Timour Kosters

@timourkosters

Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz

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What do people need to do to succeed? - DAOs are about coordination so think about what is effective coordination - How is authority delegated: empowering specific individuals with their roles and power - Values alignment. Recruiting right people in terms of skills but also vibe - Organic memes alignment. People spending the most time, - Mental and... See more

Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick

Common mistakes when using CAC and/or LTV: using revenue as a proxy for LTV, overestimating LTV when you don't have clear data, failing to take into account the time value of money, not segmenting users by paid vs. organic when doing the math.

Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition

By combining multiple works, kinds of work, and the creators’s contexts in one bundle, onchain records provide creators a format that reflects the multi-medium, multi-message, worldbuilding reality of releasing creative work today, while also creating a canonical record of that work’s existence.

Yancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore

To run a profitable and scalable business, you want LTV > CAC. Currently, w e have rising CACs and less scalable, measurable acquisition-and it's all happening in a recessionary market environment.

Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition

Brush up on the prior art: “We were intellectually excited about going down that path of this general space of software creation. So we spent a lot of time doing research. It was almost like being on a sabbatical, reading all this prior art of old computing pioneers, like Douglas Engelbart and Bill Atkinson , and even contemporaries, like Bre

First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit

DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters

Vitalik Buterin vitalik.ca

Tooling for DAOs and

Companies with poor unit economics found themselves propelled by aggressive venture dollars (which themselves were propelled by a low-interest-rate environment). Those companies then turned those dollars into aggressive customer acquisition. Until recently, the market rewarded growth at all costs.

Digital Native • Revisiting Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition

But over the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of clamoring for what comes next. Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Autonomous vehicles? Web3?

Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything

Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of

Ph.D Judith Blackstone • The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening

Buddhism and Meditation