Inside Web3 💎 | Hiring Web3 Talents

My best tips and learning on how to build a successful team for your project 💫

Hello to all,
I hope you are well today :)

On my side, focusing a lot on Mobula with some new features to be expected for the community! We’re also working mainly on our acquisition strategy to create more traffic to the dApp… 🚀

If you want more and more secrets… I’ll be a speaker at the Web3 Growth Summit.

Lots of people start growing Web3 products but a few succeed — this industry’s full of mistakes and failures. At HeyGrowth they know how to scale up right — by learning from the best. On July 25—29 they’re organizing the Web3 Growth Summit to share best practices from the fastest-growing companies like Bitski, Tally, Aragon, CoinStats and others to help you grow in Web3. 

At the Web3 Growth Summit they’ll teach you how to:

— Get tons of users via engagement channels to boost a product;

— Run an effective DAO and grow it at each stage of the product life cycle;

— Create powerful growth tactics for play-to-earn products;

— Build a successful NFT marketing strategy to win the charts;

— Acquire new users and boost their experience in the Metaverse;

I will also share some growth tactics, so meet me there!

Join the Web3 Growth Summit to:

•           Meet 30+ industry experts covering the hottest topics on DeFi, DAO, NFTs, Metaverse & gaming.

•           Dive deeper into the actionable tools, strategies & trends in Web3.

•           Get practical knowledge on how to build and boost your Web3 products.

•           Grab a bunch of insights at the networking session with like-minded professionals and industry brightest people.

Use the promo code HEYNOMAD to enjoy 10% OFF. 

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The plan of the edition:

1/ Top 5 News of the Week 

2/ The intervention of the week: No interview this week 🔜

3/ Top 3 Web3 Entrepreneurial resources of the Week 

4/ Focus of the week: Hiring Web3 Talents 🤝

1/ Top 5 News of the Week

🐣 Elon Musk to add cryptocurrency features directly on Twitter… Despite facing important lawsuits for promoting Dogecoin, the famous billionaire keeps being active in the crypto industry with the announcement of crypto payments on social media.

⌚️TAG Heuer announces the ability to display NFTs on its watches! The luxury brand also gets started in web3 with an exclusive feature to connect modern digital watches to a crypto wallet and view NFTs on its products.

👷‍♂️Binance, Kraken, and Polygon accelerate Hiring processes despite the current crisis. Several web3 giants decided to accelerate the search for new talents to face the current industry job cuts.

🥳 PartyDAO raises $16M for its NFT bidding platform… In the run for NFT technology, PartyDAO raised a new round of funding with famous web3 venture capitalists to connect with its platform PartyBid

🤝 French FinTech Giants Qonto and Coinhouse become partners to bring cryptos to companies! The deal will help to propose to firms the use of crypto assets for their businesses and opens the way to bigger possibilities for professionals. 

2/ The intervention of the week: No interview this week 🔜

No interview for this week, we’ll be waiting for next week to get more advice for inspiring entrepreneurs… Stay tuned! ✍️

3/ Top 3 Web3 Entrepreneurial resources of the Week 

The best resources to build your business in web3, just for you 👊

🥇 Introduction to Tokenomics 

🥈 How to become a blockchain developer (complete roadmap)

🥉 How to connect to decentralized internet in 2022?

4/ Focus of the week: Hiring Web3 Talents 🤝

In the race for web3 adoption and conquest, every business has been facing the same recurring problem… how to find web3 talents??? Lack of web3 education, not enough blockchain developers, and an incredible rise in wages, it has never been so difficult to seek real talents. But with methodology and the right decisions, one can still manage to build a strong team for its project! Here are a few learning from our experience… 👇

First, it’s really important that you take care to hire the right people for your web3 business. Beyond the product and the community, your team is an essential pillar to the success of the project. Seeking passionate and committed talents should be a milestone in your roadmap so that you can achieve what you’re aiming at. So what’s a good team? A good team is a team proportional to your project. The goal is not to raise funds in order to hire the maximum number of persons at the beginning of the project but to build piece by piece the team as your goals and achievements evolve. Of course, technical profiles should be your main preoccupation since they are both the most difficult to find and convince and they might be essential to propel the good functioning of your technology…

As a web3 entrepreneur, you might receive lots and lots of DMs and private messages with both people promoting their skills (mainly marketing and writing skills) or HR agencies trying to promote their service to help you find the right profile for your business. In my humble opinion, be careful with these two options since talented people barely have a need to DM projects and try to sell their skills. You can still find amazing talents in these situations but just be careful because the race for web3 also brings lots of unskilled people trying to surf the wave to make quick money. In this case, what I do is that I ask people to fill out a quick form ( to sort only the motivated ones) and to link their experiences in the industry and personal background. Then according to my current needs, a call is often a good way to temper the person and detect if it could fit the team.

Three good tips tested to find our working mates now. First, promoting an offer on LinkedIn will surely attract some profiles interested to work on your project. But same advice as before, be careful with their motivations and experience when picking them up. Then mouth-to-mouth communication is surely a great way to hire your talents. Web3 is a friendly place and people start to know each other a lot… Asking business partners, other web3 entrepreneurs you might know, or direct members of your team for nice contacts to hire is really efficient to discover amazing profiles for your company. People might send you trusted people with proven skills and can put you in contact directly so that you can convince them easily. Finally, we found a few of our teammates using freelancing platforms. Basically, it’s a good way to test some profiles on quick and small missions and spend small amounts of money. You’ll be able to test some profiles with your tasks and then if you feel the profile can bring strong value to your team, you can still propose him a bigger contract! 

But convincing demanded talents can be tough. The salaries are very high and if you don’t have enough capital to afford high biddings, you’ll need to bring some other arguments. Real talents in web3 are mostly passionate… sell them a powerful vision, great working conditions, advantages, and primes such as tokens airdrops or access to huge events and you might be able to enter the dance. People are tired of working on useless projects and many seek long-term businesses willing to bring real value to the ecosystem, so just sell it well!!!

Dealing with team organization, don’t be afraid to manage your team in a fully remote way. It will give you the opportunity to seek talents all around the world, with different horizons, experiences, and skills. Diversity is really encouraged in a web3 project and will bring substantial value to your project trust me. 

Julian (Nomad Pirate)

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