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The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share t... See more

Curation is still important for brand and product discovery, but you don’t need to have a store to be an influential curator.

Payback Period on Customer Acquisition Costs (A+) At the Series A round, The Farmer’s Dog had payback on its customer acquisition costs in the very first order.

Journals rely on subsidies and subscriptions from institutional libraries, which pay enormous and growing costs to access articles. People outside of large institutions, without library subscriptions, are largely shut out from reading publicly funded academic research as well as reading the comments that reviewers have made on a paper. And despite ... See more

“We are all plugged into an infinite stream of data, updated continuously and delivered at light speed via a network of intelligent devices, embedded in every corner of our lives. Value has shifted from the output of our muscles to the output of our brains. Our knowledge is now our most important asset and the ability to deploy our attention is our... See more

Games are the next social network. Fortnite looks more like FB than it does a traditional shooter game. For many, the battle royale has become secondary to the party: ex: 11M people attended Fortnite’s live, in-game Marshmello concert earlier this year.