SVB was the Canary in the Coal Mine of Entrepreneurism.

Its true- SVB was the Canary in the Coal Mine of Entrepreneurism. 

And now, as entrepreneurs, we are standing around, at the far end of the mine, the oxygen in the air almost used up, watching the canary die, and noticing, the flame on the candle, begin to dim. It is past time for something different. 

- Michael Noel Author - Tokenomics is not Economics

It is past time for something different. 

I have been involved in Capitalization Campaigns for thousands of companies from both sides of the transaction. Private Equity, Venture Funding, Debt, Angel Investing, Intra State Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Reg A, Reg D, Reg CF, Tokenization, ICOs, STO NFT, and just about anything else you could imagine. Going back to the '80s when I started and ran the sell-side team for Dinan & Company (They have done over 50 Billion in transactions today). 

Here is what we all "IN THE FUNDING BUSINESS" know, You are probably not ready to onboard capital. Why? Because 90% of the innovative companies looking to onboard capital are not ready to use it. They think they are, but really no, and the results so far have been devastating. 

If you are skeptical just ask that guy you know in the funding industry, "how many deals you need to review before you have a good one. It's usually 80% of the time, the organization is even remotely ready to onboard capital. You could ask some of the leading funding industry personalities with billions in funding behind them, 

Adryenn Ashley

Kurt Walker🌶 Walker

Gelie Akhenblit

They will tell you it's usually between 10% and 20% of the time, the organization is even remotely ready to onboard capital. 

My favorite Kurt Walker quote is, "You don't have a capitalization problem, you have a sales (Marketing) problem" - Kurt Walker

And this has been going on for decades. 

Gelie Akhenblit held the Lucky Napkin event in the early 2000s at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort. She promoted the idea that if it was a good idea, then it should fit on a napkin. She had different investors there to review a few hundred potential startups, except that several thousand showed up in hopes of pitching in the hallways. As I recall the fire department threatened to shut the Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort down due to too many people in the resort. 

           The result = was a lot of people that were not ready. 

This HAS been going on for decades. 

In 2016 I started 37 Blockchain companies simultaneously and gave them away to teams who were interested. The scalability of Blockchain kept most from moving forward, but those workflows are still out there ready to go. We raised trillions of dollars in the ICO craze just a few short years ago. An estimated $4.9 billion was raised through ICOs in 2017 and today we have very little to show for it. Most of that capitalization is lost. Most were not ready to scale. This HAS been going on for decades. 

The system is completely broken. It needs to be reworked from the ground up. And probably digitized as well. And to complicate matters, We are getting started on the biggest epoch of change any generation has ever seen. And this change will need new innovators who will need to be capitalized. 

Remote workers are becoming the norm, digital products are taking over, automation is growing, renewable energy is here and scaling, fintech is on the rise, the digital revolution, Blockchain, WEB3, Digital Assets, NFTs, AI, ML, NDN, IPFS, and so much more. All this change will need innovation to execute. Innovation starts as an idea, moves through the steps, and then scales. That is the Simple Logical Repeatable process. Innovation starts as an idea, moves through the steps, and then scales. But what are the steps? How would an innovator find these steps?

How would you? 

In the beginning, workers bought stock in the company they worked at. That company took money from its workers and invested it in needed tools and equipment and that company grew. So on and so forth, and that was good. And maybe that worker bought AT&T stock, and they invested that money in needed tools and equipment and AT&T grew. That is the way we need things to work. 

Unfortunately, that is not the reality today.

The stock market is at an all-time high, thanks to low-interest rates and companies' capability to borrow money and buy back stocks. And now we are depending on these same companies, to innovate. 

Ready for something different???? Most today are.

Yet the Capitalization of Innovation is almost at a standstill. And the innovation that is being funded, is being funded to facelift the current workflows. We need to move a mountain, but instead of developing the tools necessary, we are fitting our 72 Volkswagen Bug with a truck bed. Many industries are slow to adopt. Mostly because it requires a forklift of their current infrastructure.

Yet many industries are already moving forward in the new paradigm. 

Consider these facts:

Airbnb has become the largest hotel chain in the world (after launching in 2008), with more than 850,000 rooms, and without owning any hotels.

From 2012 to 2014, Uber consumed a whopping 65% of San Francisco’s taxi business. 

Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics put 47% of U.S. employment (over 60 million jobs) at high risk of being replaced in the next decade.

10 million new autonomous vehicles per year will be entering U.S. highways by 2030.

Today’s sensors are 1 billion times better (1000x lighter, 1000x cheaper, and 1000x the resolution) than only 40 years ago. By 2030, 100 trillion sensors could be operational worldwide.

The cost of DNA sequencing dropped precipitously (from $1B to $5K) in only 15 years. Now by the end of 2023 it could be $0.01.

In 2000, it took $5,000,000 to launch an Internet startup. Today the cost is less than $500.

With gains like this, it’s no wonder futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that progress in this century could be of equal magnitude to all such progress over the last 200 centuries.

Are you ready to move to the new paradigm now? Are you an innovator? Or are you looking to invest in innovation? If you had a billion dollars where would you keep it today? A Bank?

If nothing changes, then nothing changes. 

Ready To Get Started on something different?

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Thank you for your interest and I look forward to connecting.

– Michael Noel

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