Detailed Plan

CORE COMPONENTS

• Pre-work education and worksheets
• 6 week live session
• Virtual bootcamp with industry experts
• Pitch day with Crypto-specific investors
• Community Slack channel
• Recorded video archive of all sessions
• Certificate of completion
• Alumni network

WEEK 1: FUNDRAISING LANDSCAPE

VCGuest: Crypto specific VCs and investors discuss fundraising trends and investment criteria

WEEK 2: LEGAL & CRYPTO

Guest: Top legal counsel to discuss laws in different jurisdictions and how to get set up legal entities, tax implications.

WEEK 3: MARKETING & COMMUNITY

Guests: Marketing and community building experts discuss how to build a following for your project, the specificity platforms, where you can connect with users, and how to get their attention.

WEEK 4: DEVELOPER & TEAM BUILDING

Guests, Developers discuss the most important factors to consider in the technical realm, founders discuss how to recruit and build a team.

WEEK 5: MENTOR FEEDBACK

Practice pitch and get feedback before pitching to guest crypto VCs next week

WEEK 6: PITCH DAY

Pitch to investors looking to deploy capital. Potential to walk away with first seed investment.

SAMPLING OF INVESTOR/MENTOR GUESTS:

• CFund, Lightspeed, Republic, BoostVC and more… Plus founder to founder sessions with top crypto founders.
• David Roebuck, from cFund (10+ of Crypto investing experiences)
• Patrick Chang, ex Samsung, Dispersion Capital (7 of VC Crypto investing)

RESULTS & KPIS:

• 15-30 Startups graduate through the first cohort.
• At least 1+ live mentor sessions per team
• Successful demo day
• Post-cohort survey

TEAM

MAYRA CEJA https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayraceja/

• 10+ years of experience in startups and VC investing
• Podcast with guests like Tim Draper and Mike Novogratz
• Speaker at Deloitte’s Blockchain Conference, CIS, World Digital Assets Summit, SXSW Consensys, Crypto Beadles, Blockchain Economic Fore, Coindesk/Consensus.
• Taught over 1,000 startups, Mentor at 500 Startups and Alchemist Accelerator,
• Princeton AB, Wharton MBA

AUDREY CHAING https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreychaing/

• Founded MIT Applied Blockchain Series as lead instructor

• Speaker at conferences including OneWorld Blockchain at Davos, CryptoHQ, MIT AI Conference, LendIt/BlockFin, Google IWD

• Recognized as one of 200 global thought leaders in blockchain industry

• Contributor to Cypherpunk Women (https://citapress.org/#books/cypherpunk-women/web)

• BSc Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. Wharton MBA

BUDGET:

• Staff-100k
• Marketing/ Website/Docs/Admin 20k