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Throughout history, a principal source of competitive advantage for businesses has been the ability to make tangible assets intangible. (i.e. to convert cash and inventory...
If you're reading this - you have likely been bombarded with web3 buzzwords. Like any emergent technology, there is an overwhelming amount of noise. For...
What do you get when you combine a permissionless financial system with permissionless intellectual property? Skin-in-the-game communities supporting businesses that experiment with new ways to get their IP out into the world.
Doing business on the internet is about convincing people you don't know that you have something they need or want. Think of a brand as the bridge between the two.
The title should perhaps read $58 — $1,000,000. $58. That was my business bank account balance in January of this 2020.
How to combine competence, curiosity, and character to create a category of one.
Expecting the people that care about you to care as much about your obscure obsession as you do is not going to help you.
Break the matrix so your time no longer has a linear relationship with your income.
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve." — Elon Musk
There are four ways to think about how value is perceived: Psychological, monetary, functional, and social.
They are all bridges that lead to building.
A sharp, short read by Nick Widmer on why NFTs are worth understanding.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to building a leveraged internet business, but there are principles that, once you see them, you can't unsee them.
The Art of Saying No
This article is about the transition from hustling your way to a few clients, to dialing in a product and buying your time back.
The eventual goal is to make your business your only client, and let it work.
One thing I think most people get fantastically wrong about the "creator economy" is the economics required to win for a long time. "Launch a product."...
I was flicking through Ogilvy on Advertising yesterday and stumbled upon the single page print ad that was written for "How to Win Friends and...
The world is changing quickly. YouTubers building larger distribution engines than cable networks. Trending posts on Reddit moving a security 10x upward in a day....
This is a full preview of the Executive Summary from Visualize Value's Build Once, Sell Twice. The techniques, strategies, and tactics I will be referring to...
A short story to explain how one sentence rewired my understanding of how the world actually works: A few years ago, I paid a small fortune...
Leverage allows you to accomplish 100x what others can – it is a force multiplier for your effort, skill, and judgement.
Guest author: Benjamin Anderson.The Daily Manifest in Visualize Value’s own words is — a distillation of the “best of” many different habit tracking apps, journal formats, coaches...
Guest Author: @alicellemee Welcome to Brain Dumps. Every week or so, I watch podcasts/shows/series that provide tons of value and fascinating ideas. I then compress the...
Guest Author: Polina Marinova Pompliano What distinguishes the great from the truly exceptional? After four years of writing The Profile, I've studied how the most successful and...
