>>That's perfectly fine. I am fully content to continue forward on my own.

That wasn't the message I sought to convey. If the customer is always right, then you need to expect that the customer has learned to be hesitant. You can reassure small investors by declaring a necessary total so people can tell whether it will be reached and are not out of pocket it the required $ isn't achieved, or you can find people with deeper pockets who probably are going to want to see something more defined than just $ disappearing into an effort. Especially when you've got Lianja out there offering a live product with defined fees in exchange for a working product.