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09.24.08Union Square Ventures and a new kind of Venture Capital firm.Yesterday's, NYTimes article on Union Square Ventures (USV) entitled "A New Kind Of Venture Capital Firm" is an interesting read and I'm glad to see the media beginning to pick up on this. I've been following USV for a whlie now and actually interviewed Brad Burnham in preparation for a session at the Open Everything Retreat on Investing in Open. They seem to have a knack for investing in webtech ventures like Twitter and Wesabe that have models that can be deeply disruptive to the systems they are taking on and where the question of how they are going to make ...
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09.18.08People, this is the front desk – It’s time to WAKE UP![caption id="" align="alignleft" width="109" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] The chaos of the financial markets is a major break in conventional structures and systems of our society. The intensity of it along side the growing crises in energy, food, and water coupled and the associated geo-political instability is really shaking things up. Oh, and mother nature is giving it's own share of kicks amounting to what I hope is one big wakeup call. So what could we wake up to? Robert Paterson has an interesting post positing that 2.0 world will emerge from the ashes of the Financial Capital World. We cannot know in any detail ...
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09.12.08Reflecting on OpenEverything: the rereat, the movement, and the meaning.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Reflections at Hollyhock"][/caption] It's been almost a week since the OpenEverything retreat and the reverberations continue. Heading into it, not having any roots in the open-source community, I was technically the biggest noob on the convening team. At the same time, what drew me into the meme and the event was a sense that something bigger was going on and that that something was rooted in a set of ideals and a drive for the practical that resonated with my core and my life experiences. On the other side of the event I'm more clear than ever that ...
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08.01.08Exploring Open – Investing and OrganizationsWell the OpenEverything Retreat turned out to be great event with over 30 participants and some great output. The Investing in Open Session brought together Helen King from the Shuttleworth Foundation, Joel Solomon from Renewal Partners, and Paul Biondich from OpenMRS. For the highlights check out the notes from the session and for those who want to dig a little deeper and contribute to the conversation there's now a open exploration on Investing and Open in the Mapping Open section of the OpenEverything wiki. Dive in and help shape this space. The OpenEverything retreat is coming up and in prep I've setup ...
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06.20.08An open quote from Michael EdwardsCross posted from my tumblog.Open: "more radical innovations in ownership and production that change the basis on which markets currently work" In the conclusion of “Just Another Emperor” by Michael Edwards, he poses the above quote which I think is a great description of what ‘open’ is actually playing at. Full context here: “Philanthrocapitalism offers one way of increasing the social value of the market, but there are other routes that could offer equal or better results in changing the way the economic surplus is produced, distributed and used: the traditional route that uses external pressure, taxation and regulation; the ...
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06.04.08OpenEverything opens today!Well, it was only a few months ago when Jason Mogus, Mark Surman and I chatted on this concept of the event series that is now underway. It started as an exploration as to a new Web Of Change event at Hollyhock this year and Mark has taken it to what is going to be an amazing series that is going to push our thinking and the thinking of the 'open' community even further.For more information, check out Mark's opening post here, and the openeverything wiki.Today, Toronto kicks off Open Everything: a global series of six (or more?) events about ...
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05.09.08Forces at play in the The Great RemixThe final piece from this work on The Great Remix are a couple of presentations that explore the forces at play. I've yet to add annotated detail but here they are nonetheless.Summary | View | Upload your ownDetail | View | Upload your own
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