Any idea what the expected price on launch is? Or is it too soon to ask??
Depends on investors. I analyzed previous projects and expect at least x10 in a few weeks. But less experienced investors might sell at x3 or less. You never know.
In your x3 to x10 analysis, did you factor in that people are trusting a college student with millions of euros?
Can he compete with Vitalik as a CEO if he's balancing this project and 40+ hours per week trying to finish an engineering degree?
For your interest. I'm full time Lisk. I obviously canceled all my exams. Right now I'm working over 100 hours for Lisk every week. I cannot compete with Vitalik on mathematical/theoretical dicussions. If we talk about user experience I'm miles ahead. For other characteristics I don't know Vitalik good enough.
Personally, I like to compare Lisk's approach to Apple's. We build an all-round solution here: Dapps, Sidechains, Dapp Store, Clients, Explorer, Faucet etc. with the best possible user experience for our users.
Medium long-term (6-12 months) we are tackling the mainstream crowd. Looking outside of the crypto-currency community, getting fresh blood into Lisk. To do this, we need to make some drastic changes and bold moves. However, Oliver and I definitely know what sort of applications a "regular user" can manage and what areas of a crypto-currency platform should better be hidden from them.