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10k @ $10 / yr — Gig economy: e-books, drop shipping, transactional gigs

I’ve always been a severe perfectionist, but WBW brings together a special cocktail of elements that exacerbate this problem to a ridiculous degree. For one, blog posts are one of those terrible matches for a perfectionist, because no matter what you’ve done, they can  always  be improved. I could spend a year on a post and it would still have

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But centralization absolutely does limit the number of big ‘winners.’ The omnipresent power law skews value relentlessly to the top. We see this across top companies, investors, creators, influencers and beyond. The more centralized the platform or business, the more this tendency proves true.

“We can’t rest on our laurels. We believe the market we’re going after is audio. That adds up to 2-3 billion people around the world who want to consume some sort of audio content on a daily or weekly basis. If we’re going to win that market, we’d have to be at least a third of it. We have somewhere between 10-15x of where we are now of opportunity... See more

C2M should be focused on niche demand aggregation, where the demand is clearly present but difficult from a manufacturer’s perspective to detect within the market.

“I want to create the most eccentric brand of tech that people just shake their heads about like, ‘What are they doing now?’” he said. “I want to go after extremely ambitious projects people aren’t doing that we have the technology to pull off. I want to do those kind of projects back to back.”

1) Commerce: Broadly defined in this context as any model in which a content creator profits from driving transactional behavior rather than merely stoking an intent to buy.