





This piece is worth a read if you are interested in GRAIN, searching for new ICOs, are passionate about decentralization & cryptocurrencies, or simply want to get a grasp of how to analyze companies from a purely business point-of-view.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introducing GRAIN

Part 2: Essential Information about GRAIN

Part 3: Valuing a Company

Part 4: SWOT Analysis

Part 5: VRIO Analysis

Part 6: TL;DR







Check my profile for the SWOT & VRIO (business) analyses of GRAIN

Part 1: Introducing ICO: What is GRAIN

This project hits a major market: Talent Acquisition.

The advent of the internet changed the talent acquisition industry forever. It has become extremely easy for companies to advertise services they need and for potential employees to advertise services they can provide.

While it may seem that technology allows for easy access to a large talent pool and easy access to available jobs, the market has become flooded with job postings and job applications. It has become difficult to strain out proper applicants and it has become increasingly easier for employers to place misleading job applications and for employees to overstate (or even fabricate) their abilities.

Expensive technological solutions run through user data to authenticate applications; employers may be able to afford this due to the benefits of economies of scale, but such a software to authenticate employers will be simply unfeasible for employees.

Increased transparency will substantially improve the hiring market as a whole.

Enter: Grain

Grain utilizes the power of the blockchain to provide transparency in the talent acquisition industry. It intends to make employment contracts transparent so all parties in an employment contract have a clear understanding of what each is getting into, and neither can slyly make any changes.

Additionally, by leveraging partnerships with other dapps, Grain can utilize the blockchain to provide transparency on the capabilities of both the employee and employer, should either side choose to offer the information. Grain can seamlessly enhance the transparency in the entire hiring process.

Grain also reduces turnover costs.

It is now easier than ever for individuals to change their job. In fact, many Americans now try as many as 19 different jobs during their working years.

In a see of applicants and job availabilities, proper matching between employees and employers has become difficult and this has led to high turnover costs for companies. Employment software and hiring managers cost money.

By making the employment contracts and the intends of all involved parties transparent, Grain reduces turnover rates and thereby reduces turnover costs.

Grain offer one last major benefit: it internalized the management of payments. Through its protocol and token, Grain issues payments to an individual the given amount of work is completed.

Grain is one technological solution for countering several problems in the talent acquisition industry.

Part 2: Essential Information

Website: https://grain.io/ Whitepaper: https://grain.io/grain-v101.pdf ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766557.0 Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/IAWYn0jj2m02434fbd73Tg Token Sale: MAR. 29Token Type: ERC20Ticker: GRAINKYC: YESAccepts: ETH1 GRAIN = $0.034 = 0.02778 EUROCan’t Participate: USA; CHINA

Part 3: What is GRAIN Worth?

Asset Valuation

Revenue Multiple

Discounted Cash Flows

A company can be valued in many ways; 3 common ways are:

I won’t give an exact figure to GRAIN as the answer to that can be highly speculative and a lot of positive or negative bias can seep in. Finding estimates of cash flows that GRAIN will generate through a view of its remote competitors might provide a heavy spread between potential valuations.

But here’s a look at what some of the existing companies in this sector are valued at:

GRAIN serves as a platform for recruitment purposes and HR solutions. Here’s are the valuations of some companies that partake in the recruitment industry:

LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion

Monster.com was sold to Randstad for $429 million

Indeed.com was sold for over $750 million to Recruit Co. Ltd.

And there are many, many regional recruitment sites in many countries in even cities; these sites are worth 100s of millions of dollars and sometimes even billions.

On the other hand, HR management software are generally products offered by well-established software companies like Oracle. Such software bring in millions for the parent companies each year.

GRAIN is entering a market with vast borders and can easily become a highly valuable company.

Part 4: GRAIN SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis sheds light on the potential of a potential project.







I’ll be analyzing whether GRAIN presents an idea that holds plentiful potential and what would its barriers be.

Strength: It is important to understand what a particular project’s strengths are; these develop into competitive advantages.

Grain is the first-mover in the blockchain sphere to target the employment process. The blockchain holds genuine value in improving the market equilibrium in the employment process.

Grain enjoys a dual benefit. While, it's the first to enter the industry from the blockchain side, there are many existing tech companies that have already made way for technological adoption in the talent acquisition process.

Grain will not have any obstacles in terms of pitching benefits of technology in the industry. Instead, it can easily boast its value additives by way of improved transparency and salary management; this will give Grain an easy penetration into the market.

