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Arena Ownership
Own a VentureStaking® Arena
Own the venture discovery layer for a city, sector, or community — a protected territory where founders are prepared, evaluated, and surfaced. Arena Owners design the Arena. The crowd decides outcomes.
This is a franchise-level, institution-building opportunity
Doriot Arenas are designed to become the default venture discovery institution in their territory — the place where founders are made investable, where signal is produced, and where the next generation of venture outcomes first becomes visible. This is not an event series. It is infrastructure ownership.
Institutional Position
Become the recognized on-ramp for founders, investors, universities, corporates, and civic stakeholders. Your Arena becomes a permanent coordination layer — not a temporary program.
Signal Ownership
Own the pipeline that turns local noise into investable signal: eligibility standards, preparation, and a repeatable system that surfaces credible founders to the crowd.
Legacy & Cultural Gravity
Become the steward of founder history in your territory: who emerged, from where, and why. This is the venture institution people reference a decade later.
Territory Ownership
One Arena per territory. No duplicates. If you hold the charter, you hold the platform. This is scarcity with structural enforcement.
Founder Hall of Fame
An official public record of Arena alumni: “who came from where” becomes part of the League’s history. Your Arena becomes a source of founder mythology.
Global Owners’ Table
Annual closed-door conference and League recognition for the most innovative Arena Owners worldwide. This is status through stewardship and performance — not proximity.
What Arena Owners do
Set readiness standards: who is eligible to pitch in the Arena.
Operate education, coaching, and studio pathways that make founders investable.
Become the default on-ramp for founders, investors, institutions, and civic stakeholders.
Build local trust + global visibility under League governance.
What Arena Owners do not do
Arena Owners do not allocate grants or "pick winners." Founders are approved to pitch based on legitimacy and readiness, but grant decisions are made by the crowd.
Governance Principle
Arena Owners design the Arena. The crowd decides outcomes. This separation preserves trust and scales signal.
Immediate Revenue
7.5% royalty on all VentureStaking grants issued within your Arena
Licensing of Doriot education programs including QAI and The Venture Game
100% of sponsorships, swag, and live events
These are near-term cash flows that scale with venture activity — not with exits.
Downstream Services
Venture studio services for grantees (paid with founder grant funds)
Entrepreneurial + business-building coaching
Optional: launch an early-stage venture fund to support Arena-discovered founders
The Arena becomes a durable services platform that improves founder outcomes and expands the territory’s venture capacity.
Unlimited Donor Capacity
VentureStaking contributions are tax deductible, making donor capacity effectively uncapped. More contributions → more discovery → more grants → more Arena economics.
Ownership upside
Earn equity in the Capital Creation Cooperative via stewardship and performance.
Capture 100% of the equity value of your Arena.
Doriot will honor third-party Arena sales, subject to objective League integrity criteria.
Global League access
Your seat at the table: owners' governance, standards, and expansion.
Annual Global Conference (closed-door) + cross-Arena intelligence.
Annual recognition: most innovative Arenas and Owners worldwide.
Scarce. Sovereign. Selective.
One Arena per territory. No duplicate ownership. Approval rates expected to be low. This is a co-ed league by design — selection is based on stewardship, credibility, and execution.
Core Line
Arenas are venture franchises — owned by the people closest to the frontier.
Strong applicants demonstrate real-world capability to build a durable institution — not just ambition.
Local Legitimacy
Letters of support from business associations, chambers, economic development groups, and anchor institutions.
Founding Bench
A plan to onboard 500 Founding VentureStakers in your territory.
Operational Readiness
Team capacity, education delivery, activation cadence, and governance alignment.
League Traditions (Status That Compounds)
Founder Hall of Fame: alumni, origins, breakout stories
Annual League Awards: most innovative Arena Owners + breakthrough Arenas
Annual Global Conference: private owners’ table + strategic agenda
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