Chris, me, Rodrigo, JP and Martin at yesterday's investor conference here in Munich..
edit: (Leopold was holding the camera)
Awesome! What was the investor conference about exactly? What was the audience? Did you guys make a pitch for Bitshares?
We are now going to secure some more funds for marketing Bitshares, BlockPOS, Stealth, Graphene-IPFS, ECHO and a slew of other projects we are doing. I think 8 different VC firms showed up yesterday from around the world.
The BitShares Munich team is growing fast, lots of amazing talent with us now. They will take a stake in our private projects just like OPENPOS holders get, but it is worth it to me since we are now ready to unleash a few of our products to the public. We need to push the marketing HARD now and dominate the crypto space. Everyone will know about Graphene soon.
If you haven't started a Meetup group in your local town yet, NOW is the time!!!
https://secure.meetup.com/create/
Sounds like things are going well and moving fast Ken.
Couple questions I have, who are "they" that will be taking a stake in your private projects? Are the VC's or new team members? How will they be taking a stake, by investing in OPENPOS? Are these private projects still part of the OPENPOS investment?
Thanx
@lil_jay890 Originally, we were just going to build a wallet and integrate with Odoo, but I managed to build 4 products instead of 2.
I think with all of the products that we are launching, systems that we are integrating with, things that we are bolting on to Bitshares and so on that we need to raise substantial capital and actually go public. It only makes sense to give OPENPOS holders a bigger stake than we had originally planned because without you guys we never would have been able to create these first four products (BitShares Wallet, Smartcoins POS for Odoo, standalone POS (runs on any android device), and now the Smartcoins Wallet (native android). I don't want to just market to individual stores or chains, I want to market Bitshares and our products to the world now. We're ready. Bitshares is ready.
So, the VC's we have been talking to (at least 60% of them so far, various meetings over the last month) are absolutely stoked about what we have built, are currently building and our vision for future products and BlockPOS integrations. They would not have come all the way here to Munich to see us unless they saw value.
Right now, it's just Chris (CEO), Rodrigo (CMO) and I. We must keep our overhead as low as possible. We need to raise about $25K to last us for the next 3 months until the paperwork goes thru and we get the first deposit, so if you guys can donate more to the OPENPOS token that would be MUCH appreciated (as you can see, our bitshares-munich account is just about empty now). We still have to order a couple more tablets and counter mounts (these things are $300 each), plus have a couple professional videos produced, design and print localized marketing materials and ads, legal work, get ready for two huge upcoming trade fairs (need booth equipment, handouts, ads, promotional items, etc) and pay my Devs for a few more features that I want added to the BlockPOS systems and the new Smartcoins Wallet before I give them to the public. The VC's have also told us that their marketing departments will push this hard too. They know the decision-makers at Billion dollar retail, vending, gas and grocery chains so this launch is massive, we just need to survive the next couple months until we get the first deposit from them.
The VC's want a chunk of ECHO Industries UG (our German company). One of the VC's might even be able to get us traded on the London Stock Exchange.
I think OPENPOS holders are ultimately going to get a stake in our company too, but we need to get legal on that (as we can afford it) so that the tokens can be tied to the regular company shares in some way. I am not the finance guy,
@Chris4210 handles all of that,
but leave him alone for now please, he is swamped with spreadsheets and meetings and until we know more, this is about all I can share right now as I don't know how it will be handed out yet either.
So, if that doesn't get you fired up about the OPENPOS token I don't know what will. PLEASE contact
@Chris4210 if you'd like OPENPOS as well, this is your last chance.
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It's really amazing how efficient you are.