Business Priorities & Figures

Charles Badewitz of SCORE suggests that our business have a rolling budget, a simple price formula, and a war room for mapping strategy.  You have entered the war room!

Current Priorities:  Today's Priorities | Near Term Priorities | Business Calendar
Business Goals:  Aims for Year 2000 | Targets for Second Half of Year 2000 | Targets for Year 2001
Director's Figures: Projected Normal Expenses for 12 Months: $85,000

Today's Priorities 2001.6.28

Goals this week

Support new endeavors.
- Endeavor from San Diego, creativity without obsession.
- Endeavor from Ensenada, math education viral.
- Endeavors in Chicago.
 

After this week

On the Back Burner

Workspace Priorities

Make our laboratory a useful space!

• Approaching sponsors who would benefit from our system of activities. Write proposal for endeavor, for services for independent thinkers.  Make list of prospective sponsors.
• Inviting idealists/activists who would like a workspace for their endeavors. Find contacts in Tijuana.
• Engaging God as a participant, that he might take up each activity. Document tools that are useful for this.  For example, for identifying concepts, conceptual frameworks, endeavors, roles, etc.

• Creating or finding the software tools to harness the momentum of our streams of opinions.  Develop import from Outlook to Access.  Find open source software to do this?

Identifying the interests of our participants, endeavors they want to pursue, tasks that must be accomplished, and roles that must be performed. Responding to Daniel, Natalie about an endeavor: figuring out, what do we need for independent thinkers to develop endeavors together?

• Identifying technical skills that we need to build our workspace. Explore what tools are already out there.
• Organizing members (especially programmers in Lithuania) who wish to develop these skills.  Describing course for Developing Tools for Thinking.
• Finding "bread and butter" work, outside of the scope of the laboratory, where we could earn income as we develop these skills.  Send resume to www.guru.com, www.dice.com, www.brassring.com  Write to Jim Cashel, http://www.forumone.com about careers.
• Creating channels of public sponsorship (through www.paypal.org) that might be very modest but could be distributed to reward projects within the scope of the laboratory.  Writing about OurOwnThoughts fund.

Have a coherent workspace.

• Workspace for offering choice.
• Workspace for following the heart.
• Workspace for re-thinking and re-caring.  What is the point of re-caring, if it is "disturbing" with regard to value? vs. What is the "value" of re-thinking, how does it take us up from one level to another of what we care about?  Collect answers to the questionnaire "Who helped me think?"  Focus on helping individual members, what is helpful for each one?  What is the value of thinking out loud?
• Workspace for organizing workspaces.  Map out the processes by which our thinking get things done.  Develop a modular design for supporting these processes.  What is needed so that anybody can alter a workspace so that it is useful for them?

Member Priorities

Gateway Priorities

Working Group Priorities

Other stands

Our own thoughts

Our own stands

Other thoughts

Our own actions

Other actions

Laboratory Structure

Laboratory Infrastructure

Finances

Reach out to others

Business Priorities Archive

Our Own Thoughts

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Business Calendar

XML for Topic Maps meeting

• May 26-28, 2001 Berlin, Germany (XML Europe 2001)
• August 9-11, 2001 Montreal, Canada (Extreme Markup)

Our Business Goals

Financial Plan

The main source of revenues, 75%, will come from Sponsoring Investigators.  They fund our research.

However, Sponsoring Advisors play a vital role, because they are our main prospects for Sponsoring Investigators, they are major sponsors of the examples we collect that are the capital for our investigations, they are sources of free software and other perks for our members, they provide liaisons who serve as our advisors, they are the partners that our Sponsoring Investigators are looking for, and also our members are looking for.  They fund and shape our travel - our major expense, and a crucial one, is the forums - conferences and standards meetings - that
we attend to make contacts and move forward our agenda.

Sponsoring Researchers will be only a small revenue stream, but they will be very important contacts, often within very large companies.

