How to input curated projects on Veck

So, what do we need to input good quality projects to Veck:

Our dashboard

Crunchbase – main database for web2/web3 deals

Rootdata – web3 deals database

LinkedIn – for checking companies, founders, investors

Twitter/X – to track company activity and updates

That's important to focus on good quality projects, what do we define by good quality projects:

• We need to make sure the project is not already trading pubclicly and is still a private company
  
  How we do this: for web2 company we can go to Crunchbase and check if it has a publicky trading ticker / for web3 company we can go to Rootdata / Coinmarketcap and check if the company has a traded token
  
• We need to check if the company is bootstrapped business or venture backed business
  
  How we do this: we can go to Crunchbase and check its venture stage. If the company is still operating and exists for more than several years it is most likely bootstrapped at least at this particular moment.
  
• The project is solving a real problem: that's not an NFT project, some sort of art, etc.
  
  How we do this: we can go to their website and check what the project is doing, we can check their twitter posts, or we can know it from their description on twitter.
  
• The project has not been acquired by another big company
  
  How we do this: we can see it in twitter description / in Crunchbase.
  
• The project is still operating and active
  
  How we do this: we can see it on Crunchbase or guess from their activity in twitter, website, or from their linkedin (you will see that the number of employees has reduced significanlty on the company's page)
  
  

• The project is not part or is not a product / has not been incubated by an other big project
  
  How we do this: usually we can see in the project description that the project is funded / created by the team / incubated / etc. by a big project that we already have on the platform / that is already public.

So now let's go deep into the platform:

https://dashboardd-pi.vercel.app/

You only need to use 'New signals' and 'Projects' for now.
New signals for inputting new signals and projects to the platform
Projects to find existing projects in the platform by their name.

New signals

1. Signal type – we have to types of signals:
   
   1) classified signals curated by AI and marked as smth significant and
   
   2) All signals which include the noise (that can still have some valuable information btw)
   
   For now we first focus on manual curation of 'Classified Signals' so we first check the classified signals.
2. Archive status – always use 'Active' here.
3. Platform – always use Twitter/Warpcaster here.
4. Investors – always use 'All' here.
5. Fund – we can select a particular fund to curate signals from it.
6. Signal date – better to start from today's date signals so you can filter by it.
7. Saved for Later – that's a filter for checking signals that we have saved for later to check it because we were not sure at the moment
   
   

That's how it looks when set up for today (7 oct 2024):

Let's dig in and try a few examples:

We can DISCARD it because according to the description it is just an agency doing design. Not an early project.

That's a person doing work for a startup Brex (already mature startup with a lot of funding). We will ARCHIVE this person because he can become a founder in future and we want to receive signals on him in the future.

That's a competition and we can DISCARD it.

Investor doing growth equity at Alpha Wave Global. We can ARCHIVE him or SAVE FOR LATER to input him in the investor list to follow.

that's a startup (web3), so we can check it on Crunchbase and Rootdata.
We click on Approve.

We can't find the project on Crunchbase, but we found it on Rootdata. Let's use the description from Rootdata:

We also check for the right name, the right URL and website.

Now we choose the Parent and Child categories. That's a web3 project, for child categories you can look in Rootdata.

So we input it:

Stage, Round status:

We cant' see the stage on Rootdata, but we see that the project was founded in 2023 + we don't see any announced rounds of investments.

We can guess that since the project has been existing for > 1 year, it is already on the seed stage. Since we see a lot of interactions with this project on our platform it is about to raise or may be raising already.

Now we unput links on socials that we can find:

We found only twitter, so inputed it.

We now click on 'Create project' and voila it is on the platform.

The next project we see is the same one:

We just click on 'Approve' and check it has the right Twitter slug (== its real twitter slug):

And we click on 'Create project' without inputing anything else.

And voila, the new investor signal has been added to the existing signal:

Next signal we see:

That's a founder building a project named Samaria.
There is no Samaria handle in Twitter or link to Samaria:

Let's try to find out in google.

We see it here:

Let's go there:

From their website we see that this is a Media company doing smth with Manga. That's probably more of a bootstrapped company, but they are part of Techstars so they plan to raise capital. We can also see from their website that their Twitter was created only in March 2024, so the project may be considered as early stage.

Let's input them to the platform.

We found their twitter on their website, so we can use its slug + URL from there.

But we also found them in Crunchbase and there we can see this is more of an agency but trying to get into venture side probably. Let's still input them. That's not the easiest case btw.

So we used their slug from Twitter, name and URL. We used description from their website. The parent categories are services and mediatech.

The stage is bootstrapped since the company is active since 2017 and is working as a PR agency with some ambitions sine they are in Techstars.
We inputed their linkedin, twitter and crunchbase and we can now click on Create project.