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It solves the problem of creators profiting from the subsequent use of their work

If your DAO tool is a protocol (i.e., smart contracts deployed to a blockchain network), the obvious business model is an on-chain transaction fee. But most DAO tools are just UIs that write to a database. For the latter, there aren’t clear business models yet.

The lack of top down editorial oversight resulted in uneven development of Wikipedia's articles, oftentimes with stark examples: The biography of Britney Spears takes up nearly twice the space as the one for Socrates.

That’s where Curated comes in: it’s an expert-driven commerce platform that leverages category experts to guide shoppers to the right products. Today, it’s focused on adventure sports like skiing, cycling, golf, fishing, and camping and hiking, but has an expansive future plan encompassing all specialty retail categories.

We are fundamentally lazy and as such, increasingly the most valuable products or businesses in the world are predicated on reducing that cognitive friction and making those choices for us. But beyond that, we are also fundamentally happier being in a group than out on our own. So more than just being useful then, the top 10 list, I suspect, is fun... See more