Investor #1 wants a good company, complete with a brick and mortar establishment and marketing built for a growing company. Something that will stand out more with better transparency. #1 is probably thinking to himself does anyone even know what these guys real names are, what they look like anything?
Investors #2, 3 enjoy the the lemonade stand style structure currently implemented and stand by good ol buddy systems of honesty and good neighborly business practices. Problem is where is the lemonade stand? In a basically anonymous series of internet forums...
For me, it's not about this distinction. I'm a patient Investor #1 who prefers good solutions to unreasonable demands.
We could also discuss #2 vs. #1, but I don't observe that the recent debate is focused on that.
Well you got to look at it from a potential investor standpoint too. This isnt like Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) where you know exactly what your getting into.
Here your going on the word of something all but anonymous. While it was nice 200 some odd pages ago to throw a few nickels and dimes about in a lemonade startup, this company is much deeper then that now and that is a good thing.
Now it just really needs to catch up with itself, asicminer is basically in a battle with avalon much like Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) and Apple Inc (AAPL) for supremacy in the asic market. BFL is due to the nature of all their hangups, the red headed step child of the industry. Sorry BFL but for all intents and purposes you know this is true;)
Yet we hardly know a thing about any of them?