The Entrepreneurial Free Agent and Dejobbed Small Business R&D Lab
The law, taxes... and nanocorps
Legal Special Interest Group
Making 'Small is Good' Real in the New Economy

[ The Taxman86 Speaks ] [ Open Discussions ] [ Recommended Reading ]

Welcome to our LegalSIG

Highly Recommended
Mark Litwak's Dealmaking in the Film Industry is highly recommended. Its focus on the Hollywood film industry and how contracts are negotiated among entrepreneurs gathered for a temporary project gives us a mature model to study at Sohodojo. LegalSIG members exploring how elastic webs of entrepreneurial free agents and nanocorps can openly collaborate on dejobbed business ventures, should read this book to kick start their thinking.

What are the legal structures that need to be developed for the nanocorp business model? How do 'Portfolio People' share responsibilities and benefits in their networks of dejobbed businesses with many stakeholders collaborating on an agenda? And what are the tax implications?

For legal insights we can turn to the Hollywood movie industry as a mature 'networkization' model to study. It's a jumping off place, not a "solution" space. Open Community Businesses and other dejobbed business models are very likely to need unique legal frameworks. Precedents must be established to give 'Small is Good' equal footing in the New Economy.

	Sohodojo goes to Washington
	Expanded reports on-line from the 2000 Congressional Small Business Summit. Read our report, The Buzz from the 2000 Congressional Small Business Summit, at content partner, inc.com.

There are exciting changes afoot for the home-based, small-business in the U.S. that will drive the New Economy and help push the development of collaborative, dejobbed portfolio businesses of nanocorps. For tax insights in this self organizing legal space, we're following closely as Sohodojo Advisory Board Member, Jim Schneider, wrestles the Tax Beast and pins it down.

The Taxman86 Speaks...

Home-based and small business tax tips, financial planning insights, investment strategies... it's all here in Jim Schneider's provocative newsletter, The Taxman86 Speaks...

Sohodojo is pleased to host the archive of Jim Schneider's The Taxman86 Speaks... newsletter. Jim's newsletter is the best source of the latest news about Enterprise Communities, Empowerment Zones and HUB Zones... increasingly fertile ground for growing home-based and small businesses.

This short list of The Taxman86 Speaks newsletters topics from the July 2000 archive indicates the scope and breadth of what Jim covers.

• 27^th - The Distressed Communities Tax Legislation Finally Arrived With A Bang; Downtown L.A. APPEARS to Lend Itself to Housing...Live at the Office; Small Business Tax Cuts Do Not Make It, But Seniors' Social Security $100B Tax Cut does.

• 24^th - What the Dot-Com Startups Want; Washington, D.C. is Hot; Where the Lawyers are going?

• 22^nd - We have seen the light; Who has the best stuff; Where is the New Markets/Renewal Community Legislation.

Open Discussions

There are a number of on-going discussions on legislative, legal, tax, etc., issues of importance to nanocorps and dejobbed portfolio businesses here in the following Sohodojo Rants and Raves, and Forums:

R&D Issues

• How will the 'n2n' (nanocorp-to-nanocorp) marketplace work?
• Size doesn't matter . . .
• "Lead, follow or get out of the way": On being ruthlessly small...
• Collaboration: The Foundation of Entrepreneurial Free Agency

Current Issues

• Legislation, Issues, Impact. . .
• Get involved...
• Health Insurance and The Law - HIPAA
• Health Insurance and The Law - COBRA
• Health Insurance -- Don't tempt the devil

Recommended Reading

There are several RIBs selections particularly recommended for exploring nanocorp LegalSIG issues. If you would like to recommend a book that is not in the RIBs list but should be on the bookshelf for LegalSIG members, let us know.

• Age of Paradox, The
  by Charles Handy
   
• Age of Unreason, The
  by Charles Handy
   
• Contracts for the Film and Television Industry, 2nd Expanded Edition
  by Mark Litwak
   
• Creating Value in the Network Economy
  by Don Tapscott
   
• Dealmaking in the Film and Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts
  by Mark Litwak
   
• Great Game of Business, The
  by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
   
• Inc. Yourself: How to Profit by Setting Up Your Own Corporation
  by Judith H. McQuown
   

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