Catalyst Boost Camp - 1 - Introduction
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Introduction
Catalyst Boost Camp is a training initiative offered to Fund 2 to 5 Cohort by entreprenerdy in partnership with Project Catalyst.
9 standard Bootcamp sessions
There are 9 standard Bootcamp sessions that cover:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Purpose
- 3 Resources
- 4 Idea
- Objectives
- Model
- Tasks
- Forecast
- Pitch/presentation.
My involvement
In respect of my involvement …
- I specified my idea / concept description as The Distributed Autonomous Organisation of Quality Assurance. taken from a longstanding tagline for QA-DAO.
- My reasons for joining are To learn how to develop tools for distributed entrepreneurs.
- The progress in 6 months I envisaged is A distributed governance quality assurance consultancy
- and Need for Mentoring is designing entrepreneurship training and toolkits. Budgeting..
My original Catalyst proposal
My original Catalyst proposal was …
- in Fund 5.
- My development stage is I’ve created working prototypes.
- The Ambitions for project are I would like to hire a team / employees.
- I am uncertain when I will raise money nor am I sure if I need further funding. As at present this is subject to the outcome of Catalyst Fund 6 proposals such as Distributed Auditability and Open-Source Training.
- I do have working prototypes related to documentation such as this Quality Assurance DAO website, a QA-DAO Gitbook and the Fund 5 Developer Ecosystem GitHub repository.
Notes
A large part of the introduction drew upon material published in The Entrepreneurship Handbook by Yngve Dahle.
The “2 - How much theory do you need ?” section referenced the paper The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research, 2000, Shane & Venkataraman as 1) establishing entrepreneurship as a field of research and 2) focusing on the activities of entrepreneurship rather than seeking to identify who is an entrepreneur.
“In contrast to previous research, we define the field of entrepreneurship as the scholarly examination of how, by whom, and with what effects opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated, and exploited. “ -(Venkataraman, 1997).
In a distributed context the translation of such a process of discovery may be familiar from recent “problem-sensing” exercises. Where the individual entrepreneur is diminished further in favour of iterative activities that seek opportunities and evaluate them according to the culture of a group or circle.
Further on opportunity is presented in two aspects:
- A positive motivation to take advantage of a good opportunity that defines an “opportunity entrepreneur”.
- and a negative motivation to escape a lack of opportunity that defines a “necessity entrepreneur”.
A key difference here is the level of risk and/or the opportunity cost involved. Arguely a good opportunity has a low opportunity cost that does not impact an “opportunity entrepreneur”. Perhaps because they have access to a wider range of implicit and explicit cost options - more to play with. Whilst the “necessity entrepreneur” must weigh a limited opportunity cost equation - a necessary choice.
Town Hall Slides
GitHub Issue
A GitHub Issue tracks this activity here