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For example, we value traditional companies based on assets and cash flows. Companies with more capital – or expected ability to absorb more capital in the future – are ideally valued more highly than others.That isn’t the case for every organization. Jacob Horne argues in his essay on “Hyperstructures” that crypto protocols built with certain trai... See more

In other words, companies are valuable when they continuously extract value for shareholders. Protocols are valuable when they continuously create value for the public. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1492780094/19098815... See more

Growth for Web3 companiesHow does your Web3 product scale?You can break this problem statement down to four core questions that you need to answer so you can lay down the foundational pieces of our growth model:How do we acquire?Lattice Capital did a great breakdown of the current proven ways Web3 companies can start framing their acquisition strat... See more

 How do you “go to market” and convince potential customers to spend their money, time, and attention on your product or service? The response by most organizations in web2 — the Internet era defined by large centralized products/services like Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Twitter, in which the vast majority of value accrues to

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So far, this post has focused almost exclusively on tokens’ ability to capture value by generating income streams for their holders. They are productive capital assets. This may very well be sufficient to value most tokens in the long-run. Equity-like analysis will do the trick here. Think DCF and DDM.

However, valuing tokens based on cash flows rem... See more