After NEM's launch, the initial stakeholders only have two options, hold or dump. We can give them one other option, spend.
Crowd-funding sites are very popular right now. If we use Kickstarter as an example, it's global rank is 822 and it's rank in the US is 387. Kickstarter has several limitations.
-Only project creators from certain countries are permitted.
-Charity and awareness campaigns are prohibited.
-Projects must fit within one of 13 categories.
-High fees, they take a 5% cut of the pledged funds plus Amazon Payments get 3-5%.
-You are only backing projects, the terms and conditions do not allow investment returns (no movie distribution rights or dividends).
We could create our own crowd-funding site based on NEM, without these limitations. Project creators from all countries will be welcome and they will have the option of offering dividends. The fees will be lower.
Our NEM crowd-funding platform could be the first "company" on the Asset Exchange. For now let's call this company "NEMfunder". The fee will support the operating costs (administration, marketing, hosting, etc) the remaining profit will be distributed to NEMfunder shareholders.
Instead of just saving or selling their NEM, the stakeholders will now be able to buy shares of NEMfunder. If your plan is to hold NEM, a better option might be to buy some NEMfunder shares. Owning NEMfunder shares denominated in NEM will give you leverage. In the future, if the value of NEM increases threefold and the NEMfunder share price doubles the value of your NEM holdings would multiply by 6 times.
If we issue 10,000,000 shares, it may look something like this:
NEMfunder total shares= 10,000,000
70% internal shares= 7,000,000 (80% for employee salaries and 20% expansion fund)
30% external shares= 3,000,000 for public offering issued on the NEM Asset Exchange.
Employees of NEMfunder will receive internal shares. We will be needing developers, marketers and a stay-at-home CEO. Anyone on the NEM dev team is invited. To add to the credibility and momentum of this IPO, anyone in the NEM core team is invited.
To get this going I registered
www.NEMfunder.com and
www.NEMstarter.com (also
NXTfunder.com, in case our neighbor NXT likes it).
What is the next step to bring NEMfunder into existence?
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