Please describe your proposed solution.
Cardano startups face a funding challenge, constantly outsourcing projects to professionals makes it very hard to sustain during current market conditions. However, a solution lies in partnering with Argentina's most prestigious universities.
These institutions offer technically skilled individuals who can develop projects themselves. With lower living costs, funding entrepreneurs from Argentina becomes cost-effective.
This proposal aims to foster relationships between these universities and the Cardano ecosystem, starting with entrepreneurship departments and Project Catalyst. Ultimately, it paves the way for a wave of skilled founders and a thriving startup landscape within Cardano.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
- "The purpose of this challenge category is to support student blockchain startups and onboarding to the community":
The proposal is directly aligned with the purpose of the challenge by providing direct support to qualified students to build startups in Cardano.
- "Activities to foster student Catalyst proposers and blockchain engineers"
The proposal fits into this category by preparing software engineering university students to set up their own startups and catalyst proposals.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
The main goal of the project is to onboard engineering students to Cardano, the KPIs for this proposal will be the following:
- # individuals attending the workshops
- # Catalyst proposals submitted by the mentees
- # of Catalyst's proposals funded
As for qualitative KPIs, there are also:
- Relationships with local universities
- Satisfaction of mentees with the process
- Quality of the projects and proposals
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
As for establishing initial relationships with universities, the progress would be shared via the main proposer's Twitter account via pictures with representatives from the different universities.
The virtual workshops and presentations could also be corroborated via picture submissions every week these take place. These could also be uploaded and stored on a Public Drive for anyone to audit.
As for the upload of proposals, these could be easily audited by the community, I would be a co-proposer of the proposals I've helped with.
The approval of these proposals could be also an easy way of double-checking the KPIs of these proposals that were currently reached.