Thanks to Matt608 and CLains for your helpful replies.

As far as integrating Bitshares is concerned, I'm still pretty sketchy on the details of how we could best go about adopting the user-issued-asset feature, and/or using BTS / bitUSD  / running for election as a delegate, etc., so any details you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

tonyk2 - glad you are entertained - however your post is not helpful in any way.  Do you suggest we should use NXT or Mastercoin or perhaps something else instead of Bitshares for our project?  I had the impression that Bitshares was intended to be used for projects like ours...  Perhaps you know better?

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We are currently preparing to launch a new website that is intended to deliver a sophisticated E-Commerce Marketplace featuring multiple best-of-breed applications, such as Banking and Account Management, Sales and Marketing Tools, a Contact Relationship Management system, integrated Social Networking and much more, all seamlessly combined to deliver a unique platform for doing business in the 21st Century.
 
This new site will include a variety of digital currency tools and integrates a collection of powerful web-based services into a single convenient trading platform that makes it easy for people to buy and sell all kinds of goods and services in a series of trusted marketplace environments, etc.
 
We are very interested in leveraging BitShares technology in order to facilitate the creation of a new Virtual Corporation operating as a Distributed Autonomous Corporation (DAC) and are currently looking for advice and other types of assistance in creating the distributed foundation for this new entity.
 
We also expect to create a couple of new crypto-currencies that will help us both to fund the implementation and continued development of this new system, as well as to facilitate ongoing trade among the various participants, etc.
 
If anyone is interested in assisting us in helping to set up this proposed new Virtual Corporation as a DAC, and can offer suggestions and/or insight into how we can best accomplish this aspect of our new system, we would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
 
Thanks in advance for any input.
 
 ~ Neil