[quote=“cryptodad, post:1, topic:5844”] How can bDAO effectively capture the value our community generates?
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I’ve talked around this topic in Discord in the past, months ago now, but folks seem to think I’m howling at the moon.
I suggest there are two ways to help raise value stemming from bDAO.
First is to train folk in grant searching in partner DAOs. This could originate in DAOlationships, who have a mandate to go out to partner DAOs in any case.
I don’t believe this is necessarily
a specialist skill, although it could have layers, but it’s one that every bDAO guild needs.
This topic was first discussed in research guild, who are naturally inclined towards the new, because research typically generates constructive action off the back of findings.
Second, every bDAO proposal needs to have an assessment of future economic value embedded in it.
Yes, it’s a Web 2 discipline, but it’s actually important to look at where revenue was generated, and do more of that, and less of the stuff where there is a negative effect on Treasury.
The GC needs to ask for this seasonally from guilds and projects, perhaps including education on how to do this if guilds and projects don’t have the local skills to do this.
Cross pollination and mentoring from other guilds should be entirely possible. Net positive guilds and projects have a social responsibility to those who need more of a helping hand.
Having arrived at these conclusions, and signally failed to give them any impact, I wondered what best I might do next.
I went back to look at onboarding, where ChatGPT can have a transformative effect on talent arriving in any DAO.
Idea matching, which this post is asking for, requires an individual to be able to match their ideas, projects, background, values with the group they join and the group collective values, projects, products and backgrounds.
That level of complexity is why I see ChatGPT as being a step forward for onboarding.
In this case there are two clear external role asks bDAO can make, with effective onboarding, to bring in suitable talent. And probably others based on replies from other folk here.
- Grant Hunter
- Proposal Writer Mentor
I also suggest the two can be connected. A Grant Hunter surfs a selection of partner DAOs for grants - Discord sets a natural limit of 100 - and maintains a discussion status in an internally maintained table. Various bDAO attempts have been made at such tables, and maybe Ops Guild need to step in and provide a centralised resource for this.
And then the PWM can advise on what type of proposal stands the best chance of success given the partner DAO culture. I wrote a proposal for dYdX for bDAO, which I felt was workable, but probably tried to deliver too much value, and therefore missed the point from the dYdX culture perspective.
@feems and @links will be aware of this.
I see these options as possible solutions to the issue @cryptodad is raising.
In my view of future ideation in DAOs, an ideas bank is a central resource, also available guild by guild, such that ideas are reviewed regularly, and at least seasonally by role holders. I suggest the idea base is issued periodically for voting to guild members. Things change, and what didn’t work last season might well be viable this season. Advocacy for ideas should be encouraged, but I suggest ideas are actually centrally important to the health and future of any DAO. Any guild with a static or stagnant ideas pool needs to have fresh talent, I suggest. These are all things the GC can ask for, and I believe bDAO would benefit from it.
If I seem like I’m ranting to some, I apologise, but as someone who has lots of ideas, and can also suggest doable ways to resource them, it gets a little frustrating at times. My language is direct about this because I believe it’s a critical need to be addressed.
And I believe ideation is such an important aspect for any DAO, because I don’t see ideation underpinned in other DAOs I visit.
To put it another way, this comment isn’t a proposal, but I believe the ideas in it do carry value, if acted on. Ideation could even be a product Bankless offer to other DAOs.
Final final point on this. This is what I believe the path is for ideas.
Ideas 
Team Proposal Project Product Data Analytics Strategy
Better projects stem from better ideas. We’ve all seen dumb projects get dumb investment, the biggest irony. Can we pivot where needed?
Isn’t is worth investing in better projects from day 1, in looking for better ideas?
Nuff said. Over to you guys.