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- Derived products leverage network engagement and interactions to generate an asset that can be productized and monetized directly. These usually take the form of market intelligence or aggregated data products.
from The Marketplace Monetization Map: Complexity and Asymmetry by Sameer Singh
- When you just watch the game, it looks like you make decisions between extracting resources, investing in expansion, et cetera. By the way, that alone is a lesson that I think Starcraft players are already better at than a lot of people who end up getting MBAs
from The Observer Effect – Tobi Lütke by theobservereffect.org
- I am now making more money than I’ve ever made while developing open-source software for a community that I adore. Pinch me, I’m dreaming.
from I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! 🎉❤️ (How I Did It) by Caleb Porzio
- I think at least what this model does is it gives journalists that confidence in their own worth both intellectually with their ability and monetarily. [It makes you think], ‘Oh, I actually could be worth quite, quite a bit. My ideas are good.’ I think that we need that. I think we’ve been undervalued by both our employers and by politicians and by... See more
from Access Denied by Jacob Bogage
- meanwhile, email often frustrates me because there is TOO much time to polish, it feels like I can't just say what's on my mind and work things out, whatever I send feels "final" in some sense I really dislike
from L.M. Sacasas on Instant Messenger Over Instant Messenger by Uri Bram
- While some technologies have seen mainstream adoption, such as Hypertext, unfortunately, many others have not. The most popular publishing platforms, for example WordPress and Medium, choose to prioritize social features and ease-of-use while limiting the ability for authors to communicate using the dynamic features of the web.
from Communicating With Interactive Articles by distill.pub
- But though Patreon’s made significant progress toward its goal to “fund the creative class,” I think its business model is now under threat, specifically because most of the large social media platforms have realized that there’s real money to be made from taking a cut of subscriptions that are driven by their creators. Over the past few years, sev... See more
from Why Patreon’s business model is under threat by Simon Owens
But let’s turn around and look at those folks in the audience. It’s sobering to see what they’re actually doing. Consumers of culture have so many options to choose from—so what do they pick?
The brutal truth is that there’s an ocean of stuff out there, but consumers sip it with a narrow straw.
from The State of the Culture by Ted Gioia
- In the Information Age, only cities that repay their upkeep with a high quality of life will stay viable. People at a distance won’t be obligated to subsidize them.
from The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson