Archive Index – William Mougayar

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