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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.