Ligue 1 (J1) : le Fello concède le nul face au Santoba

Brin,Perhaps you could NOT do an open source model — but do sohmteing more along the lines of a « People’s Venture Capital Fund. »Write up a good resume of successful projects. A corporate outline of what you plan to do, then some sort of financial commitment gets you X amount of shares net of profits from Y outcome agreement for those who just donate small amounts based upon trust. Write up a non-disclosure agreement, and send it certified mail to those who pony up $100 or more and express a bigger interest. Get a lawyer friend to donate so mind time to make sure it’s safe for you, and protects all parties.Most ventures fail because of insufficient funds. You should look at what you think you need and double it. What would it cost you and one other person to get it done having no other income for two years. Make sure you don’t put too much money into it — trying to scrape by will make you less productive in the end.A real VC firm will want at least a 500% increase on investment over a few years to justify their investments that fail. A venture like this might eke out a living or explode — but you will take more the risks and see less of the benefits with a VC. I’d think you’d could get a much better chance if you just create the VC fund yourself and sell a FIXED amount of shares in the first tranche (round of financing) and guarantee them to be at least 25% of the total shares given.You will need some patentable or copyrightable IP to get another business to put some skin in the game. I have at least a dozen ideas like that floating around — about 14 years ago I was bouncing around some ideas with some fellows I was working for when we were trying to create a new system of trading that didn’t require transfers of capital between countries. I’d suggested that we take the bidding system and start everything local — basically, I spelled out for them EBAY about 4 years before it started (so maybe that’s more than 14 years — I can’t tell time). But of course, nobody listens to the smart-aleck kid who works for them. I also came up with an active « search agent » called a drone that used a bit-torrent like networking scheme that would create intelligent agents out of simpler, hive-like functions, I also came up with a concept for « network compression » that I’ve yet to see used — though I haven’t looked too hard. Anyway –whether or not you NEED IP to get it going isn’t the point, that idea about « making things look cool » — is what it is all about. In marketing, there are about 5 hot buttons. It’s best if you hit all; Making a difference, making a bundle, recognition, sex, and friendships. OK, best if you hit 4. There are three types of learning — and that means « a person with money making things happen » and those are Kinesthetic, Auditory, and Visual. So you can TELL some people a great idea, but at about 70% of the population has to SEE it. That’s why I make a living with Kiosks and Presentations. You often don’t have the chance to let people see the fancy marble at your company — that’s why people spend money on brochures, sexy web sites and multimedia, it’s the digital equivalent of status.So that’s how I see my business; as a Status Producer. And I can tell you, about half of your money will go to lawyers, and a good 40% will go to building status with the pitch. That’s just to get the interest of someone who will take the lion’s share of the money. You could create a total fake demo of how it works without one line of code, and get more interest than if you made a working prototype that moved around stick figures. As far as I can tell, that is the nature of the world.Let us know what we can do to help.