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DASH VENEZUELA
We are a group of entrepreneurs in love with the particularities of DASH - Digital Cash, and because the Dash Community believed in our project, today we aspire to be part of the solution of the challenging reality of our country.
With a focus on generating win-win initiatives through entrepreneurship, our main objective is to promote the knowledge, valuation and adoption of this cryptocurrency in Venezuela.
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OUR HISTORY:
In early 2017, thanks to Amanda B. Johnson’s YouTube shows (“The Daily Decrypt”, “DASH School” and “DASH: Detailed”),I became aware of the existence of DASH - Digital Cash and its decentralized governance through the DAO.
So, in june 2017 I began for the first time the process of submitting a pre-proposal and, later, with the support of DASH Community, the first proposal for her project, a one year long cycle of conferences entitled: “DASH - DIGITAL CASH and other cryptocurrencies for entrepreneurs”.
These are conferences in the city of Caracas, with experts in every subjects, held once a month since september 2017, dedicated to entrepreneurs, so they could learn what is blockchain, what are cryptocurrencies, what is DASH and how to accept it as payment or donation. That was the beginning of the first DASH comunity in Venezuela: DASH Caracas.
When I first envisioned it, I planned for activities for 80 people, but the public response was so big that I had to re-think the whole thing to make big events of 600 people in the morning + 400 in the afternoon for DASH City.
With a growing team, we held the conferences succesfuly, and then in December 2017, we held the first DASH City, an activity created to simulate an entire ecosystem, where entrepreneurs and merchants practiced how to sell their goods and services with DASH, as the attendees to the event (around 1 K people each month) learn how to pay using only DASH, where participants can buy from a cup of coffee to a motorcycle, using only DASH - Digital Cash.
In our YouTube Channel you can watch a sample of our activities.
After several months of our work with DASH Caracas, there began an overwhelming amount of calls, emails, meeting requests, advisory requests, for me and my team, of individuals and teams seeking for advice on how to form a succesful community and how to submit succesfully proposals to the DASH DAO, among other things.
Attending this requirements takes working hours from me and my team, who are freelancers who live of what we can do with our time.
In the proposals for DASH Caracas' events, we are very careful to not overcharge anything, so there is no money left for paying the team for this "extra hours", so we are seeking other spaces where to place in budget the payment for this other projects.
That is how DASH Venezuela has been born, with its four programs.
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Our Vision:
To be leaders in driving the adoption and responsible use of DASH - Digital Cash in Latin America.
Our Mission:
To generate opportunities for the evolution of Venezuelans.
Our Values:
- Entrepreneur's Spirit: Innovation + Creativity + Enthusiasm + Resilience + Disruption
- Trust
- Responsibility
- Transparency
- Love: Passion + Service + Solidarity + Compassion
- Connection: Alliances + Relationships + Cooperation
- ADOPTION: To reach at least 1000 entrepreneurs or companies that adopt DASH - Digital Cash as payment registered in the directory of Dash Venezuela.
- ALLIANCES: To establish at least 35 strategic alliances in Venezuela and 2 in Latin America.
- SELF-SUSTAINABILITY: To aachieve 10% self-sustainability.
OUR PROGRAMS:
● ENTREPRENEURS: Support and training for business and social entrepreneurs that want to accept DASH - Digital Cash as a form of payment or donation.
You can find these entrepreneurs here:
- www.dashvenezuela.org
- www.discoverdash.com
- Criptolugares VE
● COMMUNITIES: Support and training for leaders of new DASH Communities who want to work in alliance with DASH Venezuela.
We provide advisory to other communities in Venezuela, when they are little, we don't "charge" them, because we know they do not yet know how to ask for funding, we teach them how to do that, and teach them how to make a meetup or small event, and thanks to the aproval of the latest proposal, we have funds to help them finance this activities, and to pay for the hours of the freelancers dedicated to help them.
When the community is strong enoungh or big enough, such as DAH Maracay or DASH PLC, we teach them how to sumbit a proposal to the DASH Treasury, besides the large amount of hours we dedicate to them in order to give them advice on how to succesfully run a big event such as the conferences we have held in Caracas and how to host the DASH City, which is the experience we invented so merchants and consumers could learn practically how to sell and buy good and services using only DASH.
HOW THE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMS WORK:
People and teams usually get in touch with me and my team, via email, social media or aproaching us in our events. Then they say they want to form a new community and if we want to help them.
