RE: Adventuring into Venture Capital

Venture capital is basically risk capital. i.e. an investment with higher risk tolerance. And it's not 1 in a 1000. Their goal is to have 1 exit in 10 investments that would pay for the rest and result in a degree of profits. There is a lot of play in there, like partially cashing out during followup investments many other shady and normal deals. VC's can not invest into Hive legally yet.

What this means for Hive is that if there are 1000 applications built on the infrastructure, there might be one "unicorn" type.

Hive is not exactly apple or similar platform. Apple is more of a distribution system for the apps. While Hive is a protocol that works on a set criteria and set of rules, hence it has more limitations i.e. is more vertical orientated. Apple can distribute any app they see fit ranging very broad and undefined business models, styles etc while Hive dapps all have that inherent rewards/incentive backbone. I'm not saying that Hive is worse or better, i'm just saying we can not compare those too directly. Simply different worlds and different game rules. Dapps will still be taking beneficiary fees or something to support development as huge unicorn type solutions will not be financed from the fund alone and will need recurring revenue streams. So it will not be totally "free" for a and user.

the ability to be a venture capitalist with even the smallest amounts of investment capital

And that one is absolutely true. Never ever before a single person was able to take part in the next big thing. Ofc we have to take the risks too, it's not 2017 anymore when anything you bought was mooning. Now we have to do due diligence, apply critical thinking and get rid of desire to be always right. It is hard, but it is responsibility that comes with the privilege. And privilege here is like never before.