Starting from 0?
Here are some of the best opportunities that this cycle offers, if you wanna get that first bag:
1. Freemint NFTs = we are at the beginning of a huge NFT season, there will be plenty of opportunities, make sure to try to get into every single free NFT mint
Building a social presence is paramount if you wanna get more of these, but even with 0 presence, there are still opportunities if you're creative and use generative AI well, or simply be a decent community member that helps others in community channels. There will be teams that see you.
2. Gigs = most projects and teams have something that they're awful at. Some have terrible branding and social media posts. Some need much better content. Some have plenty of bugs in their website.
If you choose yourself an area where you can be helpful to brands specifically, and find the ones that have a lack, and go at them with what you have already created, and knock on enough doors, there will be opportunities, just need to see where you can add value and to whom.
Utilizing AI here is also a smart choice.
3. Hackathons & competitive events = there are always some brands out there doing social events, hackathons, and other sort of things in crypto.
If you bookmark the right websites and spend time in the right Telegram channels where others are looking for opportunities to go from 0 to 1, you'll see them more often.
There are plenty of sites like CoinMarketCal, DoraHacks, Galxe, and more where you'll see opportunities quite frequently.
4. Airdrops = there are always airdrop opportunities somewhere; some will be small hits, some will be bigger hits. Spend time on the right websites like airdropsio, follow the biggest Telegram channels by searching airdrop (there are plenty) with 500k+ to 1m subscribers, where they post daily opportunities.
As a founder who distributed millions in airdrops and knows how important they are for community building, if you spend time in the right places, opportunities will come.
5. Be creative
Where the market lacks something you can offer, how you can stand out from the crowd, find those gaps.
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When I started my journey in crypto, everyone was raising money, but I didn't, and I started my first project with an airdrop. I had very little to spend on marketing, so I did everything myself at first.
Outcompeted 100+ launchpads that year, went from 0 to 380M marketcap in 9 months. Airdrops we sent some people got as much as $17k base, and plenty more from staking/farming and IDOs. Probably $50k or so for those who paid attention.
There are always founders like me who will utilize airdrops, free mints, and more to go find them.
The first team members we had were all from the community and were helping others. Being helpful goes long ways.
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There will be plenty of naysayers saying you can't make it from 0. Or very little.
You can. Good luck!