I’m writing a book! The title is not yet final, but I think it will be somewhere along the lines of: “Founder Freedom: Build a business that thrives even when…
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How to validate your market the lean way
Every startup founder that’s not living under a rock should know, by now, that they’re supposed to “validate their market”, though probably many aren’t entirely clear what it means. This…
How to make a pitch deck
For over a decade now, pitch decks have been a critical part of how startups pitch investors. But how can you make a pitch deck that guarantees you will get…
What you need to know about strategy to help your startup
“Strategy” sounds like something that larger companies do. Actually, most large companies have awful “strategies”. Most employees and even C-level execs don’t understand it beyond it being a slide in…
NFT "Bull" update, part 2
I’m still concerned about what happens next with “the NFT market”. BAYC FP is at 69 now. It only needs to drop a bit more for apes to start getting…
Is there a new NFT "bull" going on?
Are bull times back? Spoiler: no. But so where is all this market activity coming from? Prices ARE going up. Wtf is going on? Who is paying for all this?…
Saving the Amazon
Most NFT projects are about making money. Often, even those that claim to be about charity are really just leveraging the get-rich-quick meta of the last 2y. I’m helping launch…
Community
Let’s take down another sacred monster in the NFT space. Community. It’s the best of things, and it’s the worst of things. Mostly, the word is waved around as a…
Here’s how web3 transactional privacy impacts you
Ppl don’t really get how relevant transactional privacy is to them. The usual examples (political donations) seem a bit unusual. Let’s have some concrete examples everyone can understand, why YOU,…
NFT Royalties
Time to weigh into this royalties conversation. Yes, I have a different take than most. I think the whole conversation is based on false premises. Apologies to all the deep…