Progress rarely happens in the Randian sense of unstoppable achievement.
Somewhere in the first few pages of Atlas Shrugged there’s a phrase along the lines of: “No matter how tired she became, she refused to let her back slump. She stared at the page and continued to work.”
That’s… not how I do it, lol. I’m a big believer in sleep and mental health and having fun, and I think those things can go together alongside building something amazing.
Have fun, be weird
Nonetheless, there always comes a time when you have to forge ahead and make that shit happen. We are approaching that moment for the steem-powered venue.
The Current Status of the Steem-Powered Venue in Raleigh
You can see the first few posts on this project to catch up, here they are:
Getting Into Details - Looking at Logistics for the Steem-Powered Music Venue in Raleigh
I can’t believe it has been 19 days since the last update… fuck! Time flies when you’re working on a lot of great projects. This is a big learning experience for me as well - I’ll be striving to provide more regular communication regarding the project from here on out.
The interest is there. The team is ready - I’ve got 6+ local music influencers all telling me they want to make the project happen.
All we need is the organization, the communication, the forward momentum. We need to make the decisions and go from thinking to doing. This is my specialty.
Tomorrow’s Meeting // What Roles Need to Be Filled?
I’m meeting tomorrow evening with the whole team again. My goal is to set concrete tasks and roles for each of us.
We will eat pizza while we discuss.
My role will be Steem Fundraiser and Liaison. I will be to handle all of the steem-side stuff: Reaching out to users for upvote support, coordinating with the @sndbox incubator, creating and scheduling content on the upcoming official venue steemit account, and other stuff like that.
The other people on the team will have some say in what they do, but I have ideas already for other roles:
We’ll need a Chief Financial Officer or some less fancy version of the role - this will be the guy who keeps track of all money, not just steem funds, and sends it to the right places. For example: Paying bands, buying gear for the venue, sending excess profits to charitable causes, crunching the numbers on future expenses, providing me with verifiable info / receipts for all cash earned and spent so I can share that information on steemit, etc etc
Booking Agent / Band Liaison - This will be the role of booking shows and communicating with bands leading up to each event.
Logistical Coordinator will be the person who is responsible for overseeing the shows. Making sure we have all the night-to-night roles filled, preferably by hiring local musicians - sound guy, door person, etc. They’ll also be responsible for making sure we have all the right gear and that the venue is kept in great condition.
One other one, just off the top of my head, would be a Public Relations Liaison - this person would help us stay in good graces with all local regulators. Ideally they’d be proactive about reaching out to the police, Raleigh’s regulatory agencies, and anybody else we need to talk to to avoid any legal issues.
What’s Next?
I’m eyeing a launch date of March 2018. We have a lot of work ahead of us - raising funds, finding a physical location that meets our needs, coordinating with bands and setting up the first shows, on and on it goes. March seems like an aggressive yet doable target date for opening.
In the short term, I will be launching the venue’s steemit account in November and starting to create content and reach out to steem influencers for upvote support. 100% of funds from that account will go towards the venue, with no profits taken. More info is coming soon on how we will make that information public and verifiable.
And… that’s it! I’ll share a few more updates in the next two weeks via this account, then it’ll all move over to the official venue account and the fundraising / awareness campaign will begin.
This. Is. Going. To. Rule.
Dope as fuuuch... I want to do an event and in order to get in you have to sign up to steemit. I know a lot of music people that will do me a homie favor. I feel like I can get big enough artist that people will have to sign up. Anyways... I wish you the best I will be following. I love this idea. I wish there were more people in my area on steemit. I'm trying to change that.
Nice dude! It's cool to incorporate steem into events, although kinda tough to make signups mandatory since it takes 3-5 business days for accounts to get verified.
It's taken me a long time to learn how to recruit people, but I'm getting better.. you can do it with some practice! good luck
Stumbled upon this post and... wow! I would love to be involved in something like this in South Africa. Our local musicians are top-notch but support for live acts is dying out. Something like this could really freshen things up around here. I will be following your progress with breath abated!
Good luck.
Thanks man! Whereabouts in South Africa? I have a few friends from Capetown.
Hey! Only saw this now. Yeah, I'm living in Cape Town. If your friends are in the music business, chances are we know each other! It's a really small town.
Looks like this is going to be a success. You're on top of it. Impressive.
Hope so.
Digging the progression like an old school megadeth lead , keep firing
Pure death metal mode engaged. Nothing but blast beats from here until the venue launch day.
cool idea, do you have like a "kickstarter-goal" when you can make it happen or will you just work with the mone you get even if you cannot pay the artists?
I'm working out the financial specifics today. I think the plan will be to fundraise for a few months by creating steemit content and seeking upvote support, then in January/February 2018 we'll see how much progress we have made, hopefully aiming to start doing shows somehow by March 2018.
If the fundraising goes well and steem price moves up, we could get ambitious. If it's more humble, we might try to find a cheap house and do shows in the basement (using money only to pay bands / promote / etc, not to pay for rent).
There will be more specific info about this stuff in the next week or so. Meeting with the team tonight... stay tuned.