posted 11-05-1999 05:10 AM               

We hope to open a dialog with Thomas Malone, Rober Laubacher, Michael Scott Morton and many other world-class researchers engaged in identifying and stimulating the emergence of new business organization models.

As members of the sohodojo nanocorp and small business revolutionaries community, your opinion matters and we want to help you be heard.

What messages would you like us to take to Dr. Malone and associates on your behalf?

posted 11-09-1999 02:27 PM               

• How to engage others without losing control of the idea?
  
• How to distribute the spoils?
  
• How to share the spoils with the OSS community, without whose efforts my idea would suffer the same fate as The Man's attempts.
  
• Or, am I still carrying The Man's baggage into the nanocorp world...?
  

I've been thinking about the issue of contracts after some very unpleasant discoveries trying to deal with NC standard Real Estate boiler-plate contracts. The biggest problem that sector faces that while the boiler-plates look quite solid, it is the total lack of guidelines in filling in the blanks which destroy their value.

For example, check out how different agents fill in the "Buyer's Agreement"... We've had agents present us with at least the following "versions":

• agent gets commission if we buy anything in 3 counties during the next YEAR; even FSBO
  
• 1 county for 180 days
  
• refusal to show us any property unless we signed this agreement which would bind us to pay for any deal
  
• one property for 180 days; we feel this one was the intent
  

The point: boiler plate contracts are not the answer, unless they are constantly improved in open source fashion when \[attempted\] misuse/abuse is discovered.