NEM Battle Plan
This is another great post! I agree with everything you are saying. What you have laid out is a very good road map. Clearly brainstormed well.
As far as targeting a tech savy group. I think we should airdrop NEM on MIT like bitcoin did. It is a very localized market. It is the exact demographic that would like it and think it is cool. If it works out, I say we hit Harvard and Boston University with airdrops. That would mean we have blanketed three corners of Boston.
Taking over the world starts one neighbourhood at a time. When two countries fight, they don't throw bombs randomly over a country. That is exactly what all other altcoins and bitcoin are doing. They are dispersing themselves all over the world, a little bit here and a little bit there. When a general is in charge with strategic knowledge, he pics one beach, one town, one front to attack. Then when he has it, he goes after another target. One at a time until the whole country falls, and then the next country.
Crypto currency is an entirely new concept, and new way of thinking about money. It is very different than other technologies. Think back to the introductions of phones or electricity. Phones weren't just put all over the world one at a time, they were introduced small market by small market. The same with electricity. The same with plumbing. The same with internet. And so on. Crypto is just as revolutionary as these and is just as new and strange. Before people had electricity, they didn't think they needed it. The same with phones. The same with internet. And so the same is with cryto. The world does not want to just embrace this idea. It doesn't think it needs it. Actually, they sit around and laugh at us and make jokes. But we can show them. We can do it one market at a time. After the first market falls, the second is easier, and the third easier after that. After a while later markets will beg to be introduced.
Your points are right on target. I think arguably one of the best strategic places we should "conquer" is Silicon Valley. In some ways Silicon Valley resembles the old Rome. It has gathered an impressive amount of smart and wealthy people who seem to decide the course of the world in matters of innovation.
1 Further more I think Universities are of very high strategic importance and certainly fit into long term/high impact marketing and real effect on our movement. To understand the strategic importance, just consider this: "The report on 2011 survey, sponsored by the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, estimates that 39,900 active companies can trace their roots to Stanford. If these companies collectively formed an independent nation, its estimated economy would be the worlds 10th largest. Extrapolating from survey results, those companies have created an estimated 5.4 million jobs and generate annual world revenues of $2.7 trillion. " - Stanford University's Economic Impact via Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2 Indeed it would be important to plant a NEM seed in at least two Universities: MIT and Standford. However we should not only give NEM for free, but go one step further and organize some creative events to attract the great minds/entrepreneurs/developers/hackers. One such event would be a hackathon for building the best app upon our blockchain, another could be an event where people should come up with the most innovative business ideas to incorporate NEM. A lot more can be done - you name it. If we manage to plant some NEM clubs in these Universities I think we could also kindle an interesting and intelligent discussion regarding our technological innovation, regarding our economic innovation(equality experiment) and regarding our social innovation(the NEM movement).
References
1 Here is a brilliant essay expressing why this may be the case.
2 Here is the whole study containing that data.