TMC, business model for the Internet Age, Start a Modular Company of your own!
The Modular Company is a fairly loose collection of individuals and possibly other corporations that collaborate on a variety of projects. Projects are usually commercial, initially the accent will be on 'online' businesses.
When compared with more traditional corporate models the MC has a number of advantages:
- Normally when a number of individuals decides that they want to collaborate on a project they will each lay out an initial sum of money that they use to buy shares with, and they make an agreement on who will do what. This nails down the various relationships right from day one, whereas in practice it is often desireable to keep the relationship fluid to be able to accommodate changes in circumstances or plans.
- If there is a conflict in a traditional corporation it usually ends in front of a judge, in a modular company any change of a stakeholdership is usually limited in scope so a conflict will be easier to resolve in an amicable way.
- Traditional corporate structures have formal governance rules, a MC will have a more merits based and democratic leadership.
In simpler words, a Modular Company is a way to work together with other people with built in safeguards that are designed to minimize the risk of infighting.
Why take part in a MC?
A Modular Company project allows you to contribute risk free to a collaborative effort with a minimum of responsibility and a maximum reward potential. Basically the only thing at risk is your reputation within the Modular Company, and whatever time you've invested in a project. You don't need to cancel your day job, mortgage your house or sell your kids.
squid vs varnish
Mon, 01/19/2009 - 12:36 — jamThere are not many spots where you can substitute varnish for squid, if it weren't for the weird names open source coders give to their pet projects then the internet would be no different.
FreelanceTweets (dutch)
Wed, 11/05/2008 - 15:13 — joeFreelanceTweets is een marktplaats voor Freelancers en Opdrachtgevers. Nu bestaan er veel van dit soort marktplaatsen echter Freelancetweets verzamelt freelance opdrachten en stuurt deze door naar Twitter. In tegenstelling tot veel andere marktplaatsen is Freelancetweets gratis voor zowel opdrachtgevers als freelancers. Opdrachtgevers kunnen via de site opdrachten plaatsen of men kan een RSS/XML feed koppelen waarmee de opdrachten automatisch worden doorgeplaatst.
MP3xchg
Wed, 11/05/2008 - 15:11 — joeMP3xchg makes it possible to find free mp3's by using Google as search engine. This site is build with the Drupal 5 CMS and it took us 30 minutes
to realize it.
Babes and Cars
Wed, 11/05/2008 - 15:10 — joeBabes and Cars is a website with Babes and Cars. The site is build with the Drupal 5 CMS and users can become member to upload their own pictures of Babes and Cars.
Registrate.com
Thu, 08/28/2008 - 13:05 — joeConcept idee: het online registreren van serienummers van produkten en eventueel ook het registreren van teksten om copyrights te beschermen.
Registreren van serienummers van produkten is interessant in geval van diefstal. Indien de politie hun 'gesloten goederen aangifte systeem' zou koppelen aan speuders, marktplaats en andere tweedehands handelsites zou er veel minder fraude gepleegd worden. Ook zijn er andere leuke concepten te bedenken met de registratie van serienummers zoals b.v. het online volgen waar bepaalde spullen blijven die ooit bij jou zijn geweest.
spam and monoculture
Sun, 08/03/2008 - 16:09 — jamI think that wherever there is a large enough monoculture of some sort there will be an automatic attraction for spammers and other miscreants to peddle their wares.
The rationale behind this is that as soon as the cost of reaching people goes down the incentive for a spammer to abuse the system will go up. So any kind of place that allows a uniform way to reach a large number of users through automated forms submission, search engine spamming or protocols (such as email) that spam is inevitable.
Buzzem (dutch)
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 17:02 — joeBuzzem is de werknaam voor het Emagazine van Cas en Co (Motionworks). Via deze site/dit project systeem kunnen we een project administratie opbouwen gericht op het samenstellen van een eerste issue van Buzzem.
