# DAOs & Creators: Resources to Get Started Today

By [Kinjal](https://paragraph.com/@kinjal) · 2021-05-17

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_dive into the deep end_

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### DAO 101

*   [A Beginner's Guide to DAOs](https://linda.mirror.xyz/Vh8K4leCGEO06_qSGx-vS5lvgUqhqkCz9ut81WwCP2o)
    
*   [Everything You Need to Know about DAOs](https://foundation.app/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-daos)
    
*   [DAOs, DACs, DAs, and more](https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/)
    
*   [An Introduction to DAOs](https://medium.com/metawork/an-introduction-to-daos-782e3817e2cd)
    
*   [The DAO of DAOs](https://www.notboring.co/p/the-dao-of-daos)
    

### Why DAOs

*   [Crypto Commons](https://blog.usejournal.com/crypto-commons-da602fb98138)
    
*   [Power to the Person](https://www.notboring.co/p/power-to-the-person)
    
*   [The Ownership Economy](https://variant.fund/the-ownership-economy-crypto-and-consumer-software/)
    
*   [DAOs of Tomorrow](https://twitter.com/albiverse/status/1372263045842485257)
    
*   [NFT Value Capture Equation](https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/A16NP2XXi9RdHptfdF9WHR0Xq_E1XDmUgMwPmJYOG7w)
    

### Governance

*   [Blockchain Governance](https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74)
    
*   [How do we make Decentralized Decisions](https://medium.com/the-caring-network-company/how-we-make-decentralized-decisions-ad869417b772)
    
*   [The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy](https://t.co/vLCznqP1Lv?amp=1)
    
*   [On-chain Vote-Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs](https://hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying/)
    
*   [Life of a Protocol Politician](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-life-of-a-protocol-politician)
    

### Treasuries / Monetization

*   [Unlocking the Treasury](https://sukernik.medium.com/unlocking-the-treasury-483aeea01001)
    
*   [The Future of On-Chain Treasury Management](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-daos-should-approach-treasury)
    
*   [A Crisis in Protocol Treasury Management](https://messari.io/article/a-crisis-in-protocol-treasury-management-and-how-to-solve-it?utm_source=robertotalamas&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=protocol-treasury-manangement)
    
*   [A Media Ownership Model](https://darkstar.mirror.xyz/8p0qPpLDPNkV6Bb4ObfSCdR2PKAN0Gz9tWTnGq7ikRY)
    
*   [The Rise of Micro-economies](https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/gWY6Kfebs9wHdfoZZswfiLTBVzfKiyFaIwNf2q8JpgI)
    
*   [The Creator Attribution Ratio](https://creativekitchen.so/penguins/The-current-NFT-debate-is-a-false-choice-tIATu)
    
*   [Exploring the Social Token Revolution](https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-exploring-the-social-token-revolution)
    

### Creators & the Future of Work

*   [NFTs and the Future of Work](https://www.drorpoleg.com/nfts-and-the-future-of-work/)
    
*   [Blockchains Unlock Institutions with Internet Scale](https://medium.com/blockchain-capital-blog/blockchains-unlock-institutions-with-internet-scale-b5af9d930e1e)
    
*   [Slow Death of the Firm](https://thecontrol.co/the-slow-death-of-the-firm-1bd6cc81286b)
    
*   [Crypto’s Creator Model](https://medium.com/blockchain-capital-blog/cryptos-creator-model-bee11024336b)
    
*   [1000 true fans? Try 100](https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/)
    

### How to "DAO"

*   [How to create a DAOs](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-create-a-bankless-dao)
    
*   [Tips for Creators getting into Crypto](https://p.mirror.xyz/WQQywdjjfnksMRPMaNKBMxPBqfE5k8nL6pCLe1roGyw)
    
*   [How to Structure a Protocol's Treasury](https://shreyashariharan.com/2021/03/14/how-to-structure-a-protocols-treasury/)
    
*   [Come for the creator, stay for the economy](https://p.mirror.xyz/1EpvJwUpx_KlRcHOKLNqADEkwHL_Z1ZYKobF2uLwgBg)
    
*   [Governance Legos](https://medium.com/tally-blog/governance-legos-6559f2234a3a)
    

### Analytics

*   [DeepDAO](https://deepdao.io/#/deepdao/dashboard)
    
*   [Tally Governance Dashboards](https://www.withtally.com/)
    

### Publications / Newsletters

*   [Darkstar](https://darkstar.mirror.xyz/)
    
*   [Albi's Newsletter](https://albiverse.blog/)
    
*   [Forefront](https://forefront.market/newsletter)
    
*   [Crypto X Creator Economy](https://p.mirror.xyz/)
    
*   [Woong Joon Ian’s Pacenotes](https://medium.com/@joonian)
    
*   [Stateless](https://stateless.boardroom.info/)
    
*   [Gardens](https://gardens.substack.com/)
    
*   [Monkey with a Typewriter](https://frogmonkee.substack.com/)
    

### Additional DAO Resource Lists

*   [DAO Tools & Resources](https://www.notion.so/DAO-Tools-and-Resources-cecc1368c32041fc89515a63f00bae28)
    
*   [Not Boring DAO Links](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oBMUWawlRcVFYwGXsC5UDrcET3VSXZ_bGAHCViWx8-g/edit)
    
*   [DAO Creation & Design](https://daotalk.org/t/resource-list-dao-creation-design/522)
    
*   [Awesome DAOs](https://github.com/DAOresearch/awesome-daos/blob/master/README.md)
    
*   [DAO Legal Resources](https://hackmd.io/@LinXule/BywFKmp6L)
    
*   [a16z NFT Canon](https://a16z.com/2021/04/02/nfts-readings-resources/)
    
*   [House of DAOs](https://wiki.metagame.wtf/docs/great-houses/house-of-daos)
    
*   [Best DAO Tools](https://app.yup.io/collections/best-dao-tools/YBdtqHg)
    

_Please let me know if I'm missing any key resources at @\_kinjalbshah; will update the list periodically_

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*Originally published on [Kinjal](https://paragraph.com/@kinjal/daos-creators-resources-to-get-started-today)*