1/ Get a cup of coffee. In this thread, I'll walk you through the economics of an internet newsletter. If you want to start your own newsletter (or are just curious about what it takes to run one), this thread will give you some useful pointers.

A cool way to bootstrap a cooperative: package the business plan as a beautiful zine and sell 1,000 copies (doubling as memberships) for $100/ each.

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even if daos *can* be used for coops/participatory democracy/etc, nothing about the tech *guarantees* this — it's dangerous to conflate technological and sociopolitical progress & we should remember to tell the difference

There are some SaaS Founders that are just doomed to fail. And it's not because startups have a high failure rate. It's also not because they lack talent. It's because they just refuse to embrace Go-To-Market and are too much in love with building product.

Founding influencer is now on par with founding engineer. An influencer with an organic community can identify a problem, pair with a technologist, crowdfund a solution, and continuously communicate progress along the way. The community derisks the process of market discovery.

“But you can’t make any money doing that.” That sentence soon won’t make any sense. You can monetize most anything now, and it will only be more so in the near future.