Having thought it through, Viscount Rost decided to change the plan.
The new plan was very simple: add a review process. He would hire someone relatively reliable to screen out projects that merely copied others' business models or were exceptionally bizarre. He would then find time to personally review whatever remained.
Only after deciding who could meet in person would he arrange a real-world meeting, then determine how much to invest, how to invest it, and how much equity to take.
Of course, he knew that this approach carried a slight chance of filtering out potentially promising projects during the first stage, but there was no helping that.
Still, Viscount Rost added a patch to address the issue.
That was, if they truly had confidence in their projects, they could try them themselves first and submit them again after achieving a little success.
Projects that had already begun implementation but lacked funding were naturally more appealing than projects that existed only as concepts.
Many people were stunned by the new system Viscount Rost released.
But once they understood why he had done so, the vast majority expressed their support.
Who did not know that Viscount Rost was one of the busiest people in the world? Rost Territory Group Company, Dawn Southlands Development Company, Minister of Finance of the Dawn Kingdom, Lord of Rost Territory, shareholder of the Golden Merchants' Guild, primary leader of the Technology God Church... Every one of those identities represented an enormous workload.
Under such circumstances, having to deal with information from so many people would leave anyone willing but unable.
Although this decision made things somewhat more difficult, it would also filter out many unreliable people and give the reliable ones a few more opportunities.
Anyone could imagine that if he were wading through junk information,