Just one question please with all the publicity and momentum Lisk and waves are having at the moment and knowing Lisk will be released by the end of this month and Wave the following month, don't you think you should launch IOTA before they do if not IOTA will be hidden in the shadows of WAVE and LISK, its just an opinion, I know I can be wrong
I don't think we really need to worry about that. We should not worry about anything happening in the crypto community world (which is more useful in the beginning for the fundraising and alpha/beta testing and bringing in enthusiasts). Especially I should not worry about the speculation section of the crypto community world because IOTA is all about how to be adopted by the real business world - IoT industry. Our motto should be business, business, and business.
Lisk and Waves are the good examples for what would happen if a cryptocurrency could not get adopted by the real business (having no real business models) and is stuck in the cyrpto world for long time. Someone else will come to rebrand it and try again to get it adopted by the real business world because some investors just won't sit there and wait and expect to write off their investment (but you have to pay for this new efforts if you want to catch up). They want to see the profit of their investment. I guess that if their new efforts fail someone else will come again to rebrand it. But I am not saying everyone will end up making profit. I am saying if you as an investor don't do your best to get your cryptocurrecy adopted and bootstrapped in the real business world you will definitely lose one way or the other.
What we should worry about is how many business leads we can generate each month, how many real business partners we can find each month, how many business transactions we can conduct each month, how much data, transactions, and revenues have been created in the IOTA network each month? Just like the real companies you are working for do. Otherwise, the same type projects like Lisk and Waves will be created out of IOTA protocol. That will mean you, as an investor, have to either write off your investment or pay one more time to try one more time.
So if you are an IOTA investor, you have to help this project by either donating your time or donating your money or both if you want to make profit from it. If you are not able to help in making a sale or building a real business partnership you better donate money to hire someone who can.