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December 02, 2017, 01:44:23 PM |
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Seeking the opinions of experienced traders / investors.
I'm the founder and CEO of Nemo Power Tools. We produce the world's first and only line of submersible electric power tools. Our tools are used by commercial divers, pool technicians, oil & gas industry and so on. We have our own factory in China with 30 employees and about 100 distributors selling our products to dealers and customers around the world. We're currently the only company in this niche market and doing well.
In 2018 we are launching our first consumer facing products. We developed products that we're very excited about and we're planning to be the next Makita, Dewalt or Hilti in just a few years.
I also invest in bitcoin / ether and I'm very interested in the crypto currency revolution.
I've been toying with the idea of converting a large part of our supply chain to working with bitcoin as we start marketing new products to a wider consumer market. Several of our suppliers will be willing to accept bitcoin as payment for raw materials and parts. We can easily implement bitcoin payment options with all of our dealers and in this way have a full cycle from raw materials to consumers around the world without converting to any fiat currency. This will of-course save us ALOT of money and won't expose us much to price changes of BTC/USD/RMB.
We're currently raising a debt round from our existing investors and we have a term sheet agreed upon and basically ready to go. But I'm thinking about doing something different: Raising the round in crypto. This probably won't be an ICO since I don't see a reason to create any tokens for the deal.
This is my initial idea: Investors are offered to lend Bitcoin or Ether in exchange for a convertible loan agreement. The agreement is for a period of 2 years with 4 percent yearly compounding interest. At the end of the period, investors can choose to either withdraw the bitcoin/ether + interest, or convert the loan to regular shares of the company. If bitcoin appreciates in value during this time, I'm sure investors will be happy to receive their coins back + interest. Existing share holders such as myself will be happy not to have their shares diluted much in this situation. If bitcoin crashes, more investor may choose to convert their loan to regular shares of the company.
I plan to participate in the round myself as an investor, so i'm naturally trying to find a formula that makes sense to all parties involved.
The coins from the round will be converted in part to USD/RMB to finance the production run of our new products, and some will be kept in crypto form in order to kickstart the cycle of crypto use from raw materials to customers.
At this point this is just an idea and I'm very open to any input from experienced crypto investors. Is there something I may be overlooking in this plan which should be taken into consideration in your opinion? As crypto investors, is this an offer that you would find interesting?
Thank you for your time.
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