- 12 Things the Crypto Industry Needs to Get Right
- A Critical Perspective on Ethereum: Too Much Tinkering
- What The Blockchain Industry Can Learn From the Popularity of Artificial Intelligence
- How Will Crypto Wallets Lead Us To The Wild World of Blockchain Apps?
- Formal Disclosures Are Coming to Token-based Projects and Protocols
- The Race to Change the SEC Course and Some Breakthrough Scenarios
- To Change the Rules or Not, That is the Question
- Could Decentralized Protocols Disclose their Performance Autonomously?
- The Writing is on Wall: The SEC is Unfit to Regulate Cryptocurrency
- Terrible Tuesday, Whimper Wednesday, Terrific Thursday: A Week to Remember in Crypto Regulation
- Why Eighty-One Cryptocurrency Bills? US Congress Just Needs One
- Cryptocurrency Is Not Napster
- How the SEC Could Easily Regulate Crypto
- The SEC is Not Being Straight with the Crypto Industry
- US Policy on Cryptocurrency Is Lopsided: It is Solely Focused on Mitigating Risks while Suffocating Innovation, Leadership and Growth
- Can The Crypto Industry Fix Itself?
- What’s Wrong In The Blockchain Industry
- European Regulators Are Potentially Getting Us Closer to Web3
- How to Stay Focused in Blockchain and Crypto
- Whither Blockchain 2.0?
- Exchanges Don’t Matter
- What Type of Investors Does Crypto Need?
- Bad Actors or Failures Do Not Define The Crypto Industry
- We Need to Let Crypto Come Out of The Closet
- Understanding Why Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Keep Bashing Bitcoin And What I Wished They Should Have Said
- Picking Apart the State of Blockchain, And Have We Earned It?
- Gaining Perspective While Losing Capital
- There is no Web3…Until There is One.
- The Elusive Value-to-Usage Linkage in Cryptocurrency Market Valuations
- How Will DeFi Enter the Mainstream?
- Ethereum’s Anniversary Is As Distributed As Its Technology
- Publishing in the Decentralized World
- Introducing $WAM, my Social Money Experiment
- Decentralized Autonomous Associations (DAAs): A Variation on the DAO Concept
- The Blockchain Doesn't Solve Anything About the Coronavirus
- Reflections in Times of Crisis- This Global Pandemic
- Re-launching OnCoins.org as the Techmeme of Crypto/Blockchain News
- Cryptocurrency Needs to Go Mainstream
- Friday March 13 2020, AKA The Morning-After
- Let's Be Clear About What is DAOable and What is Not.
- The Benefits of Higher Crypto Market Prices
- Let's Imagine. What if Plaid Was Acquired by a Blockchain Company?
- The Importance of Owning Your Narrative – Lessons from Carlos Ghosn
- There Is a Need to Modernize SEC Securities Laws For The Blockchain
- Moving to Decentralized Platforms Just Became a Lot Easier
- Why Ethereum’s Churn is Normal and the Chinese Bamboo Tree Analogy
- Pulse, Impact and Breadth (PIB): A Simple Framework of Metrics for Evaluating Cryptocurrencies and Tokens
- On Startups Attacking Small vs. Big Problems
- On The Decision to Hire a PR Agency vs. Pitching the Media Internally
- Don't Fight Current Intermediaries with Blockchain Products, Circumvent Them Instead
- Superficial Regulation Is Key Cause for Cryptocurrency Scams, Thefts and Lawsuits
- Kik's Response to the SEC Underscores The High Price of Regulatory Clarity
- Is Reg A+ Ideal for ICOs? Not So Fast: Exceptions Don't Make Rules.
- Taking Back Our Privacy One App at a Time: Introducing the Privacy-Minded E-Commerce Mobile App, Haven
- Critical Thoughts on Ethereum's Unbundling, Stack and Marketing
- It's Official: Political Fear-Mongering Added to Regulatory Uncertainty in Cryptocurrency Are Hurting US Blockchain Companies
- Thoughts and Recommendations on the Facebook Libra Congressional Hearings
- A Who's Who in The Fight for Better Blockchain Regulation in the US
- What will move the blockchain to the masses? A trillion dollar question.
- Can the Industry Come Together to Influence the SEC? It's Time to "Defend Crypto Now".
- The Six Lives of A Token and Why Simplicity Wins Understanding and Change
- Curating the Token Summit IV to Look Forward, Not Behind
- How Ethereum Could Evolve
- The SEC Framework for Investment Contract Analysis of Digital Assets
- For The Future Sake of Tokens and Cryptocurrency, Did The SEC Just Blink?
