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         - template

     

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       A Google Sheet for running budget scenarios and basic cashflow forecasting.

     

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       It's meant to help early stage startups run some rough numbers on what their expenses are going to be, and how that relates to investment rounds.

     

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       This was originally developed by me at [[Full Stack]] for primarily Canadian startups, but isn't for any specific country or currency.

     

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       If you are a distributed team, it may make sense to treat everything in $USD.

     

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       The general expenses are "real" numbers in the sense that unless you have specific knowledge of costs, they are a good starting point and what you can expect to pay. e.g. $250 / month for a year of corporate accounting, and the same for year 1 legal, although legal is usually paid in lump sum fees[^saaslegal].

     

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       [^saaslegal]: I've been trying to convince Canadian law firms to implement recurring legal fees. If anyone knows of firms doing this, or wants to try it, I'd love to talk. I don't mean "legal as a service", just literally normalizing costs for year 1 / year 2. Most startup focused firms already flat rate and/or defer costs, this just gets startups used to budgeting for legal properly!

     

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       ## Google Sheet

     

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       Here is the [Google Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t2NkXu12QyeDcRoHHo47sYYKy2aWCPhvsGXG48bDz2U/edit) version. Use the _File » Make a copy_ command to make your own version to work with.

     

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       <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQNFzZ3h7hZmLcbLcsTOoF8HSZqxJMQ3mZKNC4O7W3qLqZj-UnK51MS1TgBUJy8zc06lzVbbqnqRPLY/pubhtml?gid=989402327&amp;single=true&amp;widget=true&amp;headers=false" width="100%" height="1600"></iframe>

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       Initiated by [[Orion Reed]], we're exploring a September/October/November 2024 event.

     

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       * The future of computing

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       Co-hosted with [[Mai Ishikawa Sutton]], with media support from [[DWeb]].

     

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       [[Fission]] sponsored the venue.

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       Community Search Engines is the label for a set of approaches to interconnect communities. 

     

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       [[Lieu]] is an example of some code that helps build community search engines and webrings.

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       ActivityPub: https://social.coop/@mai

     

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       > My work lies at the intersection of technology and the solidarity economy. I’m passionate about strengthening the digital commons, in which people control and steward communication technologies as collective goods.

     

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       > I’m interested in how digital commoning is made possible through cooperative ownership, decentralized technologies, and governance structures that allow strong patterns of communication and constructive feedback loops.

     

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       One of the original stewards of the [[DWeb]]

     

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       Co-host for [[Causal Islands LA]]

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       link: https://www.mvdemos.com

     

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       ## June 30th @ Beaumont Studios

     

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       > Minimum Viable Demos is an evening showcase of ambitious projects exploring technology, art, and science.

     

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       > Come celebrate experimentation, craft, and bright visions of the future.

     

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       > MVD is hosted at Beaumont Studios with support from Vancouver communities: [Novus](https://www.novus.build/), [Atelier](https://atelier.ac/), [Z Space](https://z-space.ca/#/info), [DWebYVR](https://dwebyvr.org/wiki/About), and [FPC](https://lu.ma/future-proof).

     

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       <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kboI7Lc6iKE?si=-PiYG448mBLn49yS" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

     

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       * [Buy a ticket](https://lu.ma/5tngn4bz)

     

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       * [Apply to demo](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeaaTzn2ZdKncHXauuvxqu0ruAxHQzczkuKg7XdvQKePUwQA/viewform)

     

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       If we hope to see [[Open Social Protocols]] succeed -- that is, be available and widely adopted as open protocols that many people, apps, organizations, and more can use and interoperate between -- we need to track what the Daily Active Users (DAUs) look like.

     

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       [Farcaster.network Dashboard](https://farcaster.network/)

     

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       ![Screenshot of farcaster.network, May 22, 2024](/assets/2024/farcaster.network.png)

     

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