Eden Creators Business Plan

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Nov 25, 2022 4:39 PM

Overview

Should it be consolidated into business plan for Eden Creators and/or FractalJoy?

Should I choose one to focus on for a business funding request or both?

Or maybe Eden Creators focuses more on services like video production or more on existing relationships with EOS based communities? Whereas FractalJoy focuses more on the hosting of events and templates and starting new relationships? Not sure…

Eden Creators Media Production

Producing videos, clips, and social media posts
NFT Sales

FractalJoy

Hosting Services
Consulting Services
Video production
Social Media Growth
Templates

Public goods funding

Eden Fractal Growth

Value Propositions of Eden

Other Public Goods

Consider including parts from Eden Creates Public Goods and How Eden Creators Provide Public Goods for the EOS Community and Eden Creates Public Goods

Should it be focused on Value Propositions of Eden, Eden Creators, Eden Fractal, and/or FractalJoy?

Maybe there should be several business plans with many synced parts but different business plans for each?

Idk if it makes sense for Eden Fractal or Eden to have a business plan because they’re more so communities, whereas Eden Creators and FractalJoy can be businesses with business plans

Unparalleled Engagement

Eden (and other communities that cooperate fractally) provides extremely high engagement. Super talented builders, creators, and entrepreneurs collaborate on video calls. For several hours. Every week. For six months. Everyone shows up on camera and speaks. That is a far higher level of engagement than most other forms of meetings.

For example, in most twitter spaces or discord chats, it is only audio and most people only listen. In most social media, it is only text or video asynchronously. In most podcast, it is a few people speaking and the large majority listening.

Fractal events provide a unique combination of high engagement:

Synchronous
Video Calls
Every Week
For Many Months
Everyone speaks
Everyone is on camera

Way different than twitter followers, etc

It’s about the quality and the depth of the engagement. And who is engaging. And for how long, and why, and how, etc

Add part of response to CAC about unprecedented collaboration, testament to success so far.

Eden Fractal is perhaps the largest and most engaging video meeting in EOS and web3. Between 12-25 participants every week for hours for six months.

Production Processes (Eden Creators Wiki / DAMS / Cedia)

Video Production Plan:

Create videos myself on a volunteer basis for coming weeks. Raise some funding from pomelo and publish posts widely. Grow audience with YouTube channel and provide a lot of value to the EOS Community.

Start recording all videos to zoom cloud with multiple angles. Find and habituate a good workflow for this.

Encourage, educate, and inspire participants to share their screen and show what they’re working on in their browser

Then at some point soon ask the ENF for funding for both Eden Creators and Eden Fractal. For example:

Hi Yves/Zack/Lovejoy/ENF/grant framework/pomelo/helios, etc,

Requested:

3 month contract

Eden Creators

$__k for my time doing x

$__k for video editor (i should have relationship with video editor prior to asking this)

Eden Fractal

$___k for 1k per week to participants via pomelo kind of infrastructure

Just examples. Numbers could be way different

Need to find good, talented, and inspired video editor who cares and wants to help

Hypothetically, a video editor could work 10 hrs per week for 25 dollars per hour to receive 250 per week. During that 10 hours they could edit many videos from Eden Fractal. Also Town Hall. So you could do a 12 week trial for only like 3000 dollars. And during that they could create like 10 great video clips each week. Videos won’t take long because we already have the timestamps and we’ll just ask them what videos we want them to create. And I’ll write instruction in advance (ie use judgement to cut at just the right time- put care into this - no wasted seconds…. Fix the zoom video recording when screensharing to look like this…. Fix the size of the overall zoom recording on canvas to look like this, etc.

So 10 great videos clips per week over 12 weeks. That’s 120 great videos.

The videos will be much higher quality when:

We record multiple camera angles with zoom

A video editor can pick whichever angle looks better

Everyone is encouraged to show their work

This is already very simple with zoom

There is real monetary incentive to do better work

The fractally consensus mechanism is design for real value to be earned by helping the community, but this has not yet happened because of the regulatory environment and because it’s generally quite young. After eight months it feels normal that there’s no payment, but that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.
People will be much more incentivized and motivated to give great presentations where there is an opportunity to earn a considerable amount more money by doing more work.
People will also be more motivated when they know they are on video with Eden Creator video production studio who is willing to make videos
$1k per week is a good next step

Revenue Models

NFT Sales

Sell NFTs for each video that we make

Potentially split profit between eden creators, producer, and presenter…

More details at NFT?

