia" - Opportunity to become a decentralized media house 
    - Predominantly, the community doesn't have dev and Discord mod skills
- How many are contributors?
    - What are their responsibilities?
    - 30-50 contributors. Cosmo & Tap are the main coordinators
    - Open community where anyone can contribute (as compared to Bankless which requires weeks of onboarding)
    - Manually building squad roles
    - Dework to facilitate payments
- What are you doing well today and where can you improve?
    - Not dealing with legal structure, finance, tax today (esp US jurisdiction)
    - Creating structure for core contributors to start executing (e.g. grants)
    - Organizing Community Discord
- What challenges do you come across on a daily basis?
    - Paying contributors & recruiting leads 
    - Legal formation 
    - Getting funding (currently via Gitcoin Grants)
- What roadblocks are you facing today?

### Goals
- Tell me about your goals?
    - Financial, operational?
- When would you like to achieve these goals?
- What would a perfect outcome look like in your work?
- **What do you want to get out of this program?**
    - Legal Structure, Taxation & Funding (includes Contributor Compensation)
    - Contributor Compensation: Full time vs Fractional contributions 
    - Discord Design / community structure

:closed_book: Program Details
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### High-level Overview
* https://hackmd.io/@MetaPod/HktVhVfbc

### When/where to show up
* Program start date March 14th

