Indie = 100% Ownership I’m prioritizing independence in this phase of my career. Individual startups in my portfolio can and will raise outside capital when they’re ready to be independent. But Utopic LLC, the original parent company, will always stay 100% mine. Startup = Anything I Want to Create Any funding: Bootstrapped → VC/PE AnyContinue reading “Utopic Studio”
Tag Archives: World’s Biggest Problems
Open Metaverse
There were only 130 websites in the world in June 1993. AOL reached 1+ million users in 1995 and 5+ million users in 1996. The whole internet only had 16 million users in 1995 and 36 million users in 1996. The creation layer is now decentralized. There are now over 1.9 billion websites in theContinue reading “Open Metaverse”
Utopiaforming
Is this our fate? Is the future destined to be hell on earth? Does every version of our future include neon Coca-Cola billboards and authoritarian robot overlords? Or are we just projecting the unhappiness of our present lives into our wildest nightmares? And who creates the future first? Science fiction writers. So when our mostContinue reading “Utopiaforming”
Fractionalization
Problem: High transaction costs limit public access into finance, real estate, etc. Solution: Fractionalize complex assets using smart contracts and digital mirrors. How many lawyers can we replace with smart contracts? How much of finance is just entities securing each others’ assets? VCs (1-10+ wires) → Angels (10-100+ checks) → Crowdfunding (100-1K+ credit cards) →Continue reading “Fractionalization”
Hamming Questions
My World’s Biggest Problems project is inspired by one of my favorite quotes: I paraphrase this idea into two questions: Why don’t more people spend their time solving the hardest problems? My personal mission is to convince more people to solve The World’s Biggest Problems. This idea is a work-in-progress. If you’d like to riff on it, hitContinue reading “Hamming Questions”
Personal Capital
The 4 Types of Personal Capital: Chart: Examples:
360 Deals for Founders
In the music industry, a 360 deal is where a record label provides an artist with financial, marketing, and distribution support in exchange for a percentage of future revenue streams. Help founders create their own startup studios. This gives founders the freedom to think big and quickly take multiple shots on goal. Motown Records’ 360 dealsContinue reading “360 Deals for Founders”
Utopic Ventures
This idea is a work-in-progress. If you’d like to riff on it, hit me up @neilthanedar on Twitter!