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Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3 – Variant
- Most of the widely adopted products right now are extremely transactional - apps that help you exchange tokens for example. As Jesse Walden correctly points out, these products should commoditize their applications in order to drive more demand for their truly differentiated product, the underlying exchange.
from (Amazon) Prime time in web3 by Joey DeBruin
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- Given the history of why web1 became web2, what seems strange to me about web3 is that technologies like ethereum have been built with many of the same implicit trappings as web1. To make these technologies usable, the space is consolidating around… platforms. Again. People who will run servers for you, and iterate on the new functionality that eme... See more
from My First Impressions of Web3 by Moxie Marlinspike
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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
... See morefrom Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics - a16z crypto by Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)
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