- What Incentives Will Push Users to Move to Decentralized Applications?
- Announcing Token Summit IV in New York May 16 2019
- The Consumer-to-Blockchain Paid Model Is Coming
- 28 (Tougher) Questions for the SEC on Blockchain Regulation
- The Privacy Apps Are Coming, With and Without The Blockchain
- Marketing Strategies and Practices for Blockchain Projects and Startups
- Unpacking Decentralized Governance in the Blockchain Era
- Revisiting "Do No Harm" for Blockchain Regulation: Missing in Action
- Will The Blockchain Industry Sort Itself Out in 2019 or 2020?
- Unstoppable P2P Networks: A Key Blockchain Promise We Must Keep
- Some Harsh Advice for the Blockchain Industry
- The Future of ICOs and the Road Ahead: One Step Forward, One Step Back
- Re-Classifying Blockchain Tokens for Simplicity
- In The Aftermath of Down Markets, What Can We Learn?
- The Blockchain’s Magical Million Users Club
- 6 Blockchain-based Innovations…or Loopholes?
- The Long (Blockchain) Crash
- The Blockchain's Strategic Calling: What Is It?
- Utility vs. Security Tokens: Why Not Both?
- The Self-Effacing Globally Decentralized Organization
- Challenges and Friction in Crypto Land
- Where Are All The Cryptocurrency Custody Solutions?
- A Guide for Blockchain Usage Metrics
- Where Are All The Decentralized Applications?
- Two Videos and a Podcast on Blockchains, Tokens and Decentralization
- What I Said and Didn't Say: Setting the Record Straight After Media Distorts Your Messages
- State of the Token Market (with PDF)
- The Wrong Way to Understand Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain
- Cryptocurrency, Tokens and Blockchains: Is There A New Normal?
- The Blockchain Union
- My 2018 New Year's Resolution: Let's Revisit the Blockchain's Fundamentals
- 13 Questions for the Blockchain as We Enter 2018
- On Tokens 1.0 vs. Tokens 2.0 and Fundamental Blockchain Innovations
- From Waterloo to Zug, Retracing Ethereum's Journey
- Announcing The Next 2 Token Summits: San Francisco and New York
- The Global Token Awareness Initiative
- Announcing WMX, the William Mougayar High Growth Cryptoassets Index
- Introducing Token Awareness in Canada
- Dear OSC and CSA Open Letter, Re: Tokens Regulation in Canada
- The China Effect on Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies Future
- The Who's Who List In ICO Service Providers
- The Other Flippening: Token Users vs. Token Traders
- Safe ICO Practices (SIP)
- 10 Things I Don’t Like About ICOs
- ICOs are Like Startups, but Advisors are Not Like Mentors
- Introducing Token Filings, a Transparency Directory for ICOs and Token Sales
- 30 Blockchain Videos on a YouTube Channel
- The Crowd is Always Right: ICOs, Regulation and Crypto Wallets in Your App
- A Token is Not a Short Term Carrot, Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe
- My Opening Token Summit Talk (video) and Updating the Cryptoassets Reality Quadricle
- Has ICO Cryptocapital Exceeded Early Stage Venture Capital Funding? Yes.
- The Reality Quadrant in ICO Projects and Token Sales (Part II)
- Raising Tokens to Build a Company or an Ecosystem?
- Thoughts on the Bancor Token Sale and Permissionless Innovation
- Tokenomics – A Business Guide to Token Usage, Utility and Value
- The Ultimate Reading List for Blockchain, Token and Cryptocurrency Sources
- The Blockchain Needs More Failures To Grow and Mature
- The Darkness Side and Long Honeymoons of Token Sales (Part I)
- Where I Will Be Speaking in the Next Months: Houston, Indianapolis, Munich, Paris, New York & New York
- There is Hope for Blockchain Regulation, Thanks to General Georges Doriot
- Token Summit: Adding 9 New Speakers and NYU Stern Venue Location
- Announcing the Token Summit, First Dedicated Event Discussing in-Depth the Token Economy
- The Ultimate List of ICO Resources: 18 Websites That Track Initial Cryptocurrency Offerings
- The Ethereum Ecosystem is Strong and Getting Stronger
- Watch Out, the ICOs Are Coming
- The Blockchain is Still Waiting for its Web, Here is a Blueprint for Getting us There
- How to Simply Explain the Business Implications of The Blockchain to the Masses
- Blockchain Reflections for 2017: Do We Know What We Don't Know?
- Cryptocurrency Will Re-Fuel the Attention Economy, Get Ready
- Blockchains in the Mainstream and Marketing the Decentralized Paradigm
- State of Global Blockchain Consortia with Interactive Map
- DAO's: Automating Governance or Operations?
