No pool at launch = failure.
Whats wrong with solo-mining to the wallet? I like to find blocks at the beginning. Pools will post their invites as the thread builds. I think that is a proper launch. Let the early adopters get some blocks.
This distribution systems works in a different way. With normal coins u get less coins when diff rise (block rewards stay the same), but here u will always get the same amount of coins, no matter the difficulty (block rewards scale with diff)
first coin with this kind of block reward i think.