TOKENS GENERATION ON THE BLOCKCHAIN BEST PRACTICES AND LOOK AHEAD
William Mougayar Investor, Advisor Author, The Business Blockchain @wmougayar
Zurich, 15 Sept 2017
State of the Market? q Excellent q Good q Bad q Ugly
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Ecosystem Landscape Blockchains
Tokens
Lawyers & Regulators
Advisors
Startups Funds & Platforms
Service Providers
Accelerators
Analysts
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ICO Service Providers CoinFund Cofound.it ICOBox Smart Valor Blockhaus ICOinfo TokenMarket BraveNewCoin
ICOage CoinFund CoinTree Argon Group Element Group Bitcoin Suisse Coral Validity Labs
Cryptonomos Waves Ambisafe CoinLaunch TokenFunder Itiriv CryptoAsset DG Zeppelin
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Criteria for Evaluation 1. Startup Characteristics 2. Crypto Sale Resiliency 3. Operational Transparency 4. Business Model
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4 Systemic Risks 1. Levels of disclosures 2. Terms and structures 3. Post-sale transparency 4. Value vs. Valuations
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Looking Ahead
DOLLARS The magic 1%
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VALUATIONS Is there a correlation?
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TOKEN TYPES Right . Reward . Ownership . Toll
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2 KEY QUESTIONS What Will It Do? Why a Token?
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FAILURES How will it end?
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REGULATION Applying Old vs. Creating New
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Final Thoughts 1. Do it right. Don’t hype. Deliver. 2. Surround yourself with real advisors. 3. Don’t over legalize. 4. Startup laws aren’t changing. 5. Decentralization/P2P are a requirement.
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WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS…
Count your developers and users
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THANK YOU
William Mougayar Investor, Advisor Author, The Business Blockchain @wmougayar [email protected] http://startupmanagement.org/blog
Zurich, 15 Sept 2017