There is money sitting in the reserves to do marketing too.
All that needs to be done is deliver something, establish a reputation, then deploy a convincing worker proposal and get funds to go further.

I believe this is why bitshares has under preformed. These guys go on about how great they platform is but no one has heard of us. I have a fairly decent investment and it frustrates us to see such a good company with awesome founders with very poor marketing.

Hello dear partners. Do you think that bitshares has some sort of advertisement plans soon?
I have noticed how active some companies which are using simple social media, banners letting know people we are the fastest, youtube videos a way to let people what we can do. Newcomers to crypro have no idea about this organisation and its pitty..