Adventure #36 - Continuum.xyz

Gm team and happy Easter. Here’s a rabbit

Quick announcement: I’m introducing an addition to the newsletter 👇️ 

Founder’s Adventures will be a short interview in written form.
Here’s how you’ll benefit:

• learn from experienced founders

• get new strategies for your own business

• learn from their mistakes

So, what do you wanna learn about?
Let me know and I’ll get it for you!

Here is a short questionnaire. It’ll take you 1 minute to fill out

Anyway, today’s plan:

Use this framework to look into a business:
(1) The product
(2) The founding team
(3) Funding and Hiring
(4) Why the business excites me

Current events + business talk
(5) Meme + NFT Market
(6) Hustler's ambition

Disclaimer: None of this is sponsored, I choose what to write about. This is not financial advice either!

Today is dedicated to Continuum!

The Product

(i) problem

Alternative education can be inaccessible and/or expensive.

Learning by yourself gets lonely. There’s also no accountability.

(ii) solution and demo

Here’s where Continuum comes in - a free, learn-to-earn social network for education.

Here’s what their team says

Here’s how I see it - a platform where you can take courses and earn crypto rewards (GEMs).

These gems would be convertible to $UUM (their upcoming erc20 token).

It’ll give you voting rights, meaning that you (as a participant) can take part in shaping the product, as well as access to premium content.

What I really like is their focus on the web3 ethos.
Check this

I spoke with the Continuum team and can guarantee that many exciting things are coming. I can’t share but they will soon enough.

A bit about the app:
It runs smoothly and is simple to operate.
Here are only some of the courses you can take

I did the course on Brand Voice and was pretty cool.
Levelled up a bunch and got the gems.

The next course I’ll be taking is about Polygon zkEVM.

Besides the courses, there is a “tiktok-style” short-form content.
It’s educational but also fun.

Some are videos, others are carousel-types.
Good vibes all around!

There’s also a section “Expert Answers” and it’s pretty cool - there’s this expert called “vaundy” who even responded with a video on how to use Python!

I really like that^

(iii) considerations

The only consideration I have is about people gaming the system.

In my 2 years of crypto, I’ve learned that if a system can be exploited for (financial gain) the bad actors will do it.

^ I spoke with the team and they confirmed that precautions are being taken. Love to see it

(iv) how you can benefit

• You can learn about topics in a cool way

• You can create content and courses

• You can meet other knowledge-hungry individuals

But also, there will be a token (public knowledge).
We don’t know when or how it’ll happen but being involved will likely increase your chance of getting it 👍️ 

Besides all these, you can apply to be an ambassador

The founding team

Jason Curry: Founder and CEO (LinkedIn)

➙ founded an app dev studio, scaled it to a team of 100+ & later exited
➙ has shipped successful projects for companies like Nike, Apple, Mail Chimp
➙ Fellow at Gitcoin KERNEL0x KB5

Brian Wong Jun Han: Co-founder and Chief of Staff (LinkedIn)

➙ fellow newsletter writer
➙ experience in managing communities, social media, & talent m-ment
➙ a VC scout for two funds

Zhang Ruiyang: Co-founder and CTO (LinkedIn)

➙ 4 yrs of exp of working in DeFi
➙ M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science

Funding and Hiring

A) Funding - yes

Continuum raised $1.5m in a pre-seed round in February of 2022.

Investors include: Shima Capital, GSR Ventures, Balaji, and others.

Now.. I’m not a fundraising expert but that feels like a healthy pre-seed so investors must really like the idea & team!!

For reference, below are some other pre-seed rounds:

• Coinbase - $600k

• Consensys - $500k

B) Hiring - not currently

Why this business excites me

Making education fun + doing it in a web3 way??
Love to see it

Will leave you with their mission👇️ 

Favourite meme of the week

Stolen from the boys at Doodhwala

Also, last week I asked you what your favourite animal is.
The one reply was a cat so here’s one for hehe

Quick market things

1/ Fifa making moves

2/ Yuga x Gucci

3/ ENS subdomains. This is really cool cause brands can start giving away subdomains.

For example, I can give Brian a brian.web3adv.eth domain if he wishes.

Hello Brian, I see you 👋 

4/ A cool thread about VCs starting incubators

My on-chain activity

Nothing on mainnet but I’ve been getting Goerli eth and bridging to scroll.
Will be doing more over the next few weeks I hope

Hustler's Ambition

A section dedicated to business frameworks/ideas/tools

Some guerilla marketing for ya 😅 

And the screenshot below is a template you can use to network effectively on LinkedIn. Shoutout Trayan H for this legendary comment

See you next Sunday👋
- Mitko