Mo Shafieeha

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which... See more

It makes sense to him to look at organizational design from a more practical perspective by referring to it as 'searching for form-context fit.' You can make small changes to your team or observe how changes percolate throughout the entire company. You just have to watch, try things out, and then reflect on what happens if you want to learn how to... See more

Pure Technology Innovation An excellent innovation thought experiment is the development of biomedical businesses because they eliminate a primary innovation dimension. In a two-dimensional space of companies, each point represents a problem. Technology is the x-axis, and problems are the y-axis. Innovative companies match technology to unsolved... See more

Having a hand in your success gives mentors pleasure since they've had a hand in it, and they want to know that their advice is helping you succeed. If you want good mentors, you should take their advice seriously and let them share in your success as well. If you don't see their advice making much of a difference, you cut them out of your life.

Abstraction offers another benefit: by sacrificing detail, the essence of your message becomes plausible, believable, and relatable. Good storytellers give us enough detail to see what they mean, but ensure those details are relatable enough to be relevant to the audience. Images and stories help us connect with bigger concepts. Airbnb's early work... See more

The Problem When Applied to DeFi dApps Even though DeFi is based on decentralized infrastructures (Ethereum), administrators can still tweak the code. It's common for companies to tweak code to get more transaction fees from Uniswap or Dy DX. Shareholders can leverage their negotiation power to get more value from the DeFi protocol when it grows... See more

1. Initial concept development/MVP This is the phase in which human-centered design exists. It is a discovery of a real problem people face in the real world, and we set out to solve it. For example, you may create an app to allow people to share rides. In order to launch your MVP, you design, test, and prototype it with potential customers.

Clarity of purpose Summarizes the company’s business on the back of a business card. Large markets Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop. Rich customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering.... See more

---------PROTOCOL LEADERSHIP Kain Warwick, Synthetix's former "benevolent dictator," recently explained a problem arising from the decentralized governance of Synthetix. Warwick recalls stepping away from his de facto leadership position and leaving the Spartan Council, a democratically elected body that approved Synthetix protocol changes and was... See more