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Customers are uncertain in a downturn. When customers are uncertain, they should be more willing to pay a premium for certainty.

An encyclopedia is an attempt to summarize all knowledge. It is focused on giving factual explanations and descriptions of various things. It doesn’t go too in depth, and it doesn’t allow for opinion. The popular web equivalent is Wikipedia which allows anyone to contribute their knowledge on any subject.

It’s easy to understand why crafty brands suddenly have so much appeal right now: with the boundaries between work and life becoming extremely blurred, people are seeking ways to put a full stop at the end of their working day. Activities that don’t require a screen – or, even better, stop you from being able to reach for your phone – have been on ... See more

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.

But these examples aren’t quite what I’m aiming for. I want something smaller, more intimate, more regular. Not meeting someone you like and only managing to run into them once every three months, but creating regular, meaningful connections.

Santos, dark-haired and so striking-looking one website referred to him as “the brains (and beauty)” behind the operation, was the CEO. Nathan, who had a shaved head, sometimes with a beard, was the chairman. They started the company with $400.

Naval: "An NFT is not really an object, a digital object. It is a pointer, it is a channel, it is a link, communication between you, the creator, and the community, and any kind of value can be funneled down that."

I feel like a lot of founders forget that everything big starts small.