increasingly believe that the right time to launch a token is at the start of the project, not the end

Lots of variables but directionally agree with you for small team, software heavy, network based projects. This is what we are experimenting with in Footy App. $ SCORES can be purchased now (mint-burn w project owned liquidity) & the token floats in exactly 1 year from today as the World Cup gears up.

More info here: https://app.revnet.eth.sucks/base:53
or (better for footy's fc rewards: fc-footy.vercel.app

Teams still have to do a ton of fundraising but maybe someone will figure out an agent based capital allocator to fix that.

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