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If you can launch a token and raise $5m, why would you take on venture capital?

Healthcare investor by day, web3/AI tinkerer by night. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /theitinerant

What is the raise is not for equity or governance, but just a service to have access to the product?

Because dealing with 10,000 highly opinionated internet anons who want you to pump their bags is a surefire way to destroy a business.

https://x.com/hi_im_nico/status/1892835587780202836?s=46

Convinced that the best products don’t need a token and the best tokens don’t need a product

Study Base & Farcaster: both have higher retention than most token products

Perhaps if the token doesn't make as much sense? From @n:

Founder far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. Investing miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

Founder @farquest & @wieldlabs.eth, investing @ miy.com // Previously Meta, Coinbase // cryptojcdenton.twitter // FID #251

Both Base and Farcaster are VC funded so they don’t need a community token. All a community token does is dilute equity holders at this point.

So I would agree with that post.

Perhaps if the token doesn't make as much sense? From @n: https://warpcast.com/n/0xb1e9c7fe

What if you trade the tokens for money so you don’t own any tokens to sell. Similar to how POINTS launched - ETH was sold, not POINTS.

cuz if you sell the tokens people will be mad

Private ➡️ Public ➡️ Token 

trading control for accessibility

building @pods 🎧 giving creators & audiences ownership

One of the challenges with a token is that you end up with very low quality capital.

https://warpcast.com/eriknelson.eth/0xf69758ff

building creator payments @ unitedmasters.com. investing.

building nosocial.me.
did first real world asset financing with @makerdao.

What the diff between than and having 100,000 customers?

Launching a token is effectively going public. The number of people you report to is 100,000X and you have to approach things with a dramatically different lens. That kills the ability to move fast and think independently when the world is invested in your every move.

🍁 Founder of Frenglish.ai | Software Developer | AI & Web3 ❤️——

Being VC backed doesn’t absolve you of anything you said if still have a community.

i'm pretty scared of having 1000 "VCs" telling me what to do and sending me death threats on the daily 😅

marketing @ esprezzo.io | 
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Can you walk through some of the best ways to raise funds thru token launch? Hear about this often but don’t see goood ways to do it other than launch token and later dump on your investors