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Braintrust focused on product/market fit and network transactions before going into Ethereum mainnet. Many projects don't go further than a white paper whereas Braintrust built supply and demand early and then went through the process of bringing things on chain.

You have enough community members for chat to be counterproductive.

It’s different now, when brands can build their own communities on Instagram and Twitter, sell cases and subscriptions directly to consumers, and re-engage through text, e-mail, and Facebook ads.

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible

New tools empower players to create their own content in the form of mods/maps/items/game modes. UGC allows games to scale quickly and cost-effectively—rather than building everything in-house.

I believe in the second inning, network bonding curves will also increase the income disparity at a geometric rate: Transparency of the value of an individual to a network creates a ruthless meritocracy. Meritocracy is good for the most talented, motivated or lucky. But for the bottom 90%, everyone can now see that they rank in the bottom 90% in pe... See more

If ever there was a space growing fast enough to accommodate multiple winners, it is crypto. But though that dynamic means MetaMask won't fret too much about competition, the endemic nature of the blockchain makes switching to a new provider much simpler than it does in other industries. Because all of the data is stored on-chain, users can fairly ... See more

To grow its take rate significantly from here, Shopify would need to deliver a value it currently lacks: demand gen(-eration). I've written about the powerful combo of free software, marketplace services, and demand gen in my "business in a box" post a few weeks ago. Because 50% of e-commerce searches already start on Amazon, the incumbent has a hu... See more