Mo Shafieeha

Often, startups have a new product for which there are no competitors to benchmark against, says Michael Dearing, who ran pricing at eBay for many years. Technology companies don't have a finite supply of a product.

The price of a product is one of the most important decisions a company can make. LinkedIn's decision to bundle some seldom-used features as premium accounts generated an almost $250 million revenue stream. Startups often set their prices low to attract customers and never raise them again.

4. Create FOMO to drive word-of-mouth.Key questions: Does your product rely on UGC? Consider curating the early community. / Is your product innately social? Consider relying on existing users to invite new users.Instagram, Pinterest, and Clubhouse are examples of platforms that made their early communities exclusive. In another way, Robinhood and... See more

So, why is this model better than the legacy business model? Like legacy models, protocols aren't dominated by profit-seeking capital providers. By issuing protocol-specific governance tokens, they may also include users (supply-siders and demand-siders). So the real users get a say when token holders decide whether to charge transaction fees.

------------------------------------------------------------- Final words on metagovernance and governance in general I am optimistic about what metagovernance can bring to the crypto world and also to the human collaboration game. However, many concerns remain.

Principles of Organization Design

1. Free Yourself From the Past


2. Design With Knowledge of Your DNA

Retroactive airdrops New protocols are designed to incentivize users further, such as airdrops to spread awareness, foster ownership, or reward early adopters retroactively. As an example, Uniswap awarded the UNI token retroactively to all users.