**Revolutionising Support for Web3 Founders with NEAR Horizon** 🌅 @nearhorizon.near ▪️**Link to Twitter Space**: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1djxXlOOwjzxZ?s=20 ▪️**TEXT RECAP**: **1. Introduction to Near Horizon** - A startup support platform connecting founders with people, organizations, and resources to help them succeed. - Laura Cunningham is the general manager leading the team to develop the product and create partnerships. - Focus on supporting founders from the idea phase to the pre-seed and seed stages. - Join the platform to become part of a community of rich support. - Does not take equity in projects. - Offers access to learning resources, mentors, and advice. **2. Near Horizon's Service Providers and Partners** - Works with 150+ service providers and partners to offer support to its members - Partners with traditional accelerator programs like Outlier, Fabric X, Antler, Encode Club, and others to provide programming for founders - Partners with VCs to bring them into Horizon and organize pitch days and events to connect founders with VCs. **3. Future Pitch Fest Events** - Next Pitch Fest event is TBD. - Near Horizon team planning to participate in Collision, an upcoming tech conference in North America. - Considering a private pitch event in June in Chicago with a VC partner. - Big pitch fest event at Nearcon, scheduled for the latter half of the year. **4. Near Horizon Credits** - Available for founders to apply for through the platform and can be used to pay service providers within the platform. - Credits based on activity on the platform, with founders earning credits by updating their profile, putting up their pitch deck, and building their overall presence. **5. End-to-end journey for a founder on Near Horizon** - Founders create a profile and can apply for partner programs, and credits, or explore the ecosystem - Near Horizon's team can provide support and introductions to relevant people in the ecosystem. **6. Reasons for building on the blockchain operating system (BOS)** - Decentralized distribution channel for Horizon provides organic user acquisition. - Ability to use components built by the community and contribute to the library. - Existing onboarding experience saves time and money. - BOS handles infrastructure tasks like searchability and indexing. - Belief in the value of open source and desire to be part of the community. **7. Forking Horizon** - Welcome partners in building and open to working with developers in the community. - Putting out contribution requests for developers to help build the platform with them. **8. Horizon and the social component of the BOS** - Social component is a major value proposition of Horizon and the BOS. - Horizon aims to connect founders, builders, VCs, and the ecosystem to build a growing matrix or mesh - Group and chat features are on the roadmap. **9. Future Plans for Horizon** - Integration of group and chat features - Development of a more curated backer journey - Addition of a Q&A section for founders - Feature for soft introductions to people in the ecosystem - Continuous addition of backers and service providers - Improvement of user experience and bug fixes **10. Horizon's Pathways for Founders and Builders** - Founders can choose between the self-guided pathway or partnering with accelerators. - The self-guided pathway allows founders to request specific support from the community, without giving up ownership over their company. - Horizon has a two-way rating system for founders and service providers to hold both sides accountable. **11. Response to Horizon** - VCs see Horizon as a valuable tool for deal flow and accessing user and account information. - Founders are excited about taking control of decision-making and finding support on the platform. - The Horizon team values feedback and works closely with a beta group of founders. **12. Horizon platform's contributor section for freelancers** - Horizon has a contributor section for freelancers to create a profile and offer their skills to projects or vendors. - The section provides an opportunity for people interested in Web3 to work on projects without the need to work full-time. - Founders can connect with a pool of freelance talent. - The platform partners with agencies to promote inclusion of underrepresented groups. **13. Overview of Near Horizon's Learn tab** - The Learn tab is a repository of resources to provide the top five to ten things that founders need most immediately. **14. How to get involved with NEAR Horizon** - Go to near.org/horizon - Create a NEAR account if you don't already have one.