Simply Great Information and Presentation

There are over 63000 members now, all of whom can have an impact and make an input. I think this shiny PR stuff is irrelevant. Maybe later. But the site's rapid development and fast iterations speak for itself.

The smart money will see that when it arrives

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Someone that doesn't already know what they're looking at will have no idea what they're looking at if they just stumble into Steemit in its present state. And most of the mainstream media articles I've read about Steemit are exclusively focused on the crypto world which many people just plain do not understand.
 
But the platform is innovative on so many levels that smart financial investors will see past these things to Steemit's rock solid bottom line and huge upside potential. And the much larger pool of people who want to invest _time_ in developing this upside potential are currently free to do so in any way they choose with the understanding that the value they create will be rewarded.

From my perspective, the pathway along which Steemit is currently developing makes perfect sense for any investor that wants to grow this site's value long-term and reap the benefits of this every step of the way. This developmental pathway also naturally deters the sort of person that is looking to use an investment of time or money as a device to pry money out of this community, pocket it, and walk away. Which is part of why I like it.

I have full confidence the dev team will pull this from a bland-ish beta form into a sparkling fancy version very soon. I read one post this morning about incentivizing investment, and placing ads as well.  I believe it was @juansgalt who did a video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXlg2Q8W5Ug
mentioning the long term prospects for the site, sans advertizing.
I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to hear @ned  @dan &  @summon views in this issue.  
Take care and keep up the great work! I have high hopes for steemit.

I agree that communication could be better, however it's important to note that the platform is still in ***beta***.

Sure it's great that a beta project has gained amazing traction (testament to how huge the potential is) however I don't think the Steem Team should be detracted from getting the site to production level.

Personally I cannot stand crypto projects that have fantastic looking roadmaps yet nothing to show. Most turn out to be vapourware.

It's refreshing to have a project that just gets on with getting real shit done! Learning lessons along the way and producing a product that people actually want.

I would think that large investors would first look at the Steem Dollar.  10% interest.  That by itself could be the big idea that gets Steemit noticed.

You're mostly spot on with your remarks imo, but I suspect it's mostly down to the team being swamped with work at the moment. I know they're working on hiring more people and have already hired at least one developer, and I'm sure more will come soon.

Recruitment just doesn't happen overnight, these things take time.

### Are you an investor? Have you pitched to one?
My guess is no.  I HAVE. 
PR is great, but what investors look for in SV is mostly one thing: TRACTION TRACTION TRACTION.

### Steam is doing traction just fine
It's seeing an explosion of traffic and maintaining this is the most important thing they can do.  Any PR should be about bringing users.  Normal users really don't need to know all the nuances to join, and can be educated later.
### They are doing it right.

@summon is just responding with the truth.  Small, extremely skilled teams are orders of magnitude faster than big teams.  And I know from experience: I manage dev for a digital agency doing work in sports and entertainment.  these are multi-million dollar deals and the team size is under 10.  

### The info you want is often private.
Other than traction, VCs look at team.  The team at @steemit is very very experienced in the crypto realm.  @dantheman comes from bitshares and was looking at blockchain tech in the early days of bitcoin.  The rest have similar experience.

** Basically: There is nothing for them to manage.  Steemit is working about as perfect as you could hope for an alpha/beta project.

They are learning as they go, and fixing things.  But things are fine, don't worry.

I agree with some of your points (marketing, PR, team details on the website) but i think your interpretation of what was said by @summon is a bit off, my view of his comment is that he is just pointing out that the dev team we have is doing an amazing job.. he even agreed with you in the first statement and suggested that if the small team can produce such a big project imagine what a larger team could pull off. 

In relation to the statement about human resources, it does lack context; but i tend to agree, it sounds so mechanical, like when you have a work force, you have human resources... A dev *team* in my mind is more relaxed more like a loosely coupled group of individuals/team-mates striving towards the same goal. Anyway just my thoughts.

Nice suggestions i think there is some real value  in the feedback you have given. When i am assessing a project i like to find the right mix of professionalism, transparency and ability to translate the vision to me without having to trawling through the whitepaper; i like to see the team, the goals or 'edge', the road map and latest news or releases.

It seems u are personally offended by my comment - if so i apologize - this was not my intent.  You have many good points here .. pls take into your consideration that due the massive growth and success of the early beta most people at the dev team had to work in getting steemit.com tweaked and polished. So maybe the lack of updates are caused by the lack of man power currently! 

> Sir, yes, sir! I'm sure you did mention it before but I was just not paying attention. I deeply regret using this phrase. I just did not know it annoys you so much. I promise - I'll never do it again. Please forgive me. And I hope you'll still upvote my posts.

Pity to see how serious u did take this comment - we have free speech here and your comment on this is (as @steempower mentioned before) a bit off. To go one bit further IMO u are insinuate i would stop voting for your after u are getting upset on my comment and expressing that. But hehe, i'm not taking it personal, as i'm able to see you have good interests and also good ideas to work with so i value the good points by far more then the bad ones .. 
**(Maybe u noticed i have also voted for this post - so …)**

> Nice suggestions i think there is some real value in the feedback you have given. When i am assessing a project i like to find the right mix of professionalism, transparency and ability to translate the vision to me without having to trawling through the whitepaper; i like to see the team, the goals or 'edge', the road map and latest news or releases.

Let's start working together to get this achieved :)

I'm a developer myself and this post makes me cringe.

Instagram was a billion dollar company with 13 employees (including founders) when it got purchased. 

Small teams make big impacts.

I love STEEM and Steemit as well, but the official website does look like the Counterparty site rendered in blue :D