On your marks!
By the time The Buccaneer Network launches it will already have a thriving community and the trust machine will be actively disrupting the industry. We will accomplish this in two ways. Firstly, we will take a page out of Stack Overflow’s playbook and build a solid community before the official launch. We will do so by inviting some of the most outspoken opponents of the incumbent operators to take part in our closed beta. At a very general level people automatically support that which they had a hand in creating. So by bringing in these vocal opponents, most of whom have well established blog followings, we will have the opportunity to learn from their experiences, given them some input into the development of The Buccaneer Network and allow them to invite further participants into the closed beta. In this manner, these people become invested in our success while we get to leverage their existing networks. The influence they have over development is then off course confined to The Buccaneer Network, while the trust machine itself will not be affected. For the record, Stack Overflow is currently the 53rd placed global website.