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This is accurate. My startup is blockchain funded, but we have a serious money-making business model. But some people still want the sexy smart contract tech decentralized sound clips to get really hyped.

People give us a hard time because our core team is anonymous (key part of being an extrajurisdictional company). It's a fair criticism! And the most obvious.

Bancor had a bunch of smiling faces making up their top team. Does not help investors at all.

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> This is accurate. My startup is blockchain funded, but we have a serious money-making business model. But some people still want the sexy smart contract tech decentralized sound clips to get really hyped.

Attracting people to invest in your venture who don't actually have a reasonable capability to determine whether it's a good idea is unethical.

If the "sexy smart contract tech" is a compromise to convince your investors to invest in your startup which they would already have been interested in that's one thing.

But it's unethical to convince them to invest solely on the basis of an aspect of your business plan which you yourself do not believe in.

Exactly! We do not play that game. We're clear that our app uses traditional tech and isn't some magic dApp fairy dust.

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