Sponsorship page: six ways to present it

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Every word on these pages was written by Claude as placeholder. It is there to show the shape, the ordering, and how much room each approach needs. None of it is Golda's voice and none of it should be copied forward. The numbers on option 3 are invented.
  1. The Letter

    One column, serif, reads like a person wrote it to you. Tiers are sentences, not a grid.

    The bet: for a first cohort with no track record, sincerity outperforms design. This is the closest thing to the phone call that already got $500.

  2. Named For What You Want

    Four cards, each named for the buyer's motive: Backer, Founder's stipend, Evangelist, Recruiter. Follows the MLH pattern where the tier name says which thing you are buying.

    The bet: people self select faster when the label matches their reason. Kills the Bronze/Silver problem where $200 reads as the loser tier.

  3. The Cohort Is The Pitch

    Counts and named teams lead. The ask is one calm block at the bottom, linking out to the real dashboard.

    The bet: proof first. Only aggregate counts would ever run live here. Team names and descriptions stay hand picked.

  4. Two Currencies

    Cash and in kind side by side as equal columns, with in kind priced into the same levels.

    The bet: half the sponsor list cannot write a check but can hand over an API, hosting, or hours. Putting that in a footnote loses them.

  5. Built From Real Pages

    Structure lifted from pages that actually raise money: the MLH hackathon organizer guide, MLH's own sponsor page, and the Python Software Foundation's tier ladder. Facts strip, stats bar, six reasons, who's behind it, three levels plus an individual tier, then an add-on menu.

    The bet: none of this is invented. Sponsors have seen this layout before and know how to buy from it. Sources are cited at the bottom of the page.

  6. Sponsor A Thing

    The stipend pool at the top, open to any amount from anyone, then a list of named parts of the program with a price each: demo day, kickoff week, the election, the shared dev environment, one team's legal formation, the cohort record. We say the sponsor's name when that thing happens.

    The bet: this is how IIW and DWeb Camp actually fund themselves and nobody pitches a product at either one. Real IIW numbers: welcome dinner $7,500, each lunch $3,750, opening circle $3,500, book of proceedings $1,000.

Open, whichever one you pick