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Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @07:08AM (#3395529)
Only the beginning of the end of Closed Institutions.

For the last 5000 years the closed institution has ruled humanity. 12.12.12 that will change. And a new collaborative framework will marginalize the 1% and their money.

It all started with the the closed family of the strongest tribal leader... future generations became chiefs by enslaving and killing rivals. Fearful of others killing them they sought mystics to aid them and in turn these anointed them into Kings with divine right of rule; and the "closed" religion casts were born. And these leaders become great and powerful tyrants. Innovation brought about a new class "the merchants" and these eventually usurped the tyrants in great rebellions Magna Carta and the French Revolution and over time more innovation made these expand into global territories and giving them eventually more power and control than the leaders. Such power in fact they decided and controlled all matters -- spinning everything out of control: Climate, Fishery's, Forests, etc... Until that day that the bearer of the gift arrived and that gift was the Open !ncubator Framework (O!F) makes a good story :) http://mtrout.com

Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @06:51AM (#3395498)
I am a disgruntled entrepreneur who for nearly 2 years have been developing an enterprise 2.0 solution for the "closed" startup. I predict this will be the year of the Open Startup and it's foundup®. We running a closed alpha development trial and launching public beta on 12.12.12. What's so great about the open startup? It doesn't need the 1% to succeed and they launch as Open Corp and new selfless framework in which 20-80% of net profits are invested into lannching more open corps. My prediction is this...

1) Closed incubators such as this one and other clones will be displaced by a highly scaleable open free solution that offers a solution where 1% are not needed. 2) Closed crowdfunding funding platforms like profounder, KS, IGG, etc will be disrupted by our free version that offers TWO new ways to raise funds, 1) has raised over $1.6bn for npo strategic initiatives and another is my creation that I call passive crowdfunding. 3) Developers will be marginalized to becoming construction workers. As I have invented a new way to validate ideas.

There is a lot more but I will leave some things to be suprises :) Here are my talks... http://j.mp/OSiplaylist. If you want to see the solution that lies outside your paradigm to fully comprehend and you are willing to sign an NDA then I would be happy to show you it. After all I don't want this BS happening to us http://j.mp/modista. Open Startups is really Stupid simple... it combines 10 years of me beta testing experience, throws in fundraising lessons learned and 2 years of picking apart the Valley Startup. Just as Wikipedia disrupted MS Encarta. The Open Startup will change the world. I am here telling you but it should so absurd none of you will take heed... that OK. FOUNDUPS® Vision statement is "Be Good." because let's face it "Don't Be Evil" just doesn't cut it any more. We are a blue ocean strategy just letting now the red ocean we are here and would LOVE you to own some of use to hedge against our disrupting your business model. Jimmy Wales never did that... I think that was wrong. Paul, there you have my prediction... Love to show you our Open Startup !ncubator (OS!)

FOUNDUPS® Michael Trout, CEO Sorry for the edits, like Shakespeare I am highly dislexic