If you want to create a business off the back of DASH do it with your own funding and your own steam.
Don't lose sight of what DASH is trying to achieve. It is not ready for the type of adoption you are asking funding for. Further more it's not the kind of growth you want.
It should not be the focus of DASH to figure out how to make it mainstream. it should be the focus of DASH to design a product that others want to make mainstream..
With all due respect, that's what this proposal IS trying to do. The goal is to create open source software that can be used by any retail application. Vending, gas pumps, mom and pop stores, chain stores, online retail. ALL RETAIL. The goal of this project is not to make money selling soda.
The focus of dash should be on Dash. If Dash focuses its efforts on development and creating a solid baseline / structure. Other companies will develop around Dash and create businesses that can utilise the technology.
The proposal feels like throwing money at people for the sake of throwing money at people.
If you walked into an office and said "give me money because I'll use it.. Honestly"
There is no company in the world that works that way.
I understand the requirement to create a decentralised project. Please do not take offence to this.
None of you are qualified to run / expand a company.
This proposal is not creating a company, it is creating open source software that can be used for retail. The people involved are more than capable of doing this.