Maintenance fees / add-on services — some companies treat maintenance or add-on services as upsell revenue streams, but you can design a model where the product itself is free, or near-free, and you make your money from maintenance, support, or services. A classic example is open source companies.
Crypto tokens — this is an area that is very new a
A hunter-gatherer spent most of his day looking for game. Prolonged low-intensity work follow by a burst of intense chasing and hunting. Whereas a farmer puts in continuous work. Ideally, you want a balance of both to accumulate resources and provide protection in case the hunt fails. That said, “We have taken the farming style too far”
A corollary to this is that as governance has decayed and the focus of most VCs is on uprounds and markups, there has been a meaningful decay in strategy at many startups.
-Grow the Substack economy to help writers connect with the services they need to do their best work and build thriving publications, such as editing, design, insurance, and financing.