SWOT analysis for a startup to consider web3 ecosystem
Aug 8, 2022
Strengths:
- Easy to get early global customers
- Easy to raise funds from global pool of investors
- Easy international expansion and low cost of payment integrations
Weakness:
- Lack of legal clarity on many parts of the world
- Nascent developer tools, things break and get irrelevant quicker
- Scams on new users onboarding is easy
Opportunities:
- Blue ocean
- Customers are ready to take risks and try things
- Participation Incentives for early partners and customers
- Global reach and low difficulty in expanding internationally
- Traditional investors are allocating funds for exploring web3
Threats:
- Risk of attacks and hacks on your product
- Risk of idea being built faster by opponent
- Geo-political risks of sentiments around crypto
- Risk of getting irrelevant in few years
- Sufficient decentralisation can overrun the founding teams