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- Adventure #26 - Little Atlas
GM gm ladies and gentlemen
4-minute read, 1 innovative business.
But first - I announced the start of my Twitter spaces ft EmanSet a reminder here
Today's plan👇
Use this framework to look into a business:(1) The company (/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 Little Atlas
The company (/product)
Little Atlas is on a mission to bring digital communities together in the real world.
^ Doing so through their real-world community platform.
They've created a beautiful interactive map where NFT holders can see the location of other holders, organize events and more.
The Chimpers community is one of the early adopters.
Almost 400 @ChimpersNFT on the Community Map, meet ups are brewing, and we are so excited!!! 🌏🔥✨
app.littleatlas.xyz/c/chimpers
— Insight (@NFT1nsight)
10:14 PM • Jan 26, 2023
The two teams met for the first time at a conference in the US. Here's what Nick said about the Chimpers team
The Chimpers team is one of the most genuine, nice, and honest teams that we've ever met in web3. It's been really awesome working with them
Since then, the Little Atlas team have onboarded yet another partner - Footium.They got more coming but I can't tell you 🤐
We're beyond thrilled to announce our second launch partner, @Footium! ⚽️
If you hold a Club NFT, make sure you get on the map!
👀 find nearby holders
📍 throw local meet-ups
🍻 connect with other holders!— Little Atlas (@littleatlas_xyz)
7:08 PM • Jan 25, 2023
Beside that, the Little Atlas team has built degen.events - a map showing web3 events. You can even buy the tickets (if the event is paid)
For example, ^ here are some events happening in London.
Creating your event is ded simple. This took me 2 minutes to mock up
The idea happened because of Twitter - the team published a Notion page of events. It was their most engaged tweet so they built on that,
It reminds me of how NFTUK started, cc Mila
If you are in London and interested into being part of a IRL NFT meet-ups comment below. I’ll add you to the list / group.
— MILA 🐳 (@milalolli)
11:10 AM • Oct 25, 2021
^ Which is also where my web3 journey properly started
You know what else is cool? I met Nick more than a year ago. Their initial idea was to sell land plots with people's PFPs
We have deployed a fix to our contract - which was slowing down minting. Minting is fully functional once again!
London's starting to look busy ;)
— Little Atlas (@littleatlas_xyz)
12:07 AM • Mar 6, 2022
^ March 2022!! They've certainly come a long way and I'm excited to see more!
The founding team
Nick is a very cool fella, one of these guys that you instantly connect with. He's been to over 40 hackatons and has always been interested in building products
➙ Intern at Amazon (fixed problems of product duplications)➙ Intern at GitHub (ran the 1st student hackathon & built GitHub classroom assistant)➙ Spent over 4 yrs at Improbable (building game dev hosting services).
➙ Interned at EY➙ Senior software engineer at Youtube➙ Senior software engineer at Google (and Google's Incubator- Area 120)
Funding and Hiring
A) FundingThe team is backed by Balaji and a few other investors. They will be raising a new round soon so do keep an eye.
If you want me to intro you to their team, just DM me. Though they're very approachable so you won't struggle.
How did the Little Atlas team secure a legend like Balaji??Nick replied to a tweet of Balaji and Balaji's team reached out. Wild huh!
I asked Nick for advice on Fundraising + his approach. Here's what he said:
Find people who are genuinely interested in what you're building
Don't be a salesman, be genuine
When pitching, be open and honest (real investors can sniff the BS)
Know your business really really well
Have a conversation, don't think of it as a pitch
Should I add more such insights?? feedback pls
B) HiringCurrently, they're looking for a Senior Engineer.
^ A web3 native who's passionate about NFT communities, events etc. More roles will be open after the fundraise, follow them on Twitter to stay updated
Why this business excites me
I love community-focused products. And the teams that build such always care deeply.
The Little Atlas team certainly is one like that, great people!
They're so early in the journey and already have so much traction. I'm sure the team has only scratched the surface too.
In fact, I'll make a prediction
Little Atlas will be used by Blue Chip communities by Q2 of 2024
- Mitko, web3adv
Favourite meme of the week
Okay, I got two - one relevant for this week and one evergreen
It’s big brain time 🧠
— alexjm 🍿 (@alexjmingolla)
1:40 AM • Jan 28, 2023
How NFT mfs grew up:
— MinisterOfNFTs 🔮 (@MinisterOfNFTs)
3:33 PM • Jan 27, 2023
Defo need more memes in my life though. Freeing up headspace soon
Quick market thoughts
Lots has happened but this is a pretty long issue already so will keep it short and won't add my commentary
1/ Kevin Rose phished2/ Gordon Goner will take a leave of absence from Yuga3/ Azuki's twitter compromised4/ Doodles 2 will be on Flow5/ Influencer Barkmeta exposed (lots of drama)6/ Open editions meta goes brrrr (1.4k ETH in 24hrs)7/ Paul requests a refund for his Otherside NFTs
Speaking about, peep this conspiracy theory from him. He said it's a shitpost but the replies are pretty funny anyway hahah! Never change Paul!!🚀
Low key conspiracy: Kevin Rose staged the hack as a PR stunt to push a16z-backed valuations higher.
And it just so happens that @a16z invested $50M in Kevin and his team a few months back.
— Paul | Top Dog Studios (@darkp0rt)
11:26 AM • Jan 27, 2023
My on-chain activity
Bought and set my ENS domain but that's about it.
You remember how I sold checks for $270? It's now over $1000 hahahah
Offchain tho, I attended the Demoday by buildspace. Met Zeshan, a good friend of mine and a few other builders.
Speaking of Zeshan, I got some wisdom from him that I'll share with you next time!
Hustler's Ambition
A section dedicated to business frameworks/ideas/tools
Two on getting your business accepted into an accelerator. And one more funny one but very useful about tiktok
Y Combinator has launched startups worth over $600 billion
But they only have a 1.5% acceptance rate
That's 2x harder than Harvard
Here are 11 application videos from successful startups that got in:
— Michael Houck 💡 (@callmehouck)
1:38 PM • Jan 29, 2023
With an acceptance rate lower than Harvard and a list of strict interview rules getting into Alliance may seem impossible
Here I share my experience on @alliancedao application process and a few practical tips for those who go through the interview now
acecreamu.substack.com/p/how-i-applie…— Oleksii Sidorov (@acecreamu)
10:50 AM • Jan 25, 2023
Lotus Cars has the most unhinged TikTok account I've ever seen
But it's actually genius marketing
Here's a breakdown of how they've used meme culture to generate millions of free views every week:
— Tommy Clark (@tclarkmedia)
4:04 PM • Jan 25, 2023
That is it for this week! The longest issue so far. And I really tried to keep it short.
There's just so much cool stuff to write about.
Anyway, til next Sunday👋- Mitko
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