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NFTs have been making headlines, but they are more than their use-case trends.Like many blockchain technologies, NFTs can be considered solutions in search of a problem. With behavioral design and consumer motivations driving the innovation space, we’re seeing a rising interest around which innovation challenges could be solved using NFTs. Here’s... See more

Remember the membership description in your community strategy doc? The first 100 members in your community are key. Why? They will overwhelmingly set the tone for the community (another part of your doc!) and play a pivotal role in how it grows. The first 100 are the seeds of your community’s garden — how you plant them is very important.

A subtext to last week’s article, Tech’s Two Philosophies, was the idea that there is a difference between Aggregators and Platforms; this was the key section:It is no accident that Apple and Microsoft, the two “bicycle of the mind” companies, were founded only a year apart, and for decades had broadly similar business models: sure, Microsoft... See more

Over time, though, the Model T was very much a victim of its own success: by massively expanding the market for cars and triggering the development of car-friendly infrastructure, Ford created openings for other car manufacturers that previously didn’t exist. A company like General Motors didn’t need to compete with Ford by building a Model T clone... See more

I share Professor Clayton Christensen’s consternation about the overuse of the term “disruption.” In this month’s issue of the Harvard Business Review, Christensen and his co-authors Michael Raynor and Rory McDonald write:Disruption theory is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. Despite broad dissemination, the theory’s core concepts... See more

Investing in NFTs is like investing in a startup, you have to do your work, and even so, it may fail.