Projected Normal Expenses for 12 Months

• Director's Wages and Taxes, living six months in Lithuania $6,000
• Director's Wages and Taxes, living six months outside of Lithuania $12,000
• Additional Wages and Taxes, for members in Lithuania and around the world $24,000

• Office, Phone, and Web, in Lithuania $4,000
• Office, Phone, and Web, outside of Lithuania $4,000
• Computers $4,000
• Software $5,000
• Books $3,000

• Travel between Lithuania and the United States $2,000
• Travel and Conferences outside of Lithuania $24,000
• Car Rental $3,000
• Additional Marketing $2,000

• Long term $2,500
• Short term $2,500

TOTAL: $98,000

Division of Hours, per Month, for Director

Director's Finances

Key Figures, as of April 20, 2000.
Debt: $57,600 at an average rate of 12%
Cash: $0
Awaiting: $0
Available credit: $500 at an average rate of 17%
Monthly income: $4,000  (90 hours)
Available for my business: $400
Additional monthly income needed to meet obligations: $1,040.

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Rolling Profit Plan, Actual

The figures for debt, available credit, and cash are given for the 1st of the month, and the other figures are totals for the month.
 

1999	Debt	Available Credit	Cash	Fixed Expenses	Special Expenses	Living Expenses	Revenues	Income
January	$8,300	$20,900	$0	$140	$1,900	$750	$0	($2790)
February	$14,600	$12,900	$2,400	$150	$2,940	$550	$120	($3520)
March	$16,900	$10,600	$2,000	$930	$1,820	$550	$120	($3180)
April	$17,400	$9,600	$200	$280	$4,200	$250	$0	($4730)
May	$21,900	$3,000	$5,200	$680	$2,830	$650	$0	($4160)
June	$22,900	$2,000	$5,000	$620	$1,360	$300	$0	($2280)
July	$23,100	$2,000	$3,000	$480	$500	$800	$240	($1540)
August				$900	$350	$800	$0	($2050)
September				$1,560	$1,420	$800	$481	($3300)
October	$28,000	$2,300	$1,200	$1,000	$1,430	$860	$573	($2700)
November	$54,000	$400	$24,500	$370	$480	$800	$1180	($440)
December	$45,500	$9,000	$14,800	$650	$510	$1500	$786	($1870)
2000
January	$35,600	$14,500	$4,200	$1,160	$460	$400	$0	($2020)
February	$35,900	$14,300	$3,300	$300	$3,750	$400	$0	($4450)
March	$43,500	$6,600	$6,300	$620	$910	$1000	$1400	($1130)
April	$43,900	$7,600	$3,400	$450	$1,820		$9000
May	$43,900	$8,600	$7,400				$0
June	$41,000	$8,600	$1,200				$0
July	$40,800	$8,600	$300
August			$2,200
September	$46,800	$5,000	$800
October
November
December
January
February
March
April

For 1999, there were about $8,500 in fixed expenses, $20,500 in special expenses, and $8,000 in living expenses, making for a total of $37,000 per year.

