1000 DAYS OF STEEM : The Steem Entrepreneurs Program
The last few days we have been talking about curation and communities.
These are both critical to the strong future growth of Steem.
What is also most important is innovation, and initiative, and inspiration.
We want people with new ideas to build on Steem.
The Steem Entrepreneurs Program
This is another new experimental program to help us find and support people with great ideas for new projects and services on Steem.
Initially at least this program will only be operating at the micro scale.
The resources available at this stage are limited to upvotes from @steemcurator01 (10M SP) and @steemcurator02 (4M SP) and publicity through @steemitblog posts.
So this program will not be for funding any large scale coding or development work.
Rather this program will be looking to support people with ideas for developing projects and services using the facilities already available on the Steem blockchain, or that only require modest amounts of coding work.
Examples might include the development of loan services, or job finding services, or ways of using STEEM for buying and selling, or even, when travel is more open, perhaps a SteemBnB service...
We are looking for people to come forward with ideas that could benefit from a little help from us to get off the ground.
This program is quite experimental so we are not sure how it will evolve.
As always we are open to ideas and suggestions - but remember we only have the limited resources of upvotes and publicity available at this stage.
How To Apply
If anyone has an idea they would like to put forward for support we invite them to make a 'pitch post' and drop the link in a comment below.
The post at a minimum should include...
a succinct outline of the idea
details of who would be involved in the project
who the intended audience is
how the project is to be set up and developed
what resources are needed to get the project up and running
how the project will be marketed
how progress and success will be monitored and measured
what the plan is to make the project/service sustainable
If a project looks viable, and it gets a good reaction from the community, then we will look at how we can support it through progressive upvotes on progress posts, and through our promotion.
Pitch posts can be in any language, although they will likely get wider community support if an English translation is included as well.
The program will initially be open for submissions until October 7th.
This Steem Entrepreneurs Program is quite experimental.
We hope it can help us build great things on Steem.
We offer it to the community and await your feedback.
Thank you,
The Steemit Team
Notes from the Community...
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@rishabh99946 is doing a great job maintaining a list of all the current contests around the blockchain.
If you know of any contests not on his list, add a comment to his latest post...
Contest Collector Contest
If you enjoy entering contests on Steem, check out this new contest from @njaywan.
There is a 15 STEEM prize pool for the best 'super contestant'...
SPUD Prize Increase for October 1st
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Organizer @kiwiscanfly has just announced the latest expansion of the prize pool. There is now over 14K SP of delegations and over $100 in upvotes...
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The rewards from this post go to support the work of @fundacorazon and @littledisciples both in Venezuela.
Very exciting and great news for steemian!
All the programs introduced supporting every layer of the community members and I think Steem Community is the luckiest community living on the blockchain world right now if not the world. 💓🚀🤩
I am very happy to hear about The Steem Entrepreneurs Program. Steem needs more developers to develop interesting things on it.
in all the posts i see you on the top :p Looks like you are ultra active @cryptoKannon ❤️ 💖
Indeed Steem Community is the luckiest community because of these creative minds and hard-working steemit team
The Steem Entrepreneurs Program is a great initiative. The support from @steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02 will really help us to develop and manage projects & services using the Steem blockchain. I have just started working on #SCM as a small initiative, I already have prepared a high-level project plan document on which I was thinking to work one by one.
I will submit my 'pitch post' on or before 07th October with complete details in a post and will add the link here.
Thank you for providing this opportunity.
would love to see your plan dont forget to mention me there aswell. I have made One aswell but I was confused that is it On or we need to publish on 7th .
Also i saw you are working Good as a Country Representative of India :) Keep it up.
Looking forward to seeing your pitch post.
Thank you
The Steemit Team
https://steemit.com/hive-192037/@neerajkr03/the-steem-entrepreneurs-program-whatsapp-notification-project-proposal
Hmmmmmm this is a great idea. I would love to set up an Online prepaid credits program wherein I will sell Telecommunications Network prepaid top-ups in 50 Php - 100 Php denominations ($1-$2.00). Payment would be in SBD or Steem. Though this is already happening to us our country already but not yet as proliferated as this. I will create a business model for this and will be submitted on or before October 7, 2020.
such a great idea as you said its already happening Is it steem based ? looks like steemit could make International Telecommunication topup Mobile balance through steem and sbd.
Yes, steem-based. We actually do it all the time. It is indicated in the memo that it is for the payment of prepaid credits. But it is not just a regular basis. But at this point, I will proliferate it as a business that is going on here in the Steem blockchain.
Cool :)
That sounds very interesting. Look forward to reading your plan.
The Steemit Team
I am very happy to hear about The Steem Entrepreneurs Program. Steem needs more developers to develop interesting things on it.
Yes agreed. We hope this will encourage more people to start developing projects.
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity @steemitblog. Am really looking forward to seeing this new project idea.
Here is my entry to the project;
https://steemit.com/hive-167622/@njiatanga/my-pitch-post-for-the-trading-of-steem-in-zuumpay-global-financial-services
Greetings friend @steemitblog , I think this initiative is great, I have been moving to make flannels with the Steemit logo in my area of Venezuela, as presented by my friend @sultan-aceh in Indonesia, in order to generate publicity at first sight.
