Thanks MiningHabit for your support all of these years. It has indeed been a long road chock-full of challenges.
The short and sweet answer is that we have not acquired the investment we are looking for in order to push DNotes forward and the pushback from investors is mostly that we are not a proven revenue generating company. Not exactly surprising, but we were certainly hopeful we would find the right investor that could see our vision and potential. So the focus now is to make DNotes Global a revenue generating company. We intend to do that with HERo, not only as a revenue generating media site but also building a collaborative membership program into it. The project is well under way and we should be able to launch it fairly soon. In the meantime, we have been growing our network in preparation for the launch.
Nailed it Joe. I noticed that the Twitter account posted a few summary slides the day and moments before my post. Those were a nice set of broad answers, but left up my post since I think there was still some getting down to brass tacks that the board could benefit from.
Glad I did, since this is a great answer. To the point, and a frank admission of the main fundraising pain point.
Are there other irons in the fire, beyond HERo? With initiatives like MakerGirl, I'm a huge advocate for female empowerment, and appreciate this initiative ever since it was CryptoMoms.
How's the custom software business going? And the consulting services business? What are the plans to grow those, and can you tell us on the board a little bit more about them (not so much in terms what they are, but more in terms of how we're executing on growing them)?
Thanks MiningHabit, appreciate it. We are solely focused on HERo at the moment, I'll do my best to walk you through the experiences that have led to these decisions.
HERo quickly became the focus of our efforts after starting our outreach program. Finding both women to add to our contributors and groups that were very interested in working with us and partnering, with our mission and vision in mind, very quickly. The amount of support, interest, and people interested to help us and work with us is well beyond our anticipations. I would highly recommend checking out our contributor and partnership kits:
https://nextgenhero.io/HERo_Contributor_Kit.pdf https://nextgenhero.io/Partnership_Kit.pdfThese will give you a much better feel for why it is and will become overwhelmingly popular. Our approach with HERo falls directly in line with our beliefs.
When you look at the contributors, the companies, the projects listed on HERo, know that the majority of them we are actively in communication with and working with their projects, among countless others. Alan has been swamped with communications and reports back as many as 50 messages waiting for him on linkedin at any given time.
The consulting services segments of our plans need a foundation to work with. Things like name and brand association, networks to open doors, and the like. That base could easily be DNotes or Four Pillars, and they will certainly be part of it, but the initial conduit through which we believe it will grow most quickly is likely to be HERo.
We have always taken the position that digital currency is much more than just a technology and used as a speculative trading vehicle, having wide ranging implications on the economy and society as a whole, and the solutions to mass adoption must reach well beyond that technology and speculative trading. It's not a popular approach or one that is easy to win people over in this industry, but I can assure you the majority of people outside of this industry who inquire about what we are doing with DNotes understand the approach we are taking and are very interested.
