Awesome work and good questions. Thank you!

Well, let's be honest. I won't use Minnow-ASAP, or my own "influence" to push a newcomer with ~10 Steem into minnowhood. I would never do something like that.

However, I don't want a limit of, say 450 Steem Power, to be eligible this, as I don't want to exclude people lower than that. Also, I won't push people who haven't showed their interest, and people who haven't proved themselves to be good candidates.

Let's use @cicisaja as an example. (Sorry for ruining the surprise but yeah, @cicisaja, you're on the list!)

Joined in January 2018 and have a total of 401 Steem Power. Sure, this user has more than 500 SP due to incoming delegations, but how awesome would it be to push her straight into minnowhood, so she had 500 Steem Power by herself? - That's what I'm going for.

I want this to be the motivation and encouragement these people need, to continue to be awesome. However, there are others who have less support but are doing a fantastic job already... And I want those people to get a nice "bonus", by pushing them. So they reach their goal even faster.

SBI-shares seems like a good idea to somehow "lock" people on STEEM. As long as they continue to produce content, they'll be rewarded for it due to the SBI-shares. So that's obviously a really great idea.

I have no intentions of pushing a small fish with 10 Steem Power into minnowhood out of the blue. I might be crazy, but not that crazy. They need to have some sort of credibility and they need to have somewhat "proved themselves" before I will consider anyone for a push.

I mean, even though donations are considered to be charity, this is not a charity event in that sense. I want this to be that extra small push these people need to continue on the right path.

So, all in all, one need to have some sort of criterias... Users must've done or achieved this or that to be eligible. I will most likely update Minnow-ASAP with more criterias, rules and whatever with time, but for now, I just want it to be "open for all". I'm looking forward to where it takes me and this project, and before I've seen how things turn out, I can't make necessary changes either.

Motivation is key. Motivation, inspiration and encouragement. I find that more important than the price of Steem itself. As long as we educate people, and teach them the ways to "steem", we will have a strong middle class in no time. :)