A carve-out for start-up expenses is economically unavoidable in most fair launches because it is not feasible to expect founders operating without funding to keep spending time and resources on the project without payback assurances.
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As a matter of fact, it may not be feasible to get founders who operate without funding to keep spending time and resources on the project without payback assurances.
Wulf A. Kaal, Fair Token Launch (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4015908
Holds when
founders operate without outside funding
project cannot raise outside capital in a reasonable timeframe
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