Search bear- i think there are more notes there

Video Production Services

Enable anyone to request that there video is edited for a fee. Maybe make a simple bot process like the bees do to request this. Eden Creators can choose the 5-10 videos that we want to produce each week (and/or that the ENF or whatever other client wants us to produce each work). Then any additional videos can be requested and paid by community members.

Eden Creators plays a key role by making the pitch to the ENF, paying editor, hosting meetings, distribution on channel and social media, etc. So Eden Creators can offer the services and earn a portion of each edited video payment.

We can also do partnerships with EOS bees for promotion, etc

I explain to the ENF (or other potential funding partners) that this is an excellent kind of marketing and promotion for the community.

In example above, ENF pays $28k and gets:

120 awesome and well produced videos from many great creators
Funding creators and public goods in ecosystem, similar to pomelo
A flourishing and exciting event with networking, inspiration, education, etc

How we’ll create value for EOS

Explain what I’d do for ___/15k

All of these can include value adds can include links and more description to better show it

Hire, manage, pay, and work with video editor(s)
Continue to host events

Improve hosting game

Cool ambient music
Sound effects
Continued development of Cagendas
Continued development EOS fractal tools
More promotion

Coordination and creative direction

ie I’ll choose great videos
work with editors and community on content

Website curation
Promotion on Creator Talk
Continue to launch ideas and write articles.

Host special events, such as ideathons

Similar to how ENF partnered with Helios for the first ideathon, we could do a similar thing

The prize could be much smaller

Our unique value adds would be:

Video production

We can produce videos for each pitch with learning from Helios. There were many things that could be improved from the first ideathon to make better videos, including:

timestamps
video clips for each video

We can produce great clips for each video
We can also help promote the ideas on twitter, etc

visual canvas
video length
music and production value

was quite good but can be better

overall entertainment. The ideathon was awesome, but compare it to the televised versions of shark tank, etc. We can do it with dynamic camera angles, exciting music, short form episodes, clips, on a more recurring basis, showing off the unique powers of EOS and Eden and fractal cooperation, etc

Pioneering decentralized governance with Eden+Fractal
We can do it live and iterate quickly.

For example, we can do it on a monthly basis for $1k or $10k of total prizes. Rather than a 6 month process for 125k. We can iterate with and try out many different processes.
Then we can also document our work so far and show how other communities can repeat this

Other special events could include:

parties with Alien Worlds and WAX community,
fractal dj,
gaming events,
music events
livestreams
concerts
consensus games
coopetitions
etc

We could show the sponsorship from EOS/ENF during the video, like how Felix suggested in season 3 of pomelo. We can speak about it and also display logos during the livestreams

Eden Creators partnership can also include partnership and projects with Dans Party, Playtubas Global, EOS Sages, etc

Pioneering DAMS

Another benefit of this plan is that it sets the stage for many other DAMS and media projects, including:

Dans Party
Playtubas Global
EOS Sages
Ho Bina
Playtubas
Etc

Once we have funding for Eden Creators and successfully show the power of DAMS, Eden Creators will have proven the use case and built many of the systems to launch video editing service with music livestreams for dans party, playtubas global, etc.

This was one of my original goals in working with EOS and now there is an immediate path to actualizing it with Eden Creators. When Eden Creators has proven success and connections with video editors, funders, reputation, etc.. then we can use those same processes and connection for dans party and other creative projects.

Eden Creators shows the power of DAMS

It’s not a fully DAMS though- there is a centralized role played by Eden Creators

Eventually DAMS can be far more decentralized and autonomous.

The community can fund media creators with the fractally consensus mechanism and delegates can make creative decisions. This is already true to some extent, but can become much more true. Right now there is not much monetary incentive to be able to compensate media creators and the community is just learning to make decisions for itself.

The delegates can increasingly make more creative decisions but it doesn’t have much capacity for this now will take a while before the community learns to walk and run with many decisions. My plan in the note about DAMS + Cagendas to start with one video per week is a good plan, but it might take some weeks to be ready for both Eden Fractal and Eden Creators. That is one creative decision per week from the Eden Fractal and one video produced from me per week, which we’ll have sufficient capacity in the coming weeks. Start small and then scale it up gradually.

Right now, the community needs some support. It needs some centralized entity to help fund media creators and make most creative decisions related to video creation. Eden Creators can fill this role and provide this for the community.

Where to find video editor?

EOS Community?

Web3 community?

Any film maker creator DAOs out there?