January: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $140.  Special Expenses: Knowledge Management conference $1240, Laptop $600.  Living Expenses: Visit sister: $250.
February: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $150. Special Expenses: Mobile Computing conference $2720.
March: Fixed Expenses: YourOfficeUSA: $390, SODRA (Lithuanian Social Security): $250, Interest: $190, Omnitel $100.  Special Expenses: Enterprise Application Integration conference $1160. Install telephone in Lithuania: $290.
April: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $210, YourOfficeUSA: $70, Special Expenses: KM&OL conference $1,700, PAKeM conference $700, IrDA meeting: $740, Software $350, Magazines $250, Business cards $200, Change ticket: $80.
May: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $210, Atzalynas: $150, Omnitel: $125, Telecom: $125, San Diego Business Tax: $60, Special Expenses: IrDA membership $1500, LIKS sponsorship $420, EMMSAD conference: $415, Furniture: $230, LITEKSPO exhibit $220, Laptop adapter: $120, EAI Journal $60, Software $40.  Special income: Gift of $5,000.
June: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $210, YourOfficeUSA: $260, Atzalynas: $150. Special Expenses: LIMS conference $600, EMMSAD conference $520, LIKS artwork: $75.   Special income: Gift of $5,000.
July: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $210, YourOfficeUSA: $145, Atzalynas: $100, Net2Phone: $25.  Special Expenses: PAKeM conference $380,
August: Fixed Expenses: Telecom: $300, Interest: $210, Omnitel: $145, YourOfficeUSA: $125, Atzalynas: $100, Net2Phone: $25  Special Expenses: Flyer $270.
September: Fixed Expenses: Atzalynas: $850, Interest $210, Health Insurance: $175, Your Office USA: $125, Sodra: $100, Taxes: $100  Special Expenses: Flight to United States $800, E-services conference $370, Flyer $250  Living Expenses: Visit sister $100.
October: Fixed Expenses: Atzalynas: $625, Interest: $210, Your Office USA: $140, Internet: $20  Special Expenses: IrDA meeting: $1100, Books $215, Office $85
November: Fixed Expenses: Interest: $210, Your Office USA: $145, Phone: $40, Internet: $20 Special Expenses: Books: $380, Shipping: $90
December:  Fixed Expenses: $650  Interest: $630  Internet: $20  Special Expenses: $510  Flight to San Diego: $220  Flight to San Jose, IrDA: $120, Books: $100
2000
January:  Fixed Expenses: Atzalynas: $750, Your Office USA: $265, Interest: $90, San Diego Tax $30, Internet: $20  Special Expenses:  IrDA car $220, IrDA $90, books $120. Note: Old loan returned, increasing cash by $830.
February:  Fixed Expenses: Your Office USA: $140, Interest: $120, Pacific Bell: $20, Internet: $20  Special Expenses:  $3750 IrDA membership: $1,500, XTech conference: $890, MobileInsights: $500, Saulius: $400, KMCI: $250, books: $150, Ben Darnell: $70.
March:  Income: MindJET: $1400  Fixed Expenses: Interest: $180, Omnitel: $150, Telekomas: $150, Pacific Bell: $65, Your Office USA: $50, Internet: $20  Special Expenses: MobileInsights: $300, Handspring: $300, books: $280, Tijuana: $30
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
As of October  21st: Of the debt, $1,800 is at 6%, $32,500 is at 10%, $2,400 is at $13% and $11,300 is at 18%.  There is a monthly payment of $40 + $150 + $50 + $340 = $580 and an additional yearly payment of $2,500 or $208 a month.  Also, there is a $25,000 debt due July 1st, 2003 which payments towards should be made starting July 1st, 2001 of roughly $1,050 per month.
Fixed Expenses: $900  Loan payment $580 (Interest: $290), Atzalynas $100, Telephone: $120, Internet: $50, Sodra: $30, Health Insurance: $15, Banking Fee: $15.  Living Expenses: $600
 
 

Rolling Profit Plan, Anticipated

• Sponsoring researchers: 2 per month at $300 to $500 each starting June. These are independent thinkers that companies enroll in our laboratory so that we might develop useful services for them.  They are paired with a fellow member, and also receive the priveliges of membership, such as free software.  [$600 per month starting July, $1,000 per month starting December]
• Sponsoring advisors: 1 per 6 weeks at $3,000 to $5,000 each starting June.  These are companies that sponsor our Thinkerwish by funding the collection of examples of caring about thinking.  They are paired with a fellow member who pursues their interests at a conference they agree to.  [$2,000 per month starting June, $3,500 per month starting August]
• Sponsoring investigators:  1 per 4 months at $21,000 to $55,000 each starting August.  These are companies that sponsor investigations that explore their beliefs.  [$5,000 per month starting September, $14,000 per month starting January]

Anticipated Fixed Expenses