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Mikko is not active here in Bitcointalk. I don't know how these people accomplish getting the word out on Dent.
I think TokenMarket handles their social media; though the Slack & Telegram channels are kinda quiet, a dozen or so posts/comments per day. I also think the ICO will not be the only source of funding for the project and that they'll be seeking large(er) investors pretty soon. Not sure how future marketing will be handled, but if they bring big(ger) money, I'd assume they'll ramp up the marketing as well. Just a hunch.
Mikko and his core team have a shitton of biz and project experience outside of crypto, yet have just ventured on to crypto and especially ICO's. I was asking myself, if this is such a revolutionary concept, why not just seek VC funding and be done with it? Why fumble around with small donations when you could just score $10 mil of Series A funding? And the answer is, I think, with a token sale and subsequent Dent app, Dent can demonstrate to a telco (hopefully a large) number of users wanting their data liberated. Can't do that if you have 1-2 large investors giving you cash.
Unlike the "normal" ICO's I don't think Dent's purpose for the ICO is to create massive hype (TenX) or raise an insane amount of cash (EOS) -- though I have to admit the 152K ETH cap is pretty fecking huge --- but rather, bring on users at a gradual pace; again because the point of the ICO is not create inflated prices or a pump and dump. Many of us look for those under the radar projects with small a cap, low number of tokens, for that 20x, 50x return. I don't think you'll achieve that with Dent. You should get onboard because you believe this actually solves a *current* problem, and not just for cryptoenthusiasts, not because you expect DENT to be worth 10x in 6 months.
Per Mikko's comment on Dent's Telegram group, the first telco should be onboard late this year. So while I'd like to see more activity here, and social media in general, I don't think the project is in any jeopardy of moving forward.
I'm long on this one.