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#6: Keep your team and community as close as reasonably possible. One way we do this is by keeping our team comms in our community Discord server. This may be untenable one day, but for now, it embeds strong user empathy/focus into the day to day.
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#5: Be thoughtful about your compensation philosophy day 1. For , we have docs on our comp philosophy, perks & benefits, salary function, and an equity calculator. How you compensate is an important part of culture & we wanted to be intentional about this early on.
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#4: Highest ROI recruiting approaches for us in order: (1) Recruiting in-network, (2) recruiting agencies, (3) cold sourcing. In-network recruiting was effective up to a point. We now work with some great recruiting agencies (in progress, happy so far, dm if you want recs!)
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#3: Start working with a great accounting and legal firm as early as you can, but definitely post-fundraise. Look for great partners who can advise you and that you can trust to have your back. We work with and at . Would recommend!
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#2: Document how your company works as you go. We use for our internal ops, product/engineering docs, sync agendas, etc. The specific tool doesn’t matter much. But good company docs are crucial for onboarding new teammates and tracking as your company grows/iterates.
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#1: Invest in an ATS. Most early-stage, VC-backed startups have to hire. Unless you are sourcing from a very small/known pool of talent, an ATS can keep things organized and can serve as a valuable foundation for your recruiting practice as you grow. We use at Tephra 👍
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For other early-stage founders out there: PSA that the operational overhead of running even a small company can be daunting. Starting a thread to share some of the top practices/tools we rely on to keep things running smoothly at .
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New episode with Pooja Shah (@pooja_eth), founder of
@tephralabs & @joinradius.
We discuss how decentralized human networks can address large-scale problems, independent work economy, flash teams and more!
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Congratulations & Shoutout to 🌟 on being the Finalist of Hack FEVM with #Soulmates 🏆
Can't help getting excited thinking about ✨Certification around the world✨ issued through Soulmates and securely stored on 😍
#Blockchain
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Hey y'all, new grant alert! This one gives you a chance to build with , , and . It's a super cool project too. :) Check it out and apply soon (deadline closes in a day)
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When you know for sure that it's time to move on, take all the steps you need to close out the product and/or team. But in the meantime, do whatever you can to preserve the existing momentum.
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Once a product or a team has effectively stopped, it can be extremely difficult & time-consuming to resuscitate its forward motion.
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Something I've learned the hard way in product-building is that, even in moments of indecision when deciding how to move forward, you should keep the momentum of your existing product/team alive as much as possible.
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A dear friend of mine sent me this 2010 article by Michael Arrington about why people become entrepreneurs. It's not about getting rich or becoming renowned. It's about the adventure itself. 🦜🏴☠️
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That feeling when you think you have a meeting in 30 minutes and then realize it's in 1.5 hrs instead... 😅
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📣 The most recent grant is focused on building reusable infrastructure (on and ) for use cases like and ! Check out this blog post and apply for the grant today! There's just one week left!
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First hackathon ✅ and we also won the🥇 grand prize! Thanks to my amazing hack team, , and ! Can't wait for my next hack already 🤓
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Soulmates
Soulbound tokens with provably stored metadata, powered by F(E)VM
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Thank you and for hosting an amazing hackathon, and selecting our team as the #1 project and Grand Prize winner!
And thank you to my entire team for all the amazing work you did this weekend! We truly made something special in 48 hours 😁
What a blast!
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We're proud to announce⎯ the 9 Hack FEVM finalists!
📭 Soulmates
🏛 Koios
🌐 DataMarket
🤝 ZKsig NFTs
🖼 CatalogDAO
🔐 SolShare Wallet
🤩 SPN DAO
🦕 CredLancer
😜 FIL-Peggy
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Follow along for all the #HackFEVM finalist presentations at EthGlobal.tv!
First up is #Soulmates by & team!! Soulmates is a deal factory for soulbound tokens proveably stored on - including automated demerit factories! 😅🎉🚀
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Hire people who have inherent urgency.
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Here's what we built at Hack FEVM hosted by :
📫 Soulmates – Soulbound tokens with provably stored metadata, powered by F(E)VM
Check it out here:
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Re-reading this post from 2019 "Protocols as minimally extractive coordinators". placeholder.vc/blog/2019/10/6 It's a great read and reminder! 👏
Whatever happened to Grin?
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My basic understanding is that Mirror (which we use currently for ) is web3-native, but Substack is more feature-rich and probably a better product for those who are interested in building more of an audience
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Folks who write long form content -- would you recommend Mirror or Substack, and why?
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Moving my assets off of Coinbase this weekend. Coinbase listing customer assets on their balance sheet was already a bit concerning a few months ago. I'm grateful for how easy it is to move crypto off centralized exchanges and into wallets only you own/control
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It has been a hard week for everybody in crypto, not just FTX users. I’m sad and angry.
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At we believe that impact evaluation is an important field within the realm of PGF. In collaboration w/ , we are looking for teams to win a $22k grant to build infra for programmable impact evaluators. Apply: bit.ly/ie-grant #fundingthecommons
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If you're into DeSci, public goods funding, and generally working on high-impact, interesting software with interesting teams, apply for this $22k grant! bit.ly/ie-grant You'll also collab with the and teams, which is a treat in itself 💪🤩
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Safe to assume that the #RadiusFellowship will be amazing, as everything @pooja_eth does is world class. twitter.com/pooja_eth/stat…
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Our first Radius Fellowship cohort is focused on building with the new Virtual Machine (FVM). Apply to be part of our inaugural cohort today! fellowship.radius.space And feel free to DM me if you have any questions!
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🧠 That’s why we are launching the Radius Fellowship, a cohort-based, hands-on engineering fellowship to learn new protocols, join an elite dev community, receive mentorship from core devs, and earn through project-based grants.
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If you’re anything like me, learning in a curated and structured setting with real humans instructors, mentors, and friends is 100x more efficient than suffering through incomplete docs for new protocols, buggy SDKs, and disjointed breadcrumbs on the internet. 🍪
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Check it out! The folks at Sonr are awesome, and a pleasure to work with. Would be a fun ecosystem to start contributing to :)
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New @sonr_io grant available for $1500 USDC + 3000 SNR!
The Sonr community is growing and demanding that functionality be extended to Javascript! 
The newest Sonr grant rewards contributors big $$$ to extend Sonr's functionality to JS.
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