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In this article Trent McConaghy shows that we can draw inspiration from successful models in businesses and national economies in order to design sustainable web3 projects.
Web1 revenue generation: treat the webpage as an application to buy things or interact with others, and take a cut. Ebay/ Craigslist.
Web 2 revenue generation:
Revenue is only part of the picture. Businesses needed funds to get started in the first place, and funds to grow aggressively when at risk of being defeated by fast moving competitors
To address this businesses can issue stock and sell it to investors for cash. This is a “superpower” that allows them to pull capital from the future into the present