The Startup Rookie Card is a digital collectible. You can think of a Startup Rookie Card as a better version of a Kickstarter crowdfund. In a Kickstarter, you as a supporter receive an initial reward for your support, but then that’s the end of your relationship with the company beyond future marketing emails.

As a Startup Rookie Card NFT holder, you will be identifiable to the issuing company at any point. This creates a way for the company to continue to add value to you as the holder. Additionally, the NFT is an asset that owners can choose to keep, trade, or sell at any point in time*.

Check out the full Startup Rookie Card concept paper for more detail.

*The Startup Rookie Card NFT is a digital collectible and does not represent ownership of Ostrich in any way, shape or form, and should not be considered a security.

Ostrich’s Startup Rookie Card will come with a number of tangible benefits including:

+  🎴 Ostrich NFT Rookie Card
+  🃏 Physical Ostrich Rookie Card*
+  🔒 Ledger Hardware Wallet* (Over a $150 value)
+  👑 Early access to new features on the Ostrich App
+  🗣 Access to monthly office hours with the Ostrich founders (initial 12 months)
+  🏆 Bragging rights with irrefutable proof you were an OG supporter of Ostrich
+  🤯 Future surprises

*Physical rookie cards and Ledger hardware wallets will require you to provide a name and physical address for us to ship to if you wish to redeem these benefits. Ledger wallets will only be shipped once the project has sold out.

There are 4 styles of the Ostrich Rookie Card which feature a different color Ostrich egg and a different background. In total there are 250 of each style and the distribution of the cards will be randomized.

At this time there is no benefit to having one version of the Ostrich Rookie Card over another nor is there currently a benefit to collecting all 4 styles.

The Ostrich Startup Rookie Card will cost $500 or 500 USDC and can be paid for using a debit card, credit card, or Ethereum/USDC.

Given the recent volatility in ETH, we have elected to price in dollars/USDC.

Our payment partner is Paper.xyz which is built on Stripe. For those without an NFT or cryptocurrency wallet, Paper.xyz will also create an account to store your NFT. At any time you can transfer the NFT to another wallet provider like Metamask, Ledger, or Coinbase Wallet.

If you aren’t familiar with the process of purchasing and owning/storing an NFT, the Ostrich team is happy to help you set up a wallet and train you on security best practices.

You can also buy an Ostrich Rookie Card on the secondary market from OpenSea.

Non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs, can be so many things…

What a horrible answer to that question, right?

At it’s core, an NFT acts as incontrovertible proof that you are the owner of something. You might well have heard about this in the context of artwork, such as Bored Apes or Doodles, but an NFT could equally represent ownership of something physical too.

In the context of the Ostrich Rookie Card, your NFT demonstrates that you are the owner of the digital rookie card, which bestows upon you certain rights (as detailed above).

If you are interested and want to dig deeper into what NFTs are, and what the myriad use cases can and will be, check out this article on ethereum.org, and take a look at some of Packy McCormack’s writing in his Not Boring archive.

Ostrich’s aim is to find and reward our first 1,000 true fans through the Startup Rookie Card, whilst blazing a trail for other early stage companies to issue their own SRCs, gathering support from their communities.

Our aim is to provide owners of the Ostrich Rookie Card with tremendous value over the long-term in the form of education, tangible benefits, and community. Ostrich will use proceeds from the sale to of the digital collectibles to fund operations.

Ostrich has an incentive to keep adding value as we have included a 10% royalty on secondary sales.

This means that the as the Startup Rookie Card becomes more valuable, and owners buy and sell their SRCs, Ostrich will generate revenue from secondary sales that will go to funding business operations.

Ostrich intends to add value back to Startup Rookie Card holders, which may manifest in the form of early access to new features, physical goods, status in the Ostrich App, exclusive access to the founding team, and more.

William Glass is Co-Founder & CEO of Ostrich. His expertise is in software sales having led sales teams at Gartner and helped open a new vertical market for AI Market research firm Remesh. Glass received a Fulbright Scholarship from the US State Department to Thailand and has his BA in international relations from Rollins College. As the only grandchild on both sides of his family, he feels a deep responsibility to take care of everyone financially as time goes on at the same time as starting his own family. Glass grew up in Alabama and now resides in Queens, New York.

Andrew Holliday is Co-Founder & COO of Ostrich. He grew up in England, returning to the US to play soccer at Rollins College. Andrew has previous entrepreneurial experience, making his first $10,000 from a photo montage business he created as an undergrad. He received his MBA from the University of Rochester, after which he learned about investing in and running early stage companies in two years at AEP Capital, a small family office. Andrew then moved to Houlihan Lokey, where he developed a deep understanding of company valuation and gained experience in leading remote teams. Andrew has seen his father become the family member his close relatives’ can rely on to manage their financial affairs, and is acutely aware of just how lucky they are as a family to have him to do that. Without him, things might look very different for the Hollidays! This concentration of expertise is one of the many issues he is aiming to address as a co-founder of Ostrich. Andrew is based in New York City.

Raul Martinez is our lead senior designer, artist, and UI/UX designer. His expertise is in creating simple, beautiful designs that create a seamless user experience. Having worked for many agencies and Multimedia projects Raul is experienced in wearing many hats and has experience designing everything from websites, NFTs, and marketing materials, to mobile app UI/UX design. Additionally, Raul originally hails from Colombia and resides in Jacksonville, Florida.