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It’s easy to think that the Internet Age is well-established, but the truth is we’re only getting started. Remember, it took nearly two decades for the Model T to develop the car ecosystem to the point where new opportunities emerged to offer differentiated vehicles at much higher prices and much greater per-unit profit (Mercedes-Benz, for example,... See more

Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told... See more

Takeaway: A successful, scalable project should have an obvious problem and a robust solution, regardless of whether it is in the crypto industry.

This is just one of many drafts you can use, but the takeaways: Keep it simple, Keep it honest, Personalize, personalize, personalize. Again, your first 100 members are going to be brought on by processes that don’t scale: personalized outreach, 1:1 calls, personalized follow ups, personalized suggestions, personalized emails. Which brings us to

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Adobe, meanwhile, has already been partnering with a multitude of companies, including media orgs, on the Content Authenticity Initiative; this is a way to ascertain what images are originals, and which have been altered — you can check the veracity of an image on a dedicated website. All of this is built using cryptography and open source tools.... See more

When I go to crypto conferences, I like asking people I meet “in the present state of crypto or blockchains, what applications do you think are solving real-world problems? Problems that if you abstracted the crypto part away (because people are not going to use a crypto product just because it’s “decentralized”, they want convenience and won’t... See more