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Eliot Couvat suggested recently, social tokens enable crowdfunding-as-an-investment

Fandoms = community x autonomy x equity

I’ve long admired how streetwear brand Supreme has built a brand centered around hyper-exclusivity and downtown cool, to the point where consumers are willing to camp outside their stores and crash their websites.

'- “Publishing advances one bankruptcy at a time”– Robert Cottrell

But CloudKitchens is struggling to overcome early challenges, limiting how much it can take advantage of the crisis, at least in the U.S. Certain properties it has bought have turned out to be in worse shape than anticipated, making some of them unusable and sharply raising the costs of renovating others, say people with knowledge of the problems.

People are driven to contribute for a complex web of motivations, including a desire to create something from which the larger community would benefit as well as the sheer joy of practicing a craft at which they excel. People are inspired to contribute to crowdsourcing endeavors for similar motivations, though financial incentives also play a role,... See more

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare

A measure of success tied to a feeling rather than a number feels enlivening precisely because it’s about what makes you come alive rather than what you think people will want.