The Minciu
Sodas laboratory
Business Priorities Archive
Business Aims for the Year 2000
Here are some aims to keep our sights on:
Results for participants:
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Have clear examples of how companies benefit from the relationships that
we help build.
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Have clear examples where people benefited from relationships that we have
helped build, especially with the poor.
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Set up at least one investigation in a troubled or developing country,
such as Belarus.
Active participation:
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Have a group of five or ten investigators that know how to conduct public
research in the manner of our laboratory.
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Have active and productive communities for three objectives: Flow of Experiences,
Confrontal of Issues, Harmony of Motivation. Have leaders for each
of these objectives.
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Have an active and productive community for at least one of the greater
objectives.
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Have at least the beginnings of communities for the other seven objectives.
Structured research:
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Have a better understanding of what kind of data belongs in each of the
twelve projects.
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Have a stream of public domain data entering at least four of the projects.
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Have basic materials for learning how to conduct investigations.
Income:
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Have a profitable year. Conduct three lucrative investigations.
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Have the beginnings of a variety of income streams that would keep the
laboratory independent.
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Have well defined ways for members to generate income as they help.
Targets for the Second Half of the Year 2000
My goals for the rest of this year are to be viable, but with prices set
with next year in mind. This year:
I will submit a proposal, in July, to TheBrain, to sponsor an investigation
for $21,000. I will write more about what I have in mind, what I
discussed with Anna Herbert.
I will invite IrDA members to become Sponsoring Advisors, helping with
the Wishful Thinking
usage case matrix, especially regarding a question such as "Did information
ever move me?" I would like to sign up five Sponsoring Advisors by
the end of this year. I will propose to MindJET that they be our
first Sponsoring Advisor in this effort. I will write more about
what I have in mind.
Targets for the Year 2001
Wages for our director for the year 2001 are set at $18,000.
Our stable business model consists of the following three services:
Sponsoring
Investigator,
Sponsoring
Advisor,
Sponsoring
Researcher.
Our director will be working at capacity when we have 3 sponsoring investigators,
9 sponsoring advisors, and 27 sponsoring researchers.
3 sponsoring investigators at an average of $40,000 each equals $120,000.
9 sponsoring advisors at an average of $4,000 each equals $36,000.
27 sponsoring researchers at an average of $400 each equals $10,800.
Our target for total income is $166,800.
Our target for total expenses is $98,000.
Our target for total profit is $68,800.