Weakness: A grasp of a company’s weaknesses is important; a brilliant idea can be brought down by a single, but mighty weakness in operations, financing, marketing, or a number of other business and/or technical functionalities.

Grain's payment mechanism is to issue tokens. While the blockchain sphere is very enthusiastic about tokens, a large portion of the world's population is skeptical to about even touching crypto currencies.

However, given the exponential adoption rates of crypto currencies, the trend is vastly in favor of Grain.

But instead of betting on trends, it's be in Grain's best interest to establish partnerships with transactional dapps to ensure its token remains as liquid as possible as that would ensure no coin-skeptic workers would take a stand against payments in tokens.

Opportunity: While many industries are ripe with potential, some are cluttered with immense competition or even potential downfall due to the advent of market changes or economic shocks.

The talent acquisition and wage management markets are massive and In ever-growing demand.

Blockchain offers an easy means of improving the market equilibrium in this sector and Grain is on its way to be the first to benefit from offering blockchain solutions to companies' human resources departments.

Threats: Even the titans of a given industry face threats; the situation is generally worse for smaller projects.

Grain is entering a market where technological firms have held a continuous onslaught for decades. There are up to a dozen human resources solution companies in even the smallest countries. Localized firms and large corporation both compete in this market and often offer minor or pointless competitive edges.

Grain could become lost in the sea of technology firms that compete for a share of the human resources solutions market.

However, given that Grain has a clear distinction from the rest, it's the first blockchain solution for the industry that offers reduced turnover rates and lowered wage management costs, Grain has an impeccable competitive edge over the generic HR solutions firm.

Part 5: VRIO Analysis

VRIO analysis gives a crisp and tight snapshot of the odds of success of a project.







I’ll be analyzing whether GRAIN genuinely adds value to the overall state of cryptos and whether its value-addition is sustainable and maintainable.

Value: A project is valuable if it allows a better means of exploiting resources.

Any product that improves the market equilibrium for anything is a valuable offering.

Grain improves transparency during the hiring process and this makes it easier for workers and employers to find the most genuine mutual fit.

Grain offers the most desirable value-additives: cost savings and convenience. Companies can utilize one platform to not only hire workers but to also issue wages. Workers can seamlessly and swiftly receive payment for the work they've done.

Rarity: If a project offers something that can be attained without the blockchain, then generating market adoption will be very challenging. The offering needs to be tough to get without the aid of the blockchain.

HR solution products are not a rarity. But Grain is the first full-service product offering transparency during and management of the hiring process, while also being able to issue payments for work done.

Given the power of the blockchain, all payments and transactions will be securely stored and fully transparent.

Imitation: Imitation is a major threat to any new project and it’s important to analyze whether a project’s key aspects can easily be reproduced by copy-cats.

Any blockchain startup faces the threat of imitation as that is a rampant issue in this sphere.

But while it is very easy to merely imitate a base blockchain or project that exists just to issue coins or process weak transactions, imitating a full-service dapps with as many functioning pillars as Grain is extremely difficult.

Teams with the skill and determination of this scale, and grasp of the blockchain at such a high caliber, are already involved in projects of their own. They won't thin out their resources or jeopardize their reputation to imitate Grain.

Organization: Any company is essentially a successful effort of a group of individuals. Any crypto project’s success heavily rests on the capability of its team to properly manage and organize all efforts and funds.

GRAIN’s team has considerable experience in the target industry and its members are qualified to build the tech necessary to carry out this project.

The challenge will be how well the team remains organized as adoption kicks in. This is a truly global project and there are going to be many layers of operational complexity involved to succeed worldwide in so many different cultures.

As is the case with investments in any security or asset, you should invest in ICOs and tokens only an amount you are willing to lose. Investments in the crypto market are high-risk, high-reward moves and investor due diligence is imperative.

If you intend to invest in the project’s ICO, be sure to utilize the official project website. As disappointing as it may be, scammers are rampant in the crypto market and many try to scam investors through deceptive measures by identity theft of project leaders and phishing measures.

You should only contact official company social media profiles for your informational needs and queries, and you should invest in the ICO directly through the company website.

Part 6: TL;DR

Grain creates a transparent environment during the hiring process and thereby reduces turnover rates; it also offers an internalized smart means of issuing employee wages.

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