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  • 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

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