Thank you for voting in the CPG Awards, Spring 2023 and helping to decide which of the 12 CPG Accelerator finalists take home a portion of $25K in cash prizes.

Session 2: Growth group Crypto Packaged Goods is proud to present Pitch Week: the CPG Accelerator’s culmination of almost three months of intensive work that has helped over 100 startups propel their businesses forward. Now, 42 of those startups across three different stages, Ideation, Building, and Growth, are ready to present their business concepts to our distinguished panel of investors. Watch to learn, and watch to cheer on your colleagues over two exciting days. Twelve finalists will move on to the Finale on Monday, May 22, when voting opens for the community to award $25K in cash prizes. Details for voting and watching the Pitch Show Finale will be released separately.

Learn more: https://cryptopackagedgoods.com/

Start your engines! Here’s all the latest on CPG Accelerator and the pre-Accelerator program... → Click to view Notion for the key dates for both programs! → The pre-Accelerator program starts next week! It will run until the beginning of March, when the full Accelerator launches. We have 41 registrations … and counting. Lets go! 🔥 → There is still time to register here (https://vr1puofpf3d.typeform.com/pre-accelerator), just make sure you get it in before EOD WEDNESDAY JAN 11. After this date you can still join the sessions, but not join a Mastermind Group. → Our first pre-A session is 1PM ET / 10am PT / 6pm GMT / 5am AEDT next TUESDAY JAN 17, and we are kicking things off with Planning and Goal Setting for 2023. Can't make it live? No problem! It will be recorded. → Participants in the goal setting session can submit their goals and CPG will share and tag you on Twitter to get engagement going and provide exposure. → Attendees of pre-A sessions will receive POAPs linked to CPG Rewards and credit towards CPG Certified. → The current Mastermind Groups will be archived after this week, but never fear, after registrations close we will be assigning everyone to new Mastermind Groups based on project stage, and the preferences you provided when you registered. → Applications for the CPG Accelerator (MAR-MAY 2023) will open by the end of January. There will be rolling acceptances between JAN-MARCH 2023.

Genius Call #17: Fireside Chat & Q+A with Brenden Mulligan, Founder of PREMINT Tuesday 13 Dec @1pm, PT In this genius call, we will hear from Brenden on a variety of topics including: building tools & platforms for creators, the do’s & don'ts of launching NFT projects, using user feedback to evolve the product, insights from building a web3 startup (including using PREMINT as a minting platform for Cockpunch!), PREMINT + Vulcan and much more. Brenden is the founder of PREMINT, the web3 allowlist platform used by over 3 million collectors, who have registered over 40 million times for some of the hottest NFT projects and artists, including XCOPY, Moonbirds & Ledger. Twitter: https://twitter.com/mulligan

This was the first Pearl Space hosted by POAP, Pearl and GitPOAP. Thank you for joining the discussion about web3 social graphs and how builders can leverage them.