--- tags: EthDenver 2023 --- # Streetwear DAO and [DAOhaus](https://daohaus.club/), EthDenver 2023 *Micheal Emel, Dekan Brown, Sam Kuhlmann and earth2travis* Trend spotters are extracting value from young people who are already setting trends all over the world. Drop culture manipulates a false scarcity - Young people could do more accurate and higher quality design and creativity - Thus, bypass big platforms and fashion industry Regenerative fashion manufacturing Street culture + remix and adding identities Team up young people with mentors in fashion! Decentralized Marketplace & Incubator for small businesses Types of DAOs: - Venture DAOs - Investments with people pulling their money together - Service DAO - Community that offers service and shares resources - Product DAO - Meta layer, like open-source projects, with contributors collaborating - Hybrids - Examples - Development firm that also offers products - Venture firm that also offers services Berlin Co-Ops - Caring is core - Addressing trauma in high functioning groups Streetwear DAO - Already has a network of advisors - Ready to start with incubators and accelerators - Build a framework with guardrails - Attracted to 501c3 and global network of LLCs - Trying to protect against fashion industry powers - Collection of multiple DAOs - Some have more autonomy than others - Some have better ways to interact with legal Challenging to plan everything out at the start - Grow organically - Set the rails - Design is iterative - Young people are going to tell us how to do it 1st build the community - Connect with mentors - Use funding to address specific issues - Focus on understanding, not prescribing - Use community tech and on chain tech - Fundraising, with share ownership Federated Model - Inspired by Dream DAO Check out [MetaFactory](https://www.metafactory.ai/) To avoid equity, consider a tax deductible donation instead. Marketplace - Social - For profit - Benefit of some successes from the incubator Blockchain can track decisions Current: - Bringing on advisors - Figuring out legal - Trying to prevent being targeted Community and open source development - Looser structures allow forking - Network can grow like mycelium and seeds - A DAO can fork away from a hostile takeover - The thing that's most resistant to capture is community - Especially if the community has skin in the game and ownership - Ethereum has more capture resistance…community New models of ownership: - DAO shares as equity - Sweat equity and power - Contributions are meaningful - But equity is responsive to blood, sweat and tears Accelerator participants are DAO members - Demo Day can be a community discussion about what gets funded - Ownership among the community is interesting to explore What about Intellectual property? - Can be licensed - What about a secondary market? Look at the Techstars model and improve upon it See about equity and ownership for contributions Brand economy - feeling you're part of a brand DAOhaus Resources: [DAOhaus V3: The Protocol for Purpose-Driven Governance](https://daohaus.mirror.xyz/bcJCN2H7vow6xRE977A4pTWUNR0vqrgTscFLtu2ttn8) [Governance Design and Custom DAO App Development](https://bootleggers.wtf/) [DAO it Like You Mean It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXVuM70GC8)