Generally investors want to gain an advantage in tokens presales, mining in some manner, or simply a chunk of coins. Any of these can imbalance the equilibrium we are aiming to maintain. We have not directly worked with ICOs but they seem to have a whole set of eyes on them now and probably more so in the future and we aim to stay out of the public eye. So that summarizes the issues. If we had the funds to hire 1 or 2 helpers fpr our dev we could probably be done in under a month and move onto launching the coin on the institutional platform. However, we would like to maintain our soul. If anyone has ideas on how to approach the subject let us know we'll consider it.
I guess the least intrusive of those options is giving them a chunk of coins. Or just continue on without helpers if you feel that it would imbalance the equilibrium. This is definitely a tough position though.