How to do an ICO – A step to step guide to AWESOMENESSSSS! #BLOCKCON

OBJECTIVE

Understand the steps, stakeholders, costs involved and basically understand how the omelette is made while having fun!

AGENDA

::MORNING::

• Current industry costs by stakeholder
• Best practices & stakeholders
• Pitfalls & mistakes
• Walkthrough compressed timeline of an ICO and (try to) experience the nuances involved
• Sales platform, KYC & email templates

::LUNCH::

• + Live Practice: Write a whitepaper
• + Live Practice: Announcement Site
• + Live Practice: Token Allocations & Reserves
• + Live Practice: How to bloody do growth hacking, social, bounty and referral programs

Pre-Requisites

1. Have a good nights sleep
2. Have an idea
3. If your idea has already been ICO’d by another company in any remote flavor, then please write down 10 points why they suck
4. Now write 10 bullet points on why “your idea” does not suck and is the shit we all have been waiting for
5. Write down names/titles of team members (hypothetical is OK)
6. Write down names of advisors and why they are best suited for your idea/project (students who pick Vitalik as an advisor get extra points)
7. Write 2-pages of what your Blockchain based company will do once you get the funds to build all features and go-live. Then please change the future tense of your poetry to present tense as if its already built and live for users
8. Write down 10-folks who will be investing in your pre-sale
9. Get an domain/account on a landing page site like launchrocket or Godaddy or some platform where you can quickly create a landing page
10. Create a google excel sheet and write down #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10 from above in seperate tabs.

This is not a legal or regulatory advice class.

INSTRUCTOR

Kurt Kumar: www.linkedin.com/in/kurtkumar/

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