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lution as if you’re just a developing house, but you already have the basis. Raise your money that way, and you never have to spend money on an ICO. There’s many ways people can get money. People say, oh, I want to do an ICO. Well no, actually, you want money. Nobody wants to go through the pain of an ICO right now, and nobody should have to do that. There’s a lot of scammers out there, there’s people trying to steal your Telegram gro- up, there’s people trying to steal your Ether that you raised. Nobody wants to do a public ICO. I mean, there might be some mentally ill people who want to do an ICO, but you shouldn’t want to do one. You should just want to raise money the easiest and most appro- priate way for your venture. So, that’s the first thing. I try to convince them that there’s better ways. Then the other thing I do is, talk to them about their business model, and I try to tell them what the holes are in their business model, the obvious holes, and see who the- ir competitors are. There’s always obvious competitors, there’s always reasons why you should be rethinking things. So, this works really well for getting out the people who will never finish writing a white paper. People say to me, how can you write a whi- te paper for somebody? You don’t know their business. I’m like, yeah, I didn’t say I make up a white paper. I didn’t say I’m a science fiction writer. There are people who write biographies... there’s something called ‚autobiographies’. But most biographies are not autobiogra- phies. So, you could say to the writer, how can you write a biography?! You’re not him. that you can do that as a customized so-