- How to Evaluate an Initial Cryptocurrency Offering (ICO)
- Announcing The Audible Version of The Business Blockchain Book
- The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy [Steemfest Video]
- Why Are We Still Using Cheques?
- Large Companies Need an Innovation Culture, not an Innovation Department
- How Many Blockchain Identities Will We Have?
- Blockchain in Insurance
- (Re)-Explaining the Blockchain in One Slide
- The Best Leadership Is Having The Right Person At The Right Time
- Understanding Semi-private Blockchain Applications
- Committing to Daily Blogging, A Not So Easy Pledge
- How Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain-based Startups Are Turning The Traditional Venture Capital Model on Its Head
- How Blockchain Applications Will Get Deployed
- Explaining the Blockchain via a Google Docs Analogy
- The Next Phase of the Blockchain is About Business and Innovation
- The Relationship Between Cryptocurrency Tokens, Value and Work
- Blockchain Security is Multi-Layered, Here are the 6 Most Important Levels
- The Theory of a Blockchain Circular Economy and the Future of Work
- Why Blockchain Innovation is Hard for Big Companies and Easier for Startups
- Public Blockchains: The Community vs. The Ecosystem
- A Personal Tribute to Alvin Toffler (1929-2016)
- What We Can Learn From the DAO Experiment, DAOs and Decentralized Governance
- Re-Decentralizing Content Attribution: My Investment in Mediachain
- The Promise of a Centerless World, OuiShare Video & Presentation
- Announcing the Availability of My Book, The Business Blockchain
- Moving the Toronto Business Blockchain Conference to Consensus 2016 in New York City
- My Girl Geeks Video Presentation on Blockchains: Why You Should Care
- Analyzing the Malaise in Tech Venture Capital: It's All About Adjustments
- Launching Two New Books on Kickstarter: The Business Blockchain and Centerless
- Moving the Conversation to the Business Blockchain: Announcing a Global Conference in Toronto
- Banks as Back-ends: The Decentralization Has Started
- Rethinking Regulation To Lag Innovation
- Why I'm Being Tough on the Banks Re: Blockchain
- Meta Webs: The Many Worlds of The Internet
- Blockchain Inside Regulations Is NOT Innovation
- My Epicenter Video Interview on Ethereum, Blockchain and Bitcoin
- Blockchain 2015: Strategic Analysis in Financial Services Slides Deck
- Why Blockchain is the New Website
- Blockchains and Security: Creating New Problems or Solving Existing Ones?
- Update to the Global Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services
- A Decision Tree for Blockchain Applications: Problems, Opportunities or Capabilities?
- Maximizing User Adoption by Understanding Behavioral Economics for Startups
- Communicating the Ethereum Narrative, DevCon1 Presentation
- Explaining the Blockchain's Impact via an Infographic
- Is the Blockchain an Alphabet Soup or a Full-Stack?
- The Global Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services
- The New New Age of Transparency: Ethereum's Case
- A Vibrant Startup Ecosystem Needs a Stream of Activities, Not Just a Burst of Events
- The Networks They Are A-Changin’
- Why Isn’t There a Bitcoin Global Bank Today?
- The Universe Will Try to Stop you from Building a Great Product. Don't let it.
- Small Bets vs. Big Bets: Another Take on Tech Bubbles Formation
- Revisiting Mentorship: Diversify your Mentors as you Grow your Startup
- The Digital Native Marketing Trap, Another Startup CEO Blindspot
- Bitcoin is Undergoing a Governance Crisis, not a Block Size Dilemma
- The Biggest Blindspot of a Startup CEO is Ignoring Their Brand
- Hosting Andy Sparks, COO of Mattermark in Toronto September 21st
- Warning: Unrealistic Valuations in the Bitcoin and Blockchain Space
- Startup Marketing Compendium of 12 Posts on Positioning, Branding, Messaging and more
- Why a Strong Brand Means Higher Growth and Better Valuation for your Startup
- Startups are like Patients. They Need Doctors and Hospitals.
- Dear Big Bank CEO, Re: Blockchains: Obliterate, don’t Automate
- The Old Cloud is Dead, Welcome to the New Blockchain Cloud
- Communicating Your Vision vs. Your Product
- OpenBazaar's Peer-to-Peer eCommerce Vision
- Announcing Super News Aggregator, OnCoins
- The Next 10 Years: 42 Macro Predictions in Cryptography, Blockchains and Consensus Protocols
- The New Startup Management Tag Page
- Reimagining the Internet's Third Decade
- The Noise in Availability and Differentiating Yourself
- You Don't Need a Perfect Tech Ecosystem, but You Need Many Parts to be Excellent
- Startup Mentoring Lessons: Blind Spots and Briefing your Mentors
- Value Creation and Movement with the Blockchain: The Easy, Difficult and Mysterious
- Disrupting by Owning Something: Can Cryptocurrency Do That?
- Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies: The Disconnect Between Developers and Users
- Focus Your Startup Marketing on the Mind, not the Product
- The Crypto-Technology and Bitcoin Landscape
- With Decentralization, Where is the Money?
- Forget Market Size, Think Problem Size
- 34 Quotes from Jim Rohn, a Great Startup Mentor
- Best Practices in Transparency and Reporting for Cryptocurrency Crowdsales
- Book Review, Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy
- The Bitcoin Startup Ecosystem is Frail: Beware of the Next Crash
- An Operational Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
- Book Review: The Age of Cryptocurrency
- The Cryptoconomy, The Trust Web and the 3Ps of the Blockchain
- The Crypto-Tech Platforms Landscape via a Network Effects Lens
- It’s Too Early to Judge Network Effects in Bitcoin and the Blockchain
- 46 Aphorisms, Beliefs and Resolutions on Life & Technology circa 2015
- Blockchain Apps: Moving from the Jungle to the Zoo
- The Blockchain is the New Database, Get Ready to Rewrite Everything
- The Ultimate List of Bitcoin and Blockchain White Papers
- Where are Toronto’s Tech Startups Co-working Spaces?
- Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces
- The Race to Decentralize Everything and Give Power to the Edge of the Networks
- 7 Big Company Things that Startups Should Not Do
- Internet of Things, Brand Loyalty, CFO, Valuations, Pitching, Hiring, Failing, SaaS, Marketing, Product. Roundup #23 Nov 5 2014
- Unpacking Toronto’s Tech Startup Events
- Product/Market Fit, Competition, Marketing, Customer Development, Entrepreneurship, SaaS, Boards. Roundup #22 Oct 20 2014
- Messaging, Positioning, Branding for Startups: What Happens After Product/Market Fit
- Get Out of Your Building Again, Part II
- Why I Switched From an iPhone to a Xiaomi
- Growth Hacking versus Product Vision
- Why Bitcoin’s Price is Irrelevant to Its Success
- On Startup Competition: Don't Obsess, but Don't Ignore
- Why There Might Never Be Another Tech Bubble
- The Future of Pulling Content is You
- Stroll on the East side of Toronto, with TinEye, Hailo and Vanhawks
- Startup Pitch Decks Are Like Resumes
- The Practice of Startup Management [Book Outline]
- The New Internet "User Stack"
- Why You Don’t Need To Worry About Branding Until After Product
- VC's as Analysts and Farmer’s Market Shoppers
- The Global Unicorns Universe
- The Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Investment Landscape
- The Power of the Bitcoin Address
- Let Payments Become Bitcoin’s First Beachhead
- The 8 Identities of Bitcoin
- 7 Marketing Trends for Tech Startups in 2014
- Bitcoin is messy. Let’s fix it.
- Managing a Startup Isn’t Different – Don’t Re-invent Everything
- Competition, Marketing, Mentoring, Growth Hacking, Leadership, Sales, SaaS Metrics, Roundup#21 Dec 15 2013
- Treat the Competition Differently, Depending on Your Stage
- Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Marc Andreessen, B2B, SaaS, Growth Hacking, User Experience – Roundup #20, Nov. 24 2013
- Where Is Your Thought Leadership?
