OK if adequate amount of steem has been burned

OK if adequate amount of steem has been burned

There's no company so when people pay for a pro-service where does the money go?

We will be incorporated before receiving money for the pro-service. So the money will go to the company's new bank account. Hence why it was mentioned that incorporation is in progress, as we plan to have it for the pro service, which is also the first time where we will truly benefit from having a company.

Specify what Legal entity is this project being run under. If none, then please provide names and addresses of individuals who are responsible for the project. Details can be provided privately if you do not want your addresses on the blockchain.

Company expected to be a LLC. Details on addresses sent privately.

Specify what Legal entity is this project being run under. If none, then please provide names and addresses of individuals who are responsible for the project

Delegation received (purpose)

Delegation received (purpose)

These seem like your own requirements rather than something that Ned said. Was there direct communication on this?

There were no terms of delegation provided by Steemit Inc or Ned other than to use common sense regarding what would be a bad use of the delegation and trusted us not to misuse it. However, we did provide Steemit Inc with a 13 slide power point pitch deck and presentation explaining our idea for SteemPress and how we would use a delegaiton. Since the delegation was granted on the basis of this presentation, we consider it to be the terms, or promise that we made to Ned/Steemit Inc, until other conditions are made.

Delegation received (purpose)

Delegation received (purpose)

Delegation received (purpose)

Your market fit focuses on the items in the below KPI's, The committee proposes to focus your project deliverables on the following KPIs:

How many word press blog spots have incorporated SteemPress (primarily by people who are new to Steem).
How much engagement & commenting from steem community to steempress owners is achieved?

Please provide practicable and realistic targets and dates for achieving these.

We assume you meant to say that "our KPIs actually seems more like there aren't enough curation trails...". We agree that going forward, a new KPI on user growth would be more ideal. The main reason this was not originally included is because we have had a healthy userbase with which to harvest learning on how our product had to improve in order to attract quality WordPress blogs, sustain new users, and scale sustainably. Growing our userbase has therefore not been a priority until the objectives mentioned in our more recent roadmap post have been met.

We are open to community feedback on our growth strategy, which is now public, but still believe that growth comes after key bottlenecks and obstacles have been understood and dealt with.

We propose changing 1 KPI to the following: "Number of successful referrals". With the goal of reaching 100 by the end of November.

The current plan is to expand the team to include two more members (One person for design and front-end dev, and one person for marketing and communication). While we would love for this to happen as soon as possible, it is also crucial that they are the right individuals that fits well in with the team. Again we are open for community suggestions and would love to hear from anyone interested in joining the team.

SteemPress has also had volunteering moderators since the beginning, currently numbered at 3.

No. But this could be made a KPI once the pro version is launched.

Currently SteemPress pro is in closed beta, we purposefully only allowed 2 teams to use it to make sure that it's as close to perfect as possible before launching it. The target is 100 pro customers during Q1 2020

We will install numerous incentives for the blogs we onboard to buy STEEM and/or hold the Steem Power they earn. One way is through our new gamified curation system where curation will depend on numerous factors including minnows who choose to buy and power up Steem power. We also market to our users that owning stake is crucial to drive engagement on their Steem powered comment section and allowing them to incentivise positive engagement and reader retention, which will make them buy more STEEM. This is opposite to marketing STEEM as a currency you earn in order to sell as all front ends currently do, we want to present it as a resource you want in order to power your blog. Finally, our discover dashboard and notification system will give increased exposure to curators with a decent amount of Steem Power (we will only show notifications when users receive an upvote worth more than a set amount i.e 0.20$). The goal is to showcase that Steem Power can help bring more visibility to your blog not only through higher self-votes resulting in higher ranking on one's own posts, but also through being able to do more frequent and more valuable curation of other users with similar interests.

These are some examples of how we plan to incentivise buying STEEM and holding Steem Power and includes smaller users as well as larger blogs. More advanced plans will follow the release of the pro version, as well as our plans for future SMT consulting and integration once SMTs are here.

This project will bring in more value by bringing much needed exposure to Steem. We believe SteemPress is one of the only projects that can easily scale and reach any community or niche. This makes Steem visible to investors and users, and by incentivising our users to buy Steem and curate people we drive a virtuous circle where people are easily omboarded and buy Steem to do the same.

KPI Progress Measurement

KPI Progress Measurement

Over the past year we've had over 300k comments on steempress posts

In terms of target we aim to double engagement by the end of 2019. Then we aim to go 5x in Q1 2020.

KPI Progress Measurement

KPI Progress Measurement

KPI Progress Measurement

it would be good to add two more KPIs:
1) how many word press blog spots have incorporated SteemPress.
2) how much engagement & commenting from steem community to blogspot owners is achieved?
Please provide practicable and realistictargets and dates for achieving these

KPI Progress Measurement

What's the business now? How are you incentivizing yourselves or others to bring in new Word Press communities?

We have recently released a complete referral system to do just that.

Can you do a token distribution with an equity token instead of powering up your individual accounts with STEEM from Steem Power delegation provided by steemit inc?

While this could be done, we do not believe it would serve any purpose before SMTs are live. It would also require extensive work in order to ensure a token model that treats all parties involved fairly while also considering our future plans and would thus not be a wise use of time at the moment.

1) Please specify if you will provide other services to the steem community until the project is in a position to make a token offering?
2) What stops Steem Press from leaving Steem?

For clarity: The idea of a SteemPress token offering is a secondary priority and not key to our current or future plans. We want to make it as easy and impactful as possible for new websites to integrate with Steem and use STEEM as a currency rather than our own token.

SteemPress already relies heavily on key Steem features that are unique in the blockchain ecosystem. So there wouldn't be any way for us to leave Steem even if we wanted to. We are open to sign a non competing agreement that prevents us from leaving Steem for as long as we have a delegation + 6 months after the delegation runs out.

This project has already had a delegation for 1 year, this will make a total of 3 years.Does the team agree that this is acceptable?
Above 12 months extension is stated, but here it is 24 months

We agree that this is a fair amount of time. It was, however, unclear if the stated 2 year limit mentioned earlier included prior delegation time or not. Hence why we wrote 1-2 years. We are requesting a 12 months extension which we then assume can be re-evaluated to potentially be extended at a later time.

This is a giant delegation and not getting much return on it from this key metric. What plans do you have to turn this around?

We have recently released a document which describes in length how we will achieve that : https://steemit.com/steempress/@steempress/onboarding-the-masses-steempress-updated-roadmap-and-growth-strategy

We also quite recently launched our new comment section with Steem account signup. Having more influential blogs change their comment section and encourage their followers to create a Steem account to engage better with their content will be the second key part.

An extensive summary of our growth strategy can be found in our post Onboarding the masses - SteemPress updated roadmap and growth strategy

Our largest user in terms of following would be @tommyrobinson whose website tr.news gets 400,000 unique impressions each month. Discussions are currently ongoing to also add the SteemPress comment section to also allow Steem account login and signup directly on the blog

We are still working on the list, and we don't believe that it will be done by the 8th.

Please clarify what service you provide that falls unders the scope of your project for these clients.

No stgeemian is delegating to steempress and we are not planning on releasing a system akin to "delegate to us to get x/y" as we believe it's very close to a bidbot model with more steps.

We provide to all of our free "clients" the capabilty to easily connect their blog to steem and benefit from all from all of the steem features directly from their blog.

Please provide more long term milestones since there is a lot happening in 2019, but nothing in 2020

SteemPress does not plan for more than half a year at a time.