How to Go From Hackathon to Funding | Elliscope, Ray, Dani Osorio, Alan Hampton

um early on a lot of these things really come down to personal relationships interactions trying to figure out um getting all the input that you can the hardest thing about being a crypto founder is you don't really have tons of feedback uh since like day one right you kind of have to walk in the dark figure out a lot of these things on your on your own and the truth is you don't really have to if you find the right people that's surrounding you um via hackathon where fellow Builders are trying to build different things or via um you know investors like prar that works really closely with the protocols uh so we we probably had probably like what like close to like a 100 meetings with the press star guys like for the first like couple months just to trying to figure out how do we position ourselves and you want to have someone in the corner where they are truly like an AMA that you could ask them anything um because even if you have done something in this space this space changes so quickly