Something like Creator Now?

Fiverr?

Friend of friend?

CAC already said he is interested in helping with video editing

Willo, Etimfon, Lennie also expressed interest. Not sure if they were just responding to timestamps or also video production

Creative Projects to Propose with Cignals

More details at

Eden Creators Business Plan - Review, refine, and execute this short-medium term plan for Eden Creators - Raising funding from the ENF - hiring video editors - funding Eden Fractal participants - Eden Creators shows the power of DAMS - Sets the stage for playtubas global and dans party and much more

Upgrades

Consider - part of the funding from ENF etc can also be used to invest in my studio,

For example:

New iPad

enabling x, y, z, etc

Little projector

Projector screen above monitors

Better monitor quality

Can get great graphics monitor with better brightness and colors than current monitor. Could also get an ultrawide monitor. Then use current monitors in different locations in the studio

Hard drive space

NAS 100 TB

New version of Ableton, resolume, etc.
Obviously only spend when it makes sense. The point here is that there are many things that I’ve wanted to invest in the studio that would greatly help produce and create better shows. That would provide benefit to the EOS network and eden creators. Previously I wasn’t thinking specifically about funding these improvements with the funding, but it could make a lot of sense and be super helpful.

Contract Request

Consider—I think it makes sense to ask for a six month contract with a payment of $50,000. Half of it would be for weekly rewards at the Fractal event, and half of it would be for edencreators and edencreators initiatives, making videos and Contant, and posting events and so forth.

Update- ask for 100k. 26 to EF, and 74 to Eden Creators. Or maybe 250k…?

First, I think it makes sense to reach out to Martin to ask if it would be possible for Pomelo to help with this being that people already have their payment, KEYC and infrastructure there already.

This doesn’t need to be something that I coordinate with the entire group meet at the Ethan Fractal meetings, I can just go ahead and start preparing the presentation and asking for funding for both the Fractal event, participants, and also for edencreators.

I can ask for both at the same time

And I should ask her about the same time.

End it makes sense to ask for six months rather than three months because then we can always bargain down to three months everyone but it’s good to start with six months

Similar to how .gems and Stephane and Martin have contract

Remember - YouTube now Automatically provides a transcript for each video. It’s veiwable on mobile when you click on description . How about desktop? Should I copy paste this anywhere?

There could be a comparable business page with businesses, like Rhett and link, Colin and Sameer, Bankless, the defiant… And many more or several more perhaps, and that could be helpful way to frame it. These are successful, creative businesses.

Add more ideas about the NFT sales to the business plan. This could be a very big role and is in many ways, most natural way to do these cells and grow the business.

Probably make a presentation and show how providing more funding to the participants would incentivize better video quality because people would make better presentations to be able to earn more money

Also, I should include the plan to make tutorial videos. I’ll make tutorial videos about how to use zoom screen, sharing, and share screen with my set up and present to show your work, and that combine with the monetary incentive plus the community enjoyment, can be very helpful. And also about how this is pioneering away from other communities to use the same processes as well. Such as EOS sages playtubas global etc

ENF Grant Framework

More details at

At 11 minutes in this interview with Aaron Cox from Gray mass, Zach talks about how every grant from the enf is milestone based . So consider that it might be a good idea to have some ideas or suggestions for milestones in the grant application. For example, I could have milestones like the amount of participants at the events, and the amount of videos created, and the amount of views and different things like that. Or perhaps monthly or something like that. Like I’m not really sure if the contract with ES nation is mile stone based, I think it’s probably just on a monthly basis, so perhaps that is not correct how Zack stated for all situations. I’m not really sure if measuring by any specific metric like participants or viewers or things like that are a great way to do this because of good hearts, law law, and similar things and there’s a lot of subjective value that isn’t really summarize well an objective metrics. But some of them to help because I’m extent and I should just be prepared to think about this and think about an advance whether we want to go with a timer schedule or if there are specific milestones that we should suggest first, or if we should just here with the people at the ENF things first, just consider it either way.

https://youtu.be/OQGLyISQZPs

Helios Incubator

Consider- it might be good to apply to Helios incubator with this business plan

Add this to a new page in notion

EdenCreators.com/business

EdenCreators.com/plan

Mark Stair - Tipit - Accounting App for EOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Xa0YtVsFc&t=280s

Ideathons

During the EOS Fireside Chat on November 23rd, Chris Barnes provides a review of the ideathon and said that instructions coming soon for other people to start more ideathons (19:06).