Membership is almost always an effort to diversify revenue, and there are very few organizations that are wholly or almost wholly supported by membership revenue.
The takeout and delivery business needs to be rethought. I see two new popular paths emerging. They represent diametrically opposing views of this space.
Eventually, they may even gain leverage in this value chain and squeeze universities and other organizations out of it. Let’s remember these brands can go global to an extent no educational institution can.
The first domino is love + curiosity, directed both inwards and outwardsThis is critically important because if you approach the process with neediness – a need to prove yourself, assert yourself, anxiety, fear, etc – it'll leak out and sabotage things
Anyone who hasn’t stepped foot in one of these festivals might think “there’s no scarcity in digital art because you can right click save the jpeg.” But what the right clickers don’t get, is that this will be both technically and socially impossible in the metaverse, where digital art, avatars, land, etc. are all seamlessly tied to blockchain recei... See more
And clearly, there was a latent demand for people who wanted to own work from their favorite creators, and creators who wanted to sell things directly to their fans. That kind of combination was really potent.