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William Mougayar
Canadian
Businessman
Blockchain
Business
Internet
Own
Will
You
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The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.
William Mougayar
Blockchain
Revolution
Progression
Everything
Way
Slowly
Advancing
Along
Force
Gradually
Just
Cannot
Phenomenon
I'm looking forward to seeing more ICO projects provide increased clarity about the performance metrics expectations they plan to exhibit during their future adult lives in addition to the assumptive utility of that token they are selling.
William Mougayar
Future
Looking
Increased
Addition
Projects
Clarity
Seeing
About
More
Adult
Performance
Looking Forward
Exhibit
Provide
Selling
Expectations
ICO
Plan
Token
Forward
Utility
Lives
If you haven't used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries is an eye opening experience, and that is just a starting point.
William Mougayar
You
Appreciation
Experience
Bitcoin
Understanding
Eye
Seeing
Potential
Point
Advantage
Opening
Without
First-Hand
Quicker
Get
May
Move
Just
Inherent
Used
Swiftly
Assets
Starting
Starting Point
You have to think of the blockchain as a new utility. It is a new utility network for moving value, moving assets.
William Mougayar
You
Value
Blockchain
Think
Network
New
Moving
Utility
Assets
The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.
William Mougayar
Trust
Challenge
Will
Blockchain
Own
Keys
Our
Able
Exchange
Exchanging
Without
Verifying
Existing
Trusted
Authenticity
Authorities
Anything
Central
Custodian
Held
Assets
As much as one would like to think that what China does doesn't matter, the reality is that when China sneezes at crypto, the rest of the world catches the cold.
William Mougayar
Reality
World
Matter
Rest
Think
Cold
Would
Like
Crypto
Does
China
Much
My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as the sale is over. And don't get distracted by post-ICO euphoria and the price of ETH or BTC.
William Mougayar
Focus
Advice
Reading
Startups
Market
Distracted
About
Price
Soon
Over
Sale
Get
Customer
Product
Euphoria
Many
Start
In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and breaches.
William Mougayar
World
Blockchain
Own
Data
Vulnerable
Losses
Central
Should
Less
User
Each
Players
If blockchain technologies ignore the eventuality of standards, we are going to see less adoption. Maybe we should think of the blockchain as a public-good utility and encourage an evolution that is not unlike the Internet's in terms of openness and neutrality of access.
William Mougayar
Internet
Neutrality
Blockchain
Think
Unlike
Evolution
See
Adoption
Openness
Terms
Access
Encourage
Going
Maybe
Should
Ignore
Less
Standards
Utility
Technologies
There is a new economy out there, what I call the Crypto-Tech Economy, that could be as big, if not bigger, than the web economy. So we have to be prepared for it.
William Mougayar
Big
Out
Be Prepared
Web
Could
New
Economy
Call
Than
Bigger
Prepared
The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain's future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is to be considered vitamin or poison.
William Mougayar
Future
World
Poison
Blockchain
Analyzing
Considered
Enterprises
Entrepreneurs
Wondering
Preoccupied
Dissecting
A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers.
William Mougayar
Business
Startup
New
Like
Lot
Fit
Model
Realization
Business Model
Requires
Owning a token bestows a right that results in product usage, a governance action, a given contribution, voting, or plain access to the product or market.
William Mougayar
Voting
Action
Market
Given
Results
Access
Governance
Contribution
Owning
Plain
Product
Usage
Token
Right
Many regulators are quick to apply existing compliance practices that treat tokens as a security, therefore elevating the barriers and costs of implementation for entrepreneurs.
William Mougayar
Treat
Compliance
Security
Costs
Entrepreneurs
Implementation
Practices
Existing
Quick
Barriers
Many
Therefore
Elevating
Apply
Tokens should not be listed before the start of the operations on the network, platform, or application. This is where many ICO's seem to have lost their ways, and that's risky.
William Mougayar
Lost
Before
Ways
Seem
Network
Risky
Operations
Listed
Where
ICO
Should
Many
Platform
Application
Start
When (not if) regulators start looking at ICO deals they might want to investigate, they will likely start with the ones that exhibit weaknesses.
William Mougayar
Will
Looking
Weaknesses
Investigate
Likely
Deals
Exhibit
Want
ICO
Might
Start
Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential.
William Mougayar
Government
First
Understanding
Blockchain
Speed
Potential
Leaders
Up
Get
Committing
Should
Exploring
ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.
William Mougayar
Walk
Will
Startup
Earned
Characteristics
Evolution
Park
Escape
Cannot
Means
Hard
Fought
Growth
Hardly
In my opinion, one of the most exciting potentials of the blockchain relate to creating new business models, whether in public or in private settings. In most of these cases, the new models don't care for incumbents because they are mostly on a disruption quest.
William Mougayar
Business
Care
Blockchain
Relate
Settings
Cases
Exciting
New
Most
New Business
Mostly
Because
Opinion
Private
Quest
dont Care
Models
In My Opinion
Whether
Public
Creating
Disruption
Few incumbents will succeed in deploying blockchain applications to enable new business models. The innovator's dilemma will prevail. Even if they aspire to, they must first get their feet wet within their business boundaries.
William Mougayar
Prevail
Business
Will
First
Blockchain
Few
Innovator
Dilemma
Must
Boundaries
New
Feet
New Business
Within
Enable
Wet
Get
Models
Deploying
Succeed
Aspire
Even
Applications
The blockchain start-ups that have done ICOs are just at the beginning of something. Ask me how they are doing in a year or two years from now. I know for a fact it won't be any different from the statistics of all start-ups: 80% of them will not make it.
William Mougayar
Me
Will
Year
Blockchain
Beginning
Statistics
Something
Fact
Know
Make
How
Doing
Years
Any
Done
Just
Different
Them
Ask
Now
Two
Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another IT project. It's going to save money; it's going improve a process here and there. It's not going to change their business.
William Mougayar
Business
Change
Money
Big
Blockchain
Project
See
Another
Big Companies
Improve
Going
Want
Process
Themselves
Companies
Here
Disrupt
Save
Crowdsourced funding via cryptocurrencies is a viable practice. A lot of good ideas and innovative companies are coming out of it. This segment is creating thousands of jobs and companies all over the world.
William Mougayar
Good
World
Practice
Good Ideas
Innovative
Out
Jobs
Thousands
Segment
Over
Ideas
Coming
Lot
Via
Viable
Creating
Companies
Funding
In the increasingly digital world, data is a valuable currency, yet as consumers, we control and own little of it. As consumers, we must ask what big companies do with our data, a question directed to both the online and traditional ones.
William Mougayar
World
Digital
Valuable
Big
Own
Control
Increasingly
Digital World
Our
Must
Directed
Data
Online
Both
Consumers
Big Companies
Traditional
Question
Currency
Little
Ask
Companies
An aftermath of real failures can make the whole blockchain ecosystem more resilient because it will result in revealing the boundaries and realities of what's possible, useful, absurd, impossible, repeatable, and scalable out of everything that appears plausible and innovative at the beginning.
William Mougayar
Result
Impossible
Will
Blockchain
Beginning
Innovative
Everything
Out
Possible
More
Absurd
Boundaries
Failures
Ecosystem
Make
Because
Revealing
Real
Aftermath
Realities
Useful
Whole
Appears
Plausible
Resilient
How do we create new value? You create value by running services on the blockchain.
William Mougayar
You
Value
Blockchain
Running
New
How
Create
Services
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