The real risk begins now as we are both leaving comfortable jobs this summer (Orange in the case of Howo, and the European Space Agency in my case) to pursue SteemPress and developing Steem projects full-time.

It is true that delegations help a lot here. However, on the flip side, they come with the added risk that if your business model relies purely on it as a source of income then you will go to zero if for any reason you should lose the delegation.

But it is a great asset of the Steem blockchain that any large stakeholder (or community of stakeholders) can help StartUps get going.