1. Lisk is raising more funds partially due to the different timing. When we started the crowdsale Bitcoin was still in a slump and was just starting to go upwards, which make a lot of people unwilling to spend them. Ethereum hadn't 20x'ed yet, it was at like $1.5 with hodlers, so no new crypto-rich people.
You know i love iota and i have supported this project from the beginning, but i don't agree with this.
Lisk is rising more founds because they use a lot of Marketing and all the ico procedure is easy and user friendly.
Iota crowdslaes was more advanced user oriented and without any marketing supporting the ICO.
We actually had more marketing than Lisk had, way more articles written and followers, but yes we did not go all out on forum marketing, because IOTA is a serious project, we did not want to attract as many speculators as possible.
I am not sure I agree that it was more 'advanced', sure it was not a login like their sale is, but all you needed to do was deposit X btc into an address and make sure it was from an address you you had control over.
It's undeniable that bitcoin's boost and subsequent stabilization + ethereum 20xing had a lot to do with it imo.
But honestly it's not even a discussion I care about. I gave Max free advice prior to them launching Lisk and wished him good luck. We may end up competing (I see they are suddenly focusing on IoT which he never mentioned to me), but I don't really see them as competitors, we're doing something entirely different.
