sari
@sari
making Sublime — for you and for me.
sari
twitter.com
Unanchored - Epsilon Theory
epsilontheory.com
There's a natural book publishing model for Substack to mirror that of QQ Reading:
Start with a free newsletter. Each edition is a chapter. Readers can consume X chapters for free (high start %). Once reader gets to chapter Y, they pay to unlock ending:
https://a16z.com/2018/12/07/when-advertising-isnt-enough-multimodal-business-models-product-strategy/... See more
That was the big change. People had to wake up to the fact that it could be democratized. That’s why Stable Diffusion might end up amounting to nothing, but it will be one of the greatest products ever just because it will have changed so many people’s minds about what was possible.
Ben Thompson • An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the Democratization of AI
However, when you look inside at the actual cashflows of the creator’s business, the business may be more financeable than when viewed from the outside with blunt metrics and heuristics.
Connor Hale • Part 2: The Creative Economy and The Traditional Underwriting Model
ontextualizing information explains why you’ve earned or bought an artefact. Earning an NFT for a contribution to a project, for example, should provide context about why you earned it and what skills you demonstrated.
Scott Kominers • Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto
Trendy D2C brands will focus on brand affinity, repeat shopping, and lifestyle by building new experiences on top of credit cards. For example – a mid-tier Away Card for travel or an Infatuation Card for dining and exclusive access to restaurants
Alexander Cohen • Alex's Space
Now the question is: What will private traffic look like in the U.S.? I don’t know the answer yet because email marketing is still so prevalent. (And, yes, at least it works great.) But I do know that one-way blasts can’t compete with real-time, two-way messaging, especially when Gen Z’s on one end of the conversation.
Connie Chan • Why China’s Version of Email Marketing Is So Effective
