6 easy ways to improve your next venture — The Business Model Canvas is famously the “ultimate” tool for business transformation. The “classical” canvas is however not perfect. Without knowing what it’s missing, entrepreneurs make major tactical mistakes Below are a few pointers to avoid this. 1. Strategy is not taken into account The canvas is missing is a section defining the start-up’s mission statement, to…

“Soulbound” tokens can fix crypto by focusing on real-world social links — NFTs are widely despised, and rightly so. They tend to promote over-capitalistic behaviors, they hurt the environment, they come from centralized entities that often outright lie about their value… the list goes on. Billions are however invested in the technology every year. While many of the ideas conjured today are…

Finding Web3’s Soul via a decentralized society — We are connected in a thousand different and non-transactional ways, and our tech needs to reflect it. Web3 came to be because of a lack of social links🔗. To reach wide-spread adoption, it needs to reinforce these links💪, not erode them. This is where “soulbound” NFTs come in. This type…

The technology isn’t looking for meaning… you are — I have written at length about Web3 over the past few years. For some context, it was birthed by the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Silicon Valley/Wall Street’s war of influence over the economy. First came the creation of cryptocurrencies. Since no one wants to accept BTC or ETH…

DAOs are new, cool… and dangerous — I rather like DAOs💖. They borrow their core principles from organizational theory, and have pushed forward interesting ideas around self-organization and emergence. Yet, everything the crypto community touches turns to poison☠️. DAOs don’t work. Below are the (many) reasons why: 1. 💰Your pay is decided by your peers — members…

So simple, yet so hard — A million pompous Tweets don’t lie : Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Ok. Good. What now? Well, before AI can truly be called a democratised technology, we have to go beyond Silicon Valley startups and implement it within small/medium businesses and governments. And so we must ask ourselves…

A 2-minutes explainer — Cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are symptoms of a traditional system that failed to deliver on its promises. Proponents of these technologies see them as cultural shifts and have coalesced into online communities embracing transparency and decentralization. These communities shouldn’t replicate current organizations. That wouldn’t be in line with Web3’s…

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are hot, and getting hotter — Cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are symptoms of a traditional system that failed to deliver on its promises. Proponents of these technologies see them as cultural shifts and have coalesced into online communities embracing transparency and decentralization. They’ve decided that, obviously, these communities should not replicate current organizations, opaque and…

I went through the entrepreneur’s presentation so you wouldn’t have to — Web3, I hardly knew ye. Jack Dorsey’s new company, TBD, recently announced its intent to create “web5”. It explained it as “a new evolution of the Web that enables decentralized apps and protocols.” Fear not, you didn’t miss Web4 passing us by. TBD’s idea is to sum the best…