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Open Capitalist – Portland. New community workshop! 12 Jun 2013 | 06:48 am
The time has come for a physical location. A lot of design work can be done on a computer from remote locations, but eventually you have to get down to building things. That time has come. I am loca...
Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership 16 Feb 2013 | 02:17 am
Found a great article about co-op business models and how democratizing business ownership will help the transition to the next sustainable economic models. One of the principles of Open Capitalist i...
Open Capitalist Gets Artsy! 18 Nov 2012 | 11:56 am
So I had a fortunate run in with an artist friend’s gallery curator Reese Kruse at gallery HOMELAND. We started talking about having him help me with a charity art event and ended up talking about 3D...
We can now say multiple products have shipped! 5 Oct 2012 | 05:04 am
We have been trickling out shipments over the summer, and in the process we have found some awesome collaborators. We still have a ways to go on the electronics design side for the StepperNug and Ste...
First Open Capitalist Product Ships!!! 14 Sep 2012 | 02:48 am
I haven’t written an update in a while, but it was for a good reason. Ray Flores and I were diligently getting our first product out the door, and I just shipped it a couple of hours ago. The produc...
200 Acres of Possibilities 13 Jul 2012 | 07:43 am
I had a wonderful meeting with Jon Spurgeon on the sailboat last week to discuss the possibilities of using his 200 acres of land here in Oregon to start some form of Engineering Based Intentional Com...
501c3 (Forced identity crisis) 3 Jul 2012 | 09:48 am
Its time Open Capitalist embark on the dimly lit path to attaining 501c3, nonprofit status. Not having any sort of background in non-profit law, I’ve started pillaging the internet, looking for infor...
What Motivates Open Source Contribution 1 Jul 2012 | 04:45 am
I run into a common argument when I describe a system where people contribute time and resources to a project that freely shares the end result. The argument is usually quieted when they are confront...
How to start a movement 28 Jun 2012 | 03:21 pm
Derek Sivers gives a short, concise example of the mechanics of starting a movement. This short (~3min) video is really worth watching if you are trying to get a group of people to move in the same d...
Summer of Collaboration 24 Jun 2012 | 07:02 am
I had to borrow my sister’s carry-on bag for a couple weeks because mine was too small. It had castor wheels at all four corners, which made it incredibly easy to move down the aisle of the plane. I...
