False. We got 0 investors. We got buyers of software, software that they should focus on making useful (for themselves). This is why we are actually spending OUR time VOLUNTARILY to setup the community, get companies on board, get marketing done, get events setup, which got nothing to do with software. It got to do with us wanting (by our own volition) to grow the ecosystem, which we have NO obligation to do.
The backend client has been done and we're actively doing testing, the community wanted a glossy front-end so we decided to give it one, which caused delay, but in this time we did more testing and optimized IOTA further, so nothing has really been lost.
But don't think for a second that we should just pretend the emperor hath new clothes and that those who spend more time speculating on the value of the software post-launch rather than actually doing anything to achieve this, somehow got 'true intentions' in regards to growing IOTA as an ecosystem. This is why I have been so blunt towards them, to not have a scenario where we got tons of people complaining about things they got no right to complain about.
So yes, like we said before we even announced the crowdsale: the community has to do their own work to grow the eocsystem, we make the software. All these extra relationships, companies etc. is us being community members, not something we owe anyone.
Totally reasonable and good to make that clear right now. There are plenty of entities interested in making the extra relationships work - you don't need to do all the heavy lifting yourself.
Indeed and I got A LOT of really big and exciting news that will be made available quite soon, but I don't want the commuity to become dependent on me, CfB or just another handful of people. None of us have any plans of suddenly ceasing to continue to grow IOTA and the ecosystem, but it needs to be a community effort. Everyone needs to understand that the more they put in, the more they get out.