Clunky Flow

There’s a movement afoot.

First, we witnessed the success of the YCombinator and SeedCamp models. Both standing out for successfully reinventing the incubation model to match the emerging realities of the business landscape.

Now, we have another crops of even more innovative models emerging, best represented by Ooga labs, Mixer labs and Maxtility.

For example:

Ooga Labs…[has] 15 designers and engineers who work in two-man teams to develop ideas in parallel…shrinking the teams down to two people - a designer and an engineer.

Ooga has also developed an unusual “cross-equity” ownership arrangement. “We have five different companies at Ooga Labs and everyone owns equity in each of the projects regardless of which one they’re focused on.”

See more here Financial Times:

It strikes me that this is the kind of thing that emerges naturally out of co-working arrangements. I wouldn’t be surprised if the guys in TL01 are fomenting something similar as we speak. I know the guys have already ‘talked to Joe‘ about how best to structure a company that emerges when passion and talent merge in a coworking space…

The guys could do worse than taking a look at these new and emerging models. Interesting times. And a space worth watching.

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All the details over here

It’s near the inspirational Broombridge. Which I walk over every morning on my way to the Digital Hub.

via Wikipedia:

Broom bridge is somewhat famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on October 16, 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge.

The text on the plaque reads:

Here as he walked by
on the 16th of October 1843
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
in a flash of genius discovered
the fundamental formula for
quaternion multiplication
i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1
& cut it on a stone of this bridge.
Given the historical importance of the bridge with respect to mathematics, mathematicians the world over have been known to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the site.

The promoter/owner of the space should consider looking up Peter at www.the360co.com. With all the exposure co-working spaces get this could be a good business opportunity for both.

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