Ecosystem development is an important element to drive growth and adoption for web3 projects. The goal of ecosystem development for a web3 project is to attain sustainable critical mass as quickly as possible, with targeted efforts.

Ecosystem development is a combination of various tools that help a web3 project achieve this goal. This often includes broad based marketing, community engagement, developer engagement, end user experience and token dynamics and finally, targeted business development.

Each project is unique in its journey through product market fit chasm and the right tools at the right time, can help projects not just cross this chasm, but thrive. When successful, this means a more recognized brand, growing organic adoption and community participation, stronger project to project relationships (p2p) and business to project relationships (b2p).

I am sharing a few of tools and frameworks which have been developed based on personal experience, successes and failures.

To maximize value, one can approach ecosystem development in three steps:

1. Discover & map the ecosystem

2. Prioritize your focus on parts of the ecosystem

3. Plan & execute through actions and measure impact

Discovery and mapping the ecosystem can appear to be a daunting task. However, there are several traditional and contemporary tools one can use to better understand the network in which your product will compete.

The business model canvas is a good framework to use in conducting this exercise. I have tailored this for Web3 as there are slight nuances.

Why is this a good tool? Because it forces us to clearly define three key elements to success:

1. The Product

2. The end user (demand side)

3. The builders and partners (supply side)

The purpose of this document is to enable the team to contribute to a marketing strategy that enables us to achieve our business development and related goals, by executing a clear plan that is well resourced and predictable. Focusing question: What must be the marketing strategy of choice for to achieve <goals: e.g. greater visibility, adoption and attract talent>? Key lines of inquiry: What are the overall goals of for 2022-23? What would like to achieve from a targeted marketing strategy? For each of these objectives, who is the ideal target? <i.e To achieve these objectives, whose attention are we after? e.g. developers, current users, other projects, b2b partner decision makers etc> What does success look like if each of these objectives are achieved? How should we measure this success? <Recommendation, stay away from vanity metrics like twitter followers or discord size, focus on real metrics of adoption and participation> For each goal, where can we best reach these target audiences and how? (i.e. places or channels where we can find the target e.g. specific events, invitation based events like hackathons, spaces, DAOs or groups etc.) Which activities will we prioritize in 2022-23? (Target x Place x Action) Based on our current strengths and gaps, which activities can we do well and what resources do we require? What is the plan of action based on the strategy? Ecodev team can help your project develop a targeted plan. Just collect this and drop us a DM on @ecodev.eth for a quick chat! collect:// Does your project need b2b growth?

Ecosystem development is an important element to drive growth and adoption for web3 projects. The goal of ecosystem development for a web3 project is to attain sustainable critical mass as quickly as possible, with targeted efforts.

Ecosystem development is a combination of various tools that help a web3 project achieve this goal. This often includes broad based marketing, community engagement, developer engagement, end user experience and token dynamics and finally, targeted business development.

Each project is unique in its journey through product market fit chasm and the right tools at the right time, can help projects not just cross this chasm, but thrive. When successful, this means a more recognized brand, growing organic adoption and community participation, stronger project to project relationships (p2p) and business to project relationships (b2p).

I am sharing a few of tools and frameworks which have been developed based on personal experience, successes and failures.

To maximize value, one can approach ecosystem development in three steps:

1. Discover & map the ecosystem

2. Prioritize your focus on parts of the ecosystem

3. Plan & execute through actions and measure impact

Discovery and mapping the ecosystem can appear to be a daunting task. However, there are several traditional and contemporary tools one can use to better understand the network in which your product will compete.

The business model canvas is a good framework to use in conducting this exercise. I have tailored this for Web3 as there are slight nuances.

Why is this a good tool? Because it forces us to clearly define three key elements to success:

1. The Product

2. The end user (demand side)

3. The builders and partners (supply side)

The purpose of this document is to enable the team to contribute to a marketing strategy that enables us to achieve our business development and related goals, by executing a clear plan that is well resourced and predictable. Focusing question: What must be the marketing strategy of choice for to achieve <goals: e.g. greater visibility, adoption and attract talent>? Key lines of inquiry: What are the overall goals of for 2022-23? What would like to achieve from a targeted marketing strategy? For each of these objectives, who is the ideal target? <i.e To achieve these objectives, whose attention are we after? e.g. developers, current users, other projects, b2b partner decision makers etc> What does success look like if each of these objectives are achieved? How should we measure this success? <Recommendation, stay away from vanity metrics like twitter followers or discord size, focus on real metrics of adoption and participation> For each goal, where can we best reach these target audiences and how? (i.e. places or channels where we can find the target e.g. specific events, invitation based events like hackathons, spaces, DAOs or groups etc.) Which activities will we prioritize in 2022-23? (Target x Place x Action) Based on our current strengths and gaps, which activities can we do well and what resources do we require? What is the plan of action based on the strategy? Ecodev team can help your project develop a targeted plan. Just collect this and drop us a DM on @ecodev.eth for a quick chat! collect:// Does your project need b2b growth?