Business Dev - Acquire First 10 Customers

Estimated date of completion: 2025H2 Period

Resources Required for 2025H2:

  • 1 Business Development Lead
  • 0.5 Solution Engineer
  • Comms Hubs Support

Onboard Waku first 10 customers. Customers are projects using Waku for their peer-to-peer communication stack, or conversation/chat. First 10 customers assume involvement from the engineering team to get things right and help co-design.

Status, Railgun, TheGraph, Portrait and Chrom.ar should count as the first five.

A couple of projects are in stealth mode and can be counted in once they go public.

Strategic Objective

Logos Movement Community Enabling: Growth

Risks

Risk(Accept, Own, Mitigation)
No dedicated Dev RelWork closely with Logos Movement to funnel developers to Waku. Apply guerilla tacting to leverage current Waku team members. Use Solution Engineer for conference talk and presence.
No dedicated Growth LeadRely on Comms Hubs for Social Media presence, event organization, content and other initiatives. Leverage keen Waku team members to roll out dev community growth initiatives.

KPIs for 2025H2

TODO: These are proposed KPI, need to iterate on them. Will review by EOW (13 June.)

  • Identify 15 Highly Qualified Leads
  • Discuss solution engineering with 10 leads
  • Bring 5 leads into Discord bridge (will to connect and discuss)
  • 3 new integrations started
  • Identify 3 ecosystem grants, and secure initial calls

Deliverables

Chat SDK MVP Definition

Owner: BD

Based on customer interviews and co-design sessions, identify the potential Waku Chat SDK USPs and outline an MVP.

Communicate with targeted customers on MVP.