- The Decoupling of Conversations From Content
- Weekly Roundup #19, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, SaaS, Customer Loyalty, Product Management, CRM, Nov 15 2013
- Entrepreneurship, Sales, SaaS, Marketing, Failing, Mobile, Scaling, Growth Hacking,- Weekend Roundup #18 Nov 11 2013
- All Entrepreneurs Should Blog
- Roundup #17 Nov 3 2013 Conversions, VC/Entrepreneur, Content Marketing, Venture Capital, Marketing, Unicorns
- Recruiting, Market Strategy, Customer Engagement, Product, Pricing, Scaling, Boards, Crowdfunding, Weekend Review#16 October 27 2013
- Thinking About Product Planning
- Y Combinator, Advocate Marketing, Product/Market Fit, Gamification, Customer Retention, Metrics, Boards, SEO, Product Mgt, Roundup#15 Oct 20 2013
- 2013 Canadian Startups Landscape Analysis: Full of US VCs and Still Low Investments (Mattermark Data Analysis)
- Software Engineering, Business Models, Culture, Management, Metrics, Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Growth, Marketing, Weekend Roundup#14 Oct 13 2013
- The Power of Pull for Startups
- Don’t Abolish MBOs
- About That Sales Cycle…It Will Kill you
- Objectives, SaaS, Sales, Venture Capital, Conversions, Monetization, Growth, SEO, Mentorship, HR, Weekend Roundup #13 Oct 6 2013
- The Monetization Dilemma of Large Networks
- AngelList as the Modern Stock Exchange and Rome of Venture Capital
- Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Failing, Venture Capital, Culture, Analytics, HR – Weekend Reading Sept 29 2013
- Lessons From 15 Years Ago: 10 Driving Principles of the New Economy
- Funding, Scaling-up, Talent, Venture Capital, Customer Acquisition, Advertising, SaaS, Entrepreneurship, Weekend Reading, Sept 22 2013
- 66 Things That Make a Great Venture Capitalist
- Hack Your Growth, But Don’t Hack Your Marketing
- Customer Retention, Mentoring, Venture Capital, Pricing, Organizational Structure, HR, Content Marketing, SaaS, Weekend Roundup Must Read Sept 14 2013
- Battle of the Tech Ecosystems: Boston vs. New York, with Mattermark Data
- The Only 5 Types of Messaging You Need
- Pricing, SaaS, Venture Capital, Biz Dev, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Growth Hacking, and more, Weekend Roundup Must Read Sept 7 2013
- Introducing Product-Value Alignment: What Comes After Product/Market Fit
- Big Company vs. Startup Marketing
- Being Different with your Marketing Thinking
- Startup CEO Advice: Know your Blind Spots
- Product Strategy, Boards, Market Fit, Scaling, Pricing, Marketing, Structure, and more, Weekend Roundup Must Read August 31 2013
- 10 Core Principles of Product Development from Aaron Schildkrout
- Don’t Fall in Love with Your Product
- Do Comments Matter?
- Weekend Roundup Aug 24 2013, SaaS Modelling, Growth Hacking, Product/Market Fit, Marketing, HR, Customer Relations, and more.
- Product/Market Fit is a Continuum
- Why Not Reverse Inbound Marketing
- Stop Using Silly Job Titles in Startups, Here's 3 of Them
- Weekend Roundup, August 17 2013, Sales, Conversions, Marketing, Leads, Segmentation, Metrics, Failing, and more.
- Startup Founder-to-CEO Transition Toolset
- The Fallacy of the Easy-to-Use SaaS Product
- The Paradox of Native Advertising: New Recipe or New Bottle?
- Weekly Roundup Aug 10 2013: Rand Fishkin, Albert Wenger, Feedback, Growth, Content Marketing, Conversions, Growth, and more.
- The Advertising Model is Roaring: 6 Companies Defining Its Future
- The Leaping Startup
- Handling (Bad) Advice from Blogs
- Weekly Roundup, Aug 3 2013: Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg, Mentoring, Marketing, MVP, Gamification, Structure, Growth, and More.
- The 4 P's of Growth
- What Startups Want From Mentors
- Beyond the Obvious in Startup Marketing
- Startup CEO: The Book Every Founder Should Read (Exclusive Review)
- Weekly Roundup July 27, 2013: M. Andreessen, F. Wilson, S. Blank, Lean Startup, Growth, Leadership, Mobile Marketing, Growth Hacking, Conversions, and More
- Don’t Let Lean Startup Become a Crutch
- Growth is Growth: It's not a Debate & it’s not a Bitch
- Five Marketing Activities That Even Successful Startups Botch Up
- Weekly Roundup July 20, 2013: P. Graham, B. Horowitz, Marketing ROI, HR Trick, CEO Leadership, Branding, and More
- Don’t Confuse Growth with Success, and Don’t Delay the Revenue Model
- Global Startups Should Build a Bridge to the U.S. market
- Weekly Roundup July 13, 2013: T. Eisenmann, D. Shah, Competition, B2B Marketing, UX, Scaling, Sales, Customer Delivery, and More
- Make Marketing the Third Leg to Success, After Product and Engineering
- Failing Right: Ego and Entrepreneurial Failure
- How Do You Discover What Customers Really Want?
- 8 Free e-Books for Growing your Startup
- Partitioned Command: Divide and Conquer
- The Ultimate Guide to a Startup Company Culture
- Introducing Startup Management: The Website
- Forget the Product, Start Focusing on the Model
- Growth Hacking is a Bridge to Marketing
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Startup
- Startup Marketing is for Growth
- CMOs vs. CIOs Roles and the Pitfalls of Native Marketing
- The Earth Will Shake with Online Advocacies
- Antifragility and Tech Startups: Book Review