That would be Kindle Unlimited model, as far as I know they pay authors by pages read.
But I’m unsure how impactful revenue wise for an author can make or how sustainable is it long term.
Most of the books I see on Unlimited are either older books (there are some good gems), books that are already freely found on the internet or books that are scrappily put together.
Not raising or defer raising money can help establish the foundations of a viable long term business.
To start with, it does not feel right to have to raise money or give away equity in order to build the first MVP to look for product market fit.
Founding team should have all the skillsets required to launch the first version of the product (Tech + Marketing minimum). Tech founder who is able to code the product and has the know how to keep it running for as cheap as possible, and another founder who knows how to bring the product to market.
Iterate from there, and if lucky eventually slowly have a sustainable business. Along the journey, not having VC money trains the founders to make difficult choices and learn things the hard way. Ie. Founding team will do as much as they can before hiring someone else, optimize cost of operations rather than throwing money easily at problems, etc.
Founders who are in it for the long game and want to build a sustainable business, will find not raising money most attractive.
Every time when I asked for my copied ID to be watermark when checking-in at hotels, they always gave me a strange look - as if I do not trust their information security.
When traffic in a city is inherently bad. It sets the foundation for difficulty in solving the problem with buses (increase frequency, priority express buses)
In a high traffic situation, ETA gets adjusted from time to time. And buses will struggle to get in/out of stops and delays loom when accident occurs on the road.
Poor road planning and building alongside with massive amount of cars on the road is one of the major issue.
Maybe workplace hours should be adjusted as a whole or varying tolls based on high demand hours to avoid everyone competing for road space.
But I generally agree with the article that buses gets you really far. For a long time Singapore was relying on bus routes to move people around the city state, and progressively build subway lines as the demand and city planning go with it.
I would say that this is a good start. Another good asset backed token that is aiming towards decentralization would be MakerDAO and DAI
DAI is the USD stablecoin, overcollateralized by ETH and a variety of other ERC-20 tokens. And managed in a decentralized manner by MakerDAO token holders. A good experiment to watch imo
In the context of Ethereum ecosystem, such as dapps or decentralized exchanges; this allows bitcoin to be treated like an ERC-20 token to interact with contracts
Cofounder at CoinGecko here, congrats on the launch!
There are lots of interesting nuggets that you share on the FAQ page which some I do share similar thoughts on.
Otherwise, https://dokku.com has been really stable to launch your own heroku on cloud services like Digital Ocean or AWS
Gives the same experience as Heroku but with more flexibility