Getting started
How to start a DAO with governance that works
The mistakes that haunt DAOs at year two are almost always made in week one.
Decide what governance controls
List every privileged function in your contracts. Whatever governance does not control, someone else does.
Set rules you can live with
Pick quorum, threshold and timelock values for two or three proposal classes and write them down publicly.
Wire the execution path first
Run a trivial proposal end to end before you need a real one. The first execution should never be an emergency.