Let's give the OP an opportunity to clear things up. Please could you disclose/clarify...
What price the private investors paid for their shares.
Whether they will have the same management fee deducted.
What insider knowledge, news ahead of public release, or otherwise preferential treatment might be available to some or all private investors.
On what basis the private investors were given the opportunity to be so.
Whether the private investors give or receive any other benefits as part of the deal.
Whether any of this is against the IPO rules, either your own or those of the exchanges.
To what extent the operators of the exchanges running the IPO were made aware of any of this.
Thanks.
First and foremost, I would like to remind everyone that this is not a traditional IPO. These are not traditional securities nor voting shares of the company. Having said that, we respect the rules set by securities regulators because they are very important to mitigate conflict of interest and protect interests of investors. The self-governance spirit of BitCoin is observed and practiced by DigiMex.
In terms of investment process in the traditional sense, I would highly recommend everyone to read this on wiki to learn more about private equity investments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equityIn general, when you want to start a company and you need funding, there are several ways to do it. One way is to approach ‘private equity’ investors. These investors are the ones that believe in you at the earliest phase of the business. Sometimes, they are called cornerstone investors because they provide the chunk of capital that you need to start your business. Because they believe in your ability and your integrity, they are willing to take on the risk by investing early. Their trust is also rewarded by a higher rate of return on investment if the company succeeds. That would only seem fair to those early investors.
Before DigiMex was formed, much time was spent to gather a critical amount of capital in order to make ourselves relevant enough to negotiate with Hashfast (our supplier). We needed financial commitments from private investors and founders to make it happen.
Were their shares cheaper than the IPO price? Yes, we gave slight discounts for bulk purchases.
Would they be subject to management fees? No, IPO management fees (as previously stated) is nil, this applies to both public and private shares. The private shares’ return on this project is via dividend payouts of the farm AFTER the IPO shareholders have been paid 0.0016 BTC.
Was there insider knowledge? No and they don’t need to. They know that we are trustworthy individuals with the right abilities to execute this project AND they know we have a good relationship with HashFast.