Topic: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread - page 309. (Read 479317 times)

I put almost no stock in the design and layout of a website.  Anyone can make one look good, but I can see why certain people do feel this way.

I would tend to disagree though, the website is not and will not be the face of the company.  The customers and the delivery of a product, the miners, will be the face.  A website is a marketing tool, pure and simple.

Yes, a very big YES!!

The website will be the face of the company - selling asic's to customers. It MUST be professional.

We're talking about spending $1Million on NRE, but won't spend a few $1000's on a proper website??

Any shareholders dropped 4K (or more) on a FAST-HASH-ONE preorder yet? (link: http://virtualminingcorp.com/shop1/index.php?id_product=10&controller=product) I'm considering taking the plunge, and I wanted to know if that was a common sentiment amongst ActM shareholders.

Should Ken spend money to hire a professional design firm to build the website then?

All of you what have said might be true. Or it might not be. What my issue is with the site, the language, content mistakes and vagueness is that Ken wants people to trust him with not only the NRE funds raised from the shares but also with $4k preorders when the ONLY info found on the site's product page is a generic chassic picture and a few marketing lines about how fast the product is. There is no evidence whatsoever on this site that the business and the Fast-Hash-One is legit. None.

It should be reasonable to expect criticism and doubt when the available information is so unclear and when there is so much money at stake. To me that is unacceptable from both a business and investor standpoint.

No, but I did my homework and keep doing it everyday.


Mediocrity? Ken has spent a whole year developing the xilinx RTL code for the chip so that any of this is possible. He also got one of the best companies on the boat, eAsic, to finalize the chip's development in record time and mass produce it.

Of course the web site can be improved but I would be CRAZY to invest on this based only on web-site cleanness and "company image". The meat is in the inside, not on the outside.

I think there is a language barrier with Ken, as English is not his first language.  It is not a slight or a flame, I accept that and that is why I offered to him my services to communicate his updates to the community more eloquently.

No, but I did my homework and keep doing it everyday.


Mediocrity? Ken has spent a whole year developing the xilinx RTL code for the chip so that any of this is possible. He also got one of the best companies on the boat, eAsic, to finalize the chip's development in record time and mass produce it.

Of course the web site can be improved but I would be CRAZY to invest on this based only on web-site cleanness and "company image". The meat is in the inside, not on the outside.

Vbs: do you work for VMC? You seem like Ken's PR.

You don't think a company raising 6-7 figure amounts from the community based on the promise of a future product with no guarantees whatsoever that it's not a giant scam should disclose as much information about it to its investors? The typos and such are a secondary issue but they are relevant as that site, along with Ken's posts here, are the image of the company.

Deserving of my outrage? Certainly. And it should be for all of us as when we only ask mediocrity and invest in it, mediocrity is all we can expect back.

I offered to help with the grammatical errors, and PR relations to the community.... for FREE... no shares, no handouts, just relaying of communication.  You won't get anyone who has done most of the heavy lifting to offer handouts because you have a stronger grasp on the English language and can operate dreamweaver - and I see nothing wrong with doing some of my own due diligence when investing.  I was very skeptical at the beginning, and even up to a month ago, until compiling a complete profile on this company and what it is attempting to accomplish.  Ken can attest, I blasted him on a few posts, sent him some unsavory pm's asking/demanding information.  To his credit, he has answered and responded, and I pointed my nose in the right direction to learn more about him, some of the accusations put upon him, and the erroneous slander published here on this very forum.

I dont care what the site looks like in its infancy, ASICMINER doesn't even have a website and people have no problem dumping a shit ton of capital into that security.  Friedcat has fallen off with his communication to the community, delayed his new blades, is taking pre-orders for them too!  Yet, here they are, me included, buying up shares.  Some people around here focus only on what is in front of them, and can't get off their lazy asses to do their own research.  Grammatical errors mean nothing, a layout of a website means nothing, what matters is the execution of the business model.  Ken is doing that, and is actually doing a pretty good job since straightening out the ship.