there are more than 5 top crypto teams that are hiring an India Lead right now in my dms each team's primary requirement is someone experienced, someone who has done it before someone like a Saumya from Base, Vish from Berachain or Naresh from Aptos (yes most teams have outright name dropped) writing this as a guide for anyone looking to apply for such regional focused roles with a reference to @iamsmitpatel_'s journey to becoming @WormholeFdn's India Lead when teams say they're looking for someone experienced - they are essentially saying they dont want to micromanage this individual and want them to be high agency and get stuff done on their own in this scenario, you need to take initiative and approach them with prework (or let them approach you) > in @iamsmitpatel_'s case, he was part of the wormhole fellowship and had already shown the team that he had all the right skills to help us expand in India (more on how to build these skills below) > i would assume for Saumya, the opportunity arose because he had taken the initiative of starting FBI and the Base team took notice > when i was applying at the foundation, i had a 30 slide deck showing the team how we should be thinking about APAC, it was essentially what anyone would have done on the first week of the job - i had done it pre hand show them you are interested in this position, communicate your thought process and everything you'd do if you were in the hot seat its also important for you to have the right skills to for the job, when teams say that they want someone who has done it before regionally, essentially they want someone - > with experience organising meetups (building community) > with experience organising hackathons (building developer community) > history of writing blogs and tweeting (running socials) > great public speaking skills presentable (eligible spokesperson) (there are many other skills but i would say these are the most important for an India/Region Lead) now, if you don't have the necessary experience - what should you do? the number one, most needle moving thing is to join the community of the project you'd like to contribute to and fafo like Smit did if you're not in college right now, this is the number one advice i'd give you as you spend time in the community chats and gain trust of the mods - if you propose irl community building events, they will empower you w the right resources to do so but if you are in college, you have an edge right now, there are so many different college clubs that you can work with to - > try and host a web3 meetup > try and host a mini hackathon with a developer club > build relationships with teams through sponsorship asks/inviting them to be speakers at these meetups > gain public speaking experience with your college's toastmasters/debate club these experiences compound during interviews and help portray a history of these skills whats equally as important as acquiring these skills is to post about your contributions frequently on X - people take notice and theres a higher chance you might get inbound great recent example, @etharvv - he started hosting meetups in mumbai with @weareWeb3Mumbai and now is working w Stellar India to help them expand in the region (also a Wormhole India Fellow) this mostly covers Indian ecosystem examples and wins but this thought process is the same for each region specially in APAC good luck!

after @ElectricCapital's Developer Report - every ecosystem must be working towards allocating (more) resources towards onboarding developers from India here's a starting point on how to think about the Indian Web3 Developer Ecosystem - the colleges with the most crypto activity in India are SRM Chennai (@BlockchainSRM) and BITS Goa - both serve as a great starting point for activations (imo) the biggest dilemma we face as an industry, is that the average Indian engineering student does not know about opportunities in the web3 space - building a web3 project/portfolio gets them nowhere right now everything for these college student is limited to on-campus opportunities which include college organised placement drives job fairs the “MAANG” dream pushes these students towards competitive coding and learning data structures and algorithms the current state of hackathons in our industry serves as a moat to attract potential founders and developers w prior experience but not the ones starting out their journey (another hurdle being that these hackathons are location specific/restrictive) as an industry, we need to better appeal to them through job opportunities in the space - the willingness to learn new tech has always come from personal greed or specific undesired circumstances (peter thiel talked about this on the joe rogan podcast, how noone wanted to do computer science in the 80s) the best way to onboard new developers in India is to engage them at the source i.e in their college many ways to do so, here are some examples - > organise hackathons IN their college > organise workshops IN their colleges > give out internship opportunities to winners of the hackathon > participate in the oncampus job placement drive > put together ecosystem specific entrepreneur in residence programs > work w the students to open a blockchain club; in the current landscape - microsoft and google both have huge presence in colleges w their own tech clubs run by the students the more developers see web3/crypto and associate their own prosperity in getting involved, the more developers will want to be involved be someone's starting point

The @berachain Liquidity Day- Ooru Edition begins, Let’s yap Bera 🐻⛓️ Ooga Booga 🥂

Just second day of IBW’24 and already all @BlockchainSRM teams won more than $10,000 in total

Club's first event @BlockchainSRM (2022) @0xAishwary was the speaker. After that we hosted 20 events , and the real meet-up used to be a post speaker session at my flat. What started small for fun got us @mintairxyz @Sidebot_ @defyapp_ and others (under construction) rising up. @BlockchainSRM won 70 national-international hackathons all together won 30 , Team Wasuli) and many times the competition was bw us than other colleges, it was the bear of 2023 we called it Hackathon Farming 🚀🚀 Advice for new college clubs rising up: Main agenda of the club: Good non-normie parties. Communities represent cultures and principles, having both is important for the vibes. Hobbyists will outperform hardworkers, cultural building is what the talks should be around you(and in your parties).

Club's first event @BlockchainSRM (2022) @0xAishwary was the speaker. After that we hosted 20 events , and the real meet-up used to be a post speaker session at my flat. What started small for fun got us @mintairxyz @Sidebot_ @defyapp_ and others (under construction) rising up. @BlockchainSRM won 70 national-international hackathons all together won 30 , Team Wasuli) and many times the competition was bw us than other colleges, it was the bear of 2023 we called it Hackathon Farming 🚀🚀 Advice for new college clubs rising up: Main agenda of the club: Good non-normie parties. Communities represent cultures and principles, having both is important for the vibes. Hobbyists will outperform hardworkers, cultural building is what the talks should be around you(and in your parties).

Club's first event @BlockchainSRM (2022) @0xAishwary was the speaker. After that we hosted 20 events , and the real meet-up used to be a post speaker session at my flat. What started small for fun got us @mintairxyz @Sidebot_ @defyapp_ and others (under construction) rising up. @BlockchainSRM won 70 national-international hackathons all together won 30 , Team Wasuli) and many times the competition was bw us than other colleges, it was the bear of 2023 we called it Hackathon Farming 🚀🚀 Advice for new college clubs rising up: Main agenda of the club: Good non-normie parties. Communities represent cultures and principles, having both is important for the vibes. Hobbyists will outperform hardworkers, cultural building is what the talks should be around you(and in your parties).

Builders don't just inspire other builders. They create movements inside their educational institutions. Kudos to @Sarv_shaktiman and @manangouhari! Feel like they're partially responsible for the success of @BlockchainSRM @SCSETBennett and it shows on this leaderboard.

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