While I agree people shouldn't just trust me blindly; I am a lot more trustworthy than you are at this point in time.
I have been a part of and actually contributed to the cryptocurrency community. I received part of the developer bounty funds for my work on the BoottleXCP Counterparty GUI. I have worked closely with JahPowerBit one of the major contributors to the Counterparty Counterwallet system on that.
I have a history here and all though I may be kind of a dick some times; People can go back and check my posts from months ago to see the kind of person that I am. I believe people will see that I am honest and fair.

You, not so much history.

Me handing over funds to you first = Protecting the developer
Me holding funds until you've handed over wallet/coins to investors = Protecting the investors

As previously mentioned, I would be protecting investor interests in all cases.

regarding restarting the IPO... it "wouldn't be fair" to the whole 6 people that have invested 1 BTC so far?

You do know that until eXoCoin accepted escrow it got maybe a couple BTC and after allowing escrow it got over 200 BTC in total?
If this project really is what you claim it to be, you are selling yourself short.
The only reason I can think of to intentionally do that is poor business sense or malicious intentions.