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It depends if they are live at an event or virtual but generally either Shahar or myself, with Nataliia in support who has smashed it on outreaching & booking in these meetings so far.
This Q we are training Agents in key locations worldwide to perform initial outreach & leads generation.
This isnāt disclosed on this exec summary as the various initiatives for dApp / dev / VC relations started in Q4 2022. This period has been about finding our feet, training our teams & setting up our systems to handle outreach and support in these areas.
The metrics are very vague, thereās isnāt enough granularity.
What exactly is considered a āleadā? If we can only convert 1/6 leads (VC rate) in getting everyone in a zoom meeting and hear a pitch, thatās concerning. Either that or itās another inaccurate metric. Similarly, 400 bizdev leads seems like an unrealistically large amount too, given that not much has come out in the last few months. Can you give a more detailed breakdown on that? If these are actual leads, then our conversation rate sucks and the strategy isnāt working.
You mentioned just above that Shahar + yourself + Natalia are involved on pitching, yet there was also mention on the TG chat that some of these pitches were āprojectā pitches. So we need a distinction between network wide efforts/initiatives like the incubator (which I assume is what Shahar leads) vs devs pitching VCs where the Agency acted as a facilitator for the meeting to occur.
The dev onboarding metric is still misleading, if you are going to summarize your data into one number then you need to give the number of devs you got to actively build on the network. Thatās the bottom-line that matters. Hereās some feedback I gave at the time about that: Secret University Megathread - #13 by mumuse
As for general scope it seems like there needs to be a re-prioritization. Building a community is only a good idea if there is funding and devs building. Having thousands of people being trained to spread the word around is only good if there are actual things to promote. We need to move on from the idea of building Link Marines 2017 style. Having it is good, but not the priority, and efforts for the former shouldnāt come at the cost of the latter. Hearing it takes multiple months to setup a hackathon is just jarring.
I donāt think the agency is doing a terrible job, but it feels like the approach is to cover a lot of areas without much depth and thatās why metrics look great but the actual results look like nothing happened.
Cheers for the feedback. Would appreciate it you & if everyone this passionate about growth on Secret Network joined our negotiators working group call at 1600 UTC on Wednesdays on Discord. Or suggest a time that fits your schedules for a 2nd working group call.
Please remember that up until Dec 31st we were paying for a bizdev committee that was supposed to handle these tasks. They didnāt, so Agency are picking up the slack here.
Bizdev leads refers to new conversation channels started by Agents including key members of all the 3 orgs. SF / SLabs / Agency. 406 leads generated by Agents could be a new dApp, could be a new media partner or exchange. The important thing is that we are generating leads at events and through our networks.
When it comes to VCās. We were helping Shahar with outreach & introductions to the Secret Launch incubator. We have also been approached by/have approached 11 dApp teams building on Secret to help them develop their pitch and get introductions to investors. This shows that there is a huge demand for capital here on Secret.
To this end we have prepared an overview pitch of all the investment opportunities available on Secret & are beginning to actively pitch that to VCās at events from next week. On the ground, armed with laptops, showing professional investors how they can take a position in our ecosystem & not just giving out merch.
With regard to Secret University they have a plan for tracking dev engagement & course completion. We are here to guide as many devs as possible into the platform to learn how to build on Secret.
Recently weāve also helped dApp teams with their code base in Solidity find talented Secret devs to help them unlock privacy as a service. I personally think this technical recruitment element will grow for us as the features of Secret 2.0 unlock and our developer relations team gets settled in.
Our priorities are dev, dApp & investor onboarding first and foremost. This is our true North.
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Iāve updated the link now.
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