Hypotheses:

A big picture of the collaboration needs in a swarm model will help us accurately find and describe important opportunities to build new protocols and apps

With this map and these opportunity briefs, RnDAO will attract a higher caliber of founders and contributors, because they see an important problem that they can imagine a solution for.

Details and context

Most good founders want to build first and build fast. We struggle with founders getting lost in trying to clearly define a problem statement and map the space they are working in. It takes a lot of time and energy, they get frustrated, and they don’t do a good job at actually testing the idea they love.

In RnDAO today, we see founders with technical experience who leap into building, but who struggle to be clear and focused about the problem they need to solve, propose solutions that don’t address the root problem, and don’t know the existing competition that they will face

Goals, Short and Long Term

Long

• RnDAO knows how to get to our vision of enabling swarms and how close we are to it
• RnDAO can clearly communicate mission and trajectory internally and externally for better working relationships and collaboration
• RnDAO (and others) will know what products will make a difference in the world (of collab tech)
• Ventures are set up for success, because they know with confidence the market, the problem, the benefit, and the competition.
• RnDAO can prioritize what projects to fund and support
• RnDAO can convince investors that these projects are valuable and worth funding

Short

• Attract funders and attract entrepreneurs for Consensys Collabtech Venture Building model project and beyond
• See if these Opportunity Briefs actually attract funders and builders - what the briefs need to be to attract founders
• Do the Opportunity Briefs and the larger Ecosystem Map make the Ventures avoid mistakes and be more successful