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June 12, 2004
Situative companies
If you've read Clay Shirky's post on situative software, then take a look at 24HDC, a situative dot com that's currently trying to establish a company and a product within 24 hours at the WOS conference in Berlin. They are planning on IPO'ing the whole thing off this evening on eBay. You can even be an early investor in the company. (via Joi)
Now while this may be a more tongue-in-cheek art project/company thing - the idea really bares thinking about. Setting up and tearing down companies (in Germany) is really a long drawn-out process with lots of paperwork. Fortunately however, it is possible to set up UK companies (Ltds) in Germany too. And the process is a lot easier (you can even do it online).
So it doesn't seem that far-fetched to get a group of people together who want to build a situative piece of software, set up a company around that software and then sell the whole thing off if it is a success. If not then just de-register the company and try something else.
Later: I am now heavily invested in 24HDC :-). So is Steve!
Posted by Matthew at June 12, 2004 01:01 PM
Comments
I'm in too. LOL
Posted by: Steve Mallett at June 12, 2004 02:05 PM