I am glad to know that they are busy looking for ideas and methods to make our community grow, especially those who show interest in the growth of the platform.
Successes.
That will be good. What price would they be to have them printed in Venezuela?
Greetings friend @steemcurator01, this week I finish the budget, at first I plan to buy cold paint and 5 t-shirts to start dressing the team @criollitos
The white flannels are at 3 dollars "each", the simplest ones, the paintings are the ones that I have not been able to get because the businesses are closed, however, a friend is checking with one of her suppliers.
This week I will be finalizing the budget, even the first printing model, since it is a week of flexibility.
I have been waiting for such an update for a long time and I hope we can reach a better stage.
There are people who want to work with a video sharing platform ? Please someone take this initiative
Of course video sharing can be a great initiative through which communication between all of us will be better. In the meantime we can see that the new steemians is not commenting. New steemians will also be able to comment on them once video sharing is introduced.
That would be good.
What would be the features of your ideal video platform?
There are many talents around us that cannot be expressed through blog posts, there are many that can only be expressed through videos. If someone captures a video of a beautiful moment and just wants to show it to everyone, then a video sharing platform is definitely needed and we can easily find the many talented ones here.
It will have complete freedom of expression.
Any amount of video can be uploaded every day.
There will be many categories, such as: art, cooking, travel,music, tutorials, sports, funny, educational, etc. In all these categories, the user will express his talent.
And one more feature should be that the policy allows an entrepreneur to show his product reviews and buy it if someone likes. It should be based on different countries.
There should be a private option, where a person can save a video of his memorable moment here.
There will be a point system according to the quality of the video and the amount of video. Rewards should be given to those whose points are highest at the end of each month. This will encourage content creators.
It should be made free worldwide so that everyone can express their talent through video
Thanks @steemcurator01, for your attention. There are many more rules and regulations that can be attached here, of course you know, but if there is such a platform, everyone here will be good at their talent.
It's an good idea but to established a video platform, it will take lot of server space and maintenance cost would be high .
That's true
This is just great from @steemitblog, I have a few ideas in how this project could lead to a more qualitative and better steemit. I will upload my entry soon and I hope it gets supported.
Looking forward to reading more about your project.
Although this is an excellent idea, and can help bring to light some interesting projects, I don't think it will be very fruitful for the Steemit Team, particularly because of what you have already stated; no funds, resources or developers. One of the main obstacles that Entrepreneurs often face is this very issue of needing funds, resources or talent for the projects they wish to realize. I would take a different approach, which I have previously talked about on my podcast - The Tino Take - Take 39- under the title Steemitblog and the Self-Promotion Game, which I would now change to Self Promotion Day.
The Steemit Team is in the phase of what I call Proof-of-Power, which means you don't have to concern yourself with attracting upvotes, or fussing over the quality of your posts. You will gain Steem Power no matter what you do! So I see that you are striving to do something constructive with that "Power", other than gain more rewards. Because you are not in a position to fund projects or employ developers, you should shift your focus towards highlighting talent.
At least once or twice a month, maybe more if you like, you should host a Self Promotion Day with the @steemitblog which would allow your followers to showcase their skills, talents and passions, in the comments below the post. I would not recommend separate posts because you would want to encourage everyone to stay in the same place to get to know one another better, and to filter out the Reward Chasers.
On Self Promotion Day, your followers would be invited to write quality comments about themselves and what talents they possess, what skills they have learned and what passions they pursue in life. This is not about a CV style comment, but rather a "Hey, this is me! I'm a poet, engineer, skilled in public relations, amateur photoshop user, crypto day trader, translator, etc.!" This way, the Steemit Team can discover what kind of talent they have in their followers, and others can also explore that talent pool and make connections, build teams and evolve projects. Comments would be curated by the Team, and other members, based on what grabs your attention the most, trending that comment higher up the "charts" thus giving that person more exposure.
Good ideas. We are looking to encourage and enable emerging talent on the blockchain.
People are beginning to come forward with ideas and projects. This is part of that.
We are very much looking to kickstart and seed fund.
It will take time but as more people realize that support is available, hopefully more good ideas, and the right people to progress them, will appear.
While the vote based funding may not be enough for North American / European developers, in other parts of the world it may be more than adequate.
Maybe in The Tino Take you put out a call for project ideas and project talent, and then you could do a segment looking at the best ideas and seeing how they could be moulded into fully viable projects.
Thank you for your input, it always interesting to hear your Take...
The Steemit Team
Very good point! I had not thought about that! Yes, I'll see how I can incorporate your idea into the podcast, as I am always on the look out for what's new or up-and-coming on Steem!
Things are looking up!
STEEM ON!!!
This is an excellent idea. Been waiting for this for almost 4 years to try to brainstorm with entrepreneurs to see if there's a way to make this right with minimal coding.
However the only concern is the volatility of STEEM itself. Although it is generally seen a little more stable on an average price now, though not the best price we all wished, but stability is much more important in terms of usability in business sector.
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Volatility will always be an issue with most cryptocurrencies. SBD presents a more stable option, pegged around $1, for business use.
Have you got a particular project in mind?
In some ways I might have, but due to not enough time to really do coding and planning to make things easy for non-blockchain users I am shelving it aside to scout and see if there's any likeminded projects