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How much dividends to pay out, in the first 3 (few), 6 (much more!), 12 months (many!!)(!*!)
How much the traders of the assets shall earn so that it is an attractive gambling opportunity (traders buy supercheap initially, and later sell all their shares at an X-fold price - what is X ?)
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I am very much interested in opinions about (!*!) the dividends expectations of possible long-term investors. What is an attractive -yet realistic- expectation of dividends on the profits of an "young and emerging" software family?
maybe try to keep it simple since this is so new...
stick to HZ or other well-known coin, avoid using different coins. it would complicate it for you and future buyers of your shares would want accountability-at-a-glance. everything done blockchain, 1 coin allows that. i would choose HZ because i personally own a half-mil and am interested (disclaimer). i would need wallet addresses for income/expense to be posted and current because math is accountable. idk what average dividends should be, i can ask my bro who has experience with non-inet start-ups. i think starting price maybe lower, but only for year 1. if you are successful raise the price after that, it would help yourself and your initial investors. if less successful keep at the same rate. your decision as majority share-holder. just do not drop the rate, it would hurt confidence. the beauty of open-source is on everybody's side.
mind808crime
edit: my brother said that there is no set answer on dividends, but that the company (dev) announces at the start of each quarter. he said that non-inet (his exp.) non-utility companies usually do not offer dividends the first year, but an inet company could very well be different because of possibility of explosive growth. maybe a moderate dividend promise after 6 months? or tie the promise to # of subscriptions? just a thought......
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
stick to HZ or other well-known coin
HZ has too little total volume (#11) to be the best choice right now - but still I want to support that HZ platform. And it is cheap to launch an asset there.
NXT seems to definitely be where most of the action is (#13).
And also see my second (#12) assessment of the other platforms.
I mainly complicates it for me, because dividends have to be shared on both platforms. But fortunately NXT and HZ both go back to the same code, so I hope what I implement in one will work in both.
I really like HZ, and probably launch there first.
I was thinking ... with all my crypto income now it probably makes sense ... to also always record the exact value in USD on the day of payment?
The rates asset-to-HZ and HZ-to-BTC and BTC-to-USD are fluctuating so much, so that it is probably a necessary step for me to always record the fiat value of incoming payments?
Me neither - but I am getting there. The main factors are mentioned in #25. And I am parsing the asset markets (NXT = nxtforum topic 8580; bitcointalk HZ thread = #1132 and #1137and #1147) to understand better the choices of the other participants.
Thanks a lot for involving your brother. Very valuable information! Has he also seen my product? Happy to get feedback:
Yes, that makes sense - sell in phases, with each time rising sell prices.
Probably very different from non-inet companies because the dividens-software makes it so easy to do it?
But with a weekly payment the sums are so little, how does that look? Feels more like "crypto mining" then.
I will do a quick overview about compound interest, below (#34). Stay tuned :-)
Thanks, mind808crime, for your work, time, attention, ideas - very much appreciated!