1) make a closed beta (so you have to get an invite to participate).
2) willingly promote pseudonym. Enforce as much as possible single profile, but adopt the "circles" concept from google+
3) pay celebrities to get in.
4) pay a weekly $100 to top 50 "most" active users (where you define what "most" active means. instead of one top 50, it can be five top 10). Pay "internal" money for the rest of the top 100. Internal money is a lot, e.g 1USD is 9999
5) pay top 5 celebrities real money too
6) manufacture your own celebrities.
7) pay "internal" money for every bit of information the user provide (location, "taste", purchase made elsewhere). Make is SUPER easy to report.
8) add games where user can spend the "internal" money
9) add dating
10) add cheap content (ala buzzfeed). and longer form serialized fiction (romance, scifi,erotica...).
11) add "chic" content that user have to pay internal money to get it.
12) gamify content access with "limited exclusive" content and other tricks.
13) pay other sites to adopt your internal money as a way to get "digital" stuff.
14) do an ICO for the "internal" money as soon as it has some traction.
15) be heavily "one-handed editorialized" on opiniated content generation, to cover all possible angles.
16) once there is a bit of traction, make sure to have a few "scandals" for people to want to be "inside" your closed world. Stay an invite-only club.
17) Make a paid API to have an "ecosystem" of add-ons ($100 a year). And take a % of payment (only done with your internal money) to incite ecosystem to charge.
2) willingly promote pseudonym. Enforce as much as possible single profile, but adopt the "circles" concept from google+
3) pay celebrities to get in.
4) pay a weekly $100 to top 50 "most" active users (where you define what "most" active means. instead of one top 50, it can be five top 10). Pay "internal" money for the rest of the top 100. Internal money is a lot, e.g 1USD is 9999
5) pay top 5 celebrities real money too
6) manufacture your own celebrities.
7) pay "internal" money for every bit of information the user provide (location, "taste", purchase made elsewhere). Make is SUPER easy to report.
8) add games where user can spend the "internal" money
9) add dating
10) add cheap content (ala buzzfeed). and longer form serialized fiction (romance, scifi,erotica...).
11) add "chic" content that user have to pay internal money to get it.
12) gamify content access with "limited exclusive" content and other tricks.
13) pay other sites to adopt your internal money as a way to get "digital" stuff.
14) do an ICO for the "internal" money as soon as it has some traction.
15) be heavily "one-handed editorialized" on opiniated content generation, to cover all possible angles.
16) once there is a bit of traction, make sure to have a few "scandals" for people to want to be "inside" your closed world. Stay an invite-only club.
17) Make a paid API to have an "ecosystem" of add-ons ($100 a year). And take a % of payment (only done with your internal money) to incite ecosystem to charge.