A couple of years ago I learned about offtake agreements from a chemical industry gig and now I think of my book project as trying to set up a pilot plant "funded" by offtake agreements with my blog/newsletter/podcast. Gotta keep all the plates spinning.
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It's a very clever instrument to derisk innovation with revenue NPV and commodity futures contracts rolled into one vehicle
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Wonder if some version of it can work in software. got off the ground via funding from people who badly wanted the tool, so that's a kind of offtake agreement. Guaranteed user base.
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In another way, I'm a counterparty to an offtake agreement with ... as a customer for one of his more complex mazes to use in my project (as well as partnering with him on the project, a case of double dipping)
It is amazing how much even the smallest creative projects, be it a book or an indie game, require the same kinds of delicate enablement engineering. Not just time/money, not around the substance of what is being done.
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