[Non-Constitutional] Pilot Phase: Arbitrum Venture Initiative

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@jengajojo

Thank you for this interesting initaitve @aminiman

General feedback:

• While established partners provide stability, a balanced approach that includes support for lesser-known but promising entities would be beneficial in preventing over-centralization & encouraging diverse contributions
• Some strategies to integrate & support existing developers, would go a long way to ensure that this initiative complements rather than competes with the current ecosystem

@jengajojo, I think these are great question on the Infinite Launchpad thread.
I’m up to speed on some of the discussion there and am sure @aminiman will give great responses.

Still thought to connect the dots with what we’ve been discussing in the AVI topic.
Part of the the point of the market consultation in this pilot proposal is to be able to provide all the program managers with the same well researched and up to date information of what already exists as opportunities in the Aribitrum ecosystem and come up with guidance on what would be important strategically for the DAO.

Additionally there is already a discussion around aligning all impact metrics so the various programs can have benchmarkable with each other results. We’ve also been including in that thinking the accelerators that will come from the ThankArb RFP programs as well.

@jengajojo

• Are there any plans to address the risk of market saturation with similar projects? are there any strategies are in place to differentiate & prioritize unique high impact innovations?
• Is this a one time ask or is there a roadmap for sustaining this initiative in the future?

These are also great points which AVI is meant to be able to offer support over in the future. And in the mean time I know that the Betting on Builders group have put in quite a bit of thought into that.

@cp0x

I’d like you to consider a couple more points in your future report:

1. Consider the possibility of not determining all promising venture operations yourself, but delegating this to professional VC (how we do with RWA)
2. Analyze all investments taking into account the Bull/Bear market.

@cp0x thank you for engaging with this topic across the board for several months now!
Both considerations you’re raising are embedded in the plan here.

@Michigan_Blockchain

really appreciate the clarification here

I wish I did a better job at visualising a lot of this originally. Thank you for engaging and actually I’ve been trying reach you guys. Part of the AVI scope is related to enabling specific to Arbitrum talent and project pipelines via supporting university incubators. We’ve already looked into some institutional partnerships with tier one schools in the UK and it’s something we want to work on during GovHack. Would you be up for a call with me on that topic (DMd here)?