You are designing your business model around DASH. Thats a great thing, however it isn't the DASH ecosystem which should pay and fund your learning curve.
The work you did on the vending machine was great, no one can take that from you. That doesn't give you the right to be funded to learn how to grow your business further.
If you want to develop systems that evolve the DASH ecosystem, Good luck to you.
DASH should not be responsible for the cost of such a project.
Again, there is no business here. It is a research and development effort that will create open source software that anybody can use. The "learning curve" that the blockchain is funding benfits everybody. This team is not selling anything.
Exactly! This team will research and develop tools to be used by someone who wants to do business using Dash network.
It's like a new non-core development team, a POS/retail oriented one.