What do you think of Elixir and Phoenix? I haven't used Ruby on Rails but I really like Phoenix and looking at Rails I can see a lot of influences. But it's hard to beat the foundation that Erlang brings. Maybe I should have taken a better look at Rails while I was still using Python.

https://opentoonz.github.io/

It goes up to eleven

Just a thought if a lot of people are going to benefit from your algorithm then you could think about having a kickstarter campain to open source the code. With the amount you are looking to get from the VC's. Maybe with stretch goals of a iPad and Android version. You'll get money up front and might also be able to license it to somebody that doesn't like either (lgpl or gpl) depending on the strategy you choose. You could try having the opportunity of corporate sponsorship and trying to contact Google they are probably going to love having something that makes Youtube videos look better. It would trow some money your way because we need more funding of R&D through crowdsourcing. And remember to have some accessories for people like T-shirts.

Here is a good presentation on what to do: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-Scalability

But there is a short description, if you want to innovate you have to write prototype code. If you want somebody else to be able to work on it then you have to make it more beautiful. Then you can have somebody come in and make it fast.

If you break it down and segment who works on what face then you will be able to convince somebody in charge of change, unless he's pointy haired and then your screwed :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sJzec2wmw Just saying

You should try Asciidoc or docbook directly. I don't know if LaTeX has enough information to be faithfully converted to epub. But Asciidoc can reuse the LaTeX notations for a number of things.

I think it's the questions of right tool for the job, docbook is very widely used and is designed for working with books, and asciidoc and simular tools are for the non masochistic of us that prefer to edit text files and not raw xml. If you like gui there are plenty of guies for docbook, including LyX.

How long until this is used for thought control. Imagine turning of any critical brain center and planting things right into the unconscious. But at least we will have more knowledge :)