Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network

The last two should be noted. These are new to the world in the last few years, but they could play a big role in the next 10 years

8. Some voting and/or decision making, ability to edit/change

3. Equity shares (traditional)

1. Value of using the product (e.g. utility, status, cheaper prices, fun, etc)

15. Non-Fungible Tokens

Tokens reveal network impacts that have alway been there. Including fan tokens in Messi’s comp package to make it incrementally more accurate as an approximation to his value creation for the PSG network. The tokens doubled in value when the signing was announced, so Messi’s comp from that token doubled. This is only 2021, so it wasn’t a huge part ... See more

We believe that all companies with network effects will have tokens in the next five years to help them bond nodes to their networks, both their product network and their company network.

Software used to be the hard thing about startups. Now software is easier, and networks are hard. The rare skill today is network bonding and community building.

You already see this with airdrops of new crypto network tokens to existing holders of Bitcoin or Ethereum holders, people who are most likely already wealthy. They are given free tokens with the hope they will bond to the new crypto project. This is a network bonding curve at work even though it’s still blunt today...The visibility and measuring o... See more