Funding Models Quotes

One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.

I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.

For the devices we use... the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn't sufficient for hardware.

Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.

Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Welfare reform passed in the 90s worked because states were given maximum authority along with adequate funding. This model can work for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.