donaldmcintyre

However crazy, and whatever happens to this specific DAO, this is a breakthrough event in computer science and human organization IMHO.

The part that impacted me in terms of presentation was the data:

- With 160 million packs the US transitions to renewable energy.

- With 900 million packs the world transitions to renewable energy.

- With 2 billion packs everything in the world, including transport and heating, may transition to renewable energy.

The general pitch is a classic fear mongering strategy used in sales for decades:

1. Beware, something very bad will happen to you.

2. But there is a solution.

3. I have that solution so you need to buy it from me.

In finance it is used to sell insurance, retirement, and trust products.

Hi kjkdf, I did some changes, I would appreciate your opinion about them if you have some time:

http://etherplan.com/etherplan-pitch-deck-v6.pdf

Thx!

Fixed, thank you!

Thank you so much for the comments, since I come from finance and the Bitcoin/Ethereum community I evidently bypassed some concepts that need to be explained.

>After reading the deck I have no idea what exactly do you do.

This is unacceptable and I'm definitely going to add information about investment plans vs smart investment plans.

>Wealthfront and Betterment provide a service similar to what I think you plan to do except I understand how they work: they take my money and invest it in stock or bonds based on my risk profile.

It is exactly that + a trust service that will do what you instruct in case the user dies or some other specific event. But with AI smart contracts on the blockchain.

Once you create the SIP (smart investment plan) it is incorruptible and resilient in the network. I will ad info about that!

>My advice: make it clear how exactly are plan to grow $N dollars I give you into $N + $M dollars.

Excellent, this is amazing advice. Will add a slide with this.

>...fake money like Bitcoin...

It's not a new coin. Ethereum is rather a distributed blockchain network like Bitcoin, but built for smart programs. Developers can build decentralized apps (dapps) and the logic resides in the network. Consequently you can build decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), smart contracts, and other distributed stuff that is resilient and may replace some traditional services.

Thx so much again! Will alert you here when I improve the deck.

Best

Hi HN, I'm a newbie and impressed by the community!

I present the pitch deck of my startup Etherplan. I made it similar to the super pitch deck of Airbnb:

http://www.slideshare.net/benjaminevans/air-bed-breakfast-pi...

I read on Quora that it's a good idea to open it for discussion and to improve it.

Your feedback is more than welcome!

They do and very frequently. A big chunk of intraday trading of currencies and bonds is done by bots that connect through APIs to brokers like interactive brokers.

There a some mutual fund companies that have "black box" investment managers, which are computer programs that manage whole portfolios and trade their institutional accounts at investment banks.

Program trading on the NYSE has been active since the 1980s.

Ethereum components are:

- cryptocurrency - blockchain - consensus mechanism - miners - virtual machine - programmability - browser client

As an open source project it leaves it open to developers, entrepreneurs and organizations to use it and create the applications they wish.

All external political and social dramatization is personal opinion and judgement.