In that case, we help them get in touch with @Jahlexis_Tafari who is the Communities Program Coordinator. Then he explains to them about what we do in DASH Venezuela, and the alliance terms (we ask the Community to sign a mutual alliance and a confidentiality contract) and when is all taken care of, we welcome them in our Telegram Group for Communities, where they can enjoy the networking with all of the other community leaders.
Then we start giving them some general recommendations we have developed. For example, what kind of activities they can develope in order to boost DASH Adoption in their city, or the graphic recomendations @huguito prepared after getting the new brand guidelines from the Core Team. This materials are open to discussion and suggestions by all of the other leaders.
Sometimes they require individual guidance, and @Jahlexis_Tafari takes care of that both in person or via phone / email / Telegram.
We share with them different ways of financing their activities, for example DASH Force contests, the budget we received in past cycle for communities activities or DASH Treasury
If they want to get funding directly from DASH Venezuela, we ask them to prepare a budget, that we evaluate together @Jahlexis_Tafari @Dashvefin (Financial Director) and myself. Then we aprove them and give them the funds, and try to accompany them in their first activities so they can have our support and resolve any doubts in the way.
If they want to submit a proposal to the DASH DAO, we give them materials we have preparated for workshops in this subject, and invite them to study our proposal history in the DASH Forum.
If they want further support, we give them a commercial proposal, where we offer an ammount of consulting hours in exchange for a fee that will only be charged if the proposal passes.
If they accept (like the case of Maracay and PLC) then we dedicate hours to guide them in the process of making a pre-proposal and a proposal, and support them in every step.
If their proposal is aproved, like the first one from Maracay, then we dedicate more consulting hours to help them organize their first conference and their first DASH City, including all of the preparing activities.
● PROPOSALS: Advice and support for people and teams who want to submit proposals to the DASH Treasury in alliance with DASH Venezuela.
- Cryptolifex
- DASH Help
- DASH Maracay
● COMPANIES: Support and training for companies that want to accept DASH as a solution
We teach companies not only how to accept DASH as payments, but also how to use it as a solution for other of their problems, such as import/export, treasury and human resources.
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HOW WE WORK:
In the process of making this journey, me and my team have been always very clear that we are not a filter and that wanting our support does not mean that we are some kind of pre-requirement or anything like that. You can find that I have declared this in public every time I speak of the programs, either in the Conferences (you can find recordings in our YouTube Channel: DASH Venezuela) or in mass media interviews.
Me and my team are learning at the same time that we are operating and growing. We are doing the best we can with what we have and what we know.
Actually, we have had a lot of lessons to learn. For example, at the beginning, all of our agreements where verbal, but that brought us trouble when some of the people or teams we related to did not honor those agreements, so we are in the process of making some agreement documents, so both parties are protected in the process.
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ALLIES OF DASH VENEZUELA
Communities, teams or people who are working to contribute to the promotion of the massive adoption of Dash in our country, and who have accepted and signed alliance and confidentiality agreements, which demonstrate our mutual commitment to work in collaboration, not competition and respect for the sensitive information that we may share.
Allied Projects
- Dashification: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dashification-turning-a-country-into-a-dash-nation.39292/
Allied Communities
- DASH Barquisimeto
- DASH Baruta
- Dash Bolívar
- DASH Costas de Aragua
- DASH Falcón
- DASH Guarenas-Guatire
- DASH Guayana
- DASH Higuerote
- DASH La Guaira
- DASH Libertador
- DASH Los Teques
- DASH Maracaibo
- DASH Maracay
- DASH Mérida
- Dash Monagas
- DASH Puerto La Cruz
- DASH San Antonio de Los Altos
- DASH Táchira
- DASH Valencia
- Dash Valera-Trujillo
- DASH Valle de la Pascua
- Dash Yaracuy
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FRIENDS OF DASH VENEZUELA
Communities, teams or people with similar interests and objectives, but for various reasons have not signed agreements with Dash Venezuela (maybe they will in the future). With these teams we have good relationships, but for the protection of sensitive information, they have less access to diverse activities and spaces organized by Dash Venezuela.
- Centro de Cultura Digital
- Criptolugares VE
- Colibit
- Dash Help
- DASH Merchant
- Dash Los Roques
- DASH Youth
- eBitCo
- Tutellus
Web page:
www.dashvenezuela.org
@dashcaracas
Twitter + Instagram
@dashcaracas
@dash_venezuela
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