Comments - Support the Entrepreneur Commons - P2P Foundation2024-03-29T09:00:22Zhttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2003008%3ABlogPost%3A8071&xn_auth=noAgain, that's the kind of cha…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2008-12-02:2003008:Comment:81022008-12-02T07:44:39.000ZEvolving Trendshttp://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/EvolvingTrends
Again, that's the kind of change we need.<br />
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I tried this two years ago:<br />
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<a href="http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/geek-run-geek-funded-venture-capital-fund/"><br />
http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/geek-run-geek-funded-venture-capital-fund/</a><br />
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My effort attracted all types of people but mostly business/investor types who were more interested in making money than helping other people.<br />
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It's one of the reasons I started thinking about changing how money is created and…
Again, that's the kind of change we need.<br />
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I tried this two years ago:<br />
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<a href="http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/geek-run-geek-funded-venture-capital-fund/"><br />
http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/geek-run-geek-funded-venture-capital-fund/</a><br />
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My effort attracted all types of people but mostly business/investor types who were more interested in making money than helping other people.<br />
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It's one of the reasons I started thinking about changing how money is created and used. In other words, using community/commons and latest p2p/social ideas "to get people together to make money" does not address the problem for me, which is the focus on "making money" rather than making a better world.<br />
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Granted, giving people power to help themselves/each other is much better than depending on centralized old world institutions, like VCs, but based on my experience with the Geek VC Fund effort I could see that the change has to be a lot deeper, all the way to how many behaves and how it drives people's behavior.<br />
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Having said that, it's only my opinion, and the idea itself is good and should work if everyone can focus on the social value of what they're doing not on the money making/greed that has gotten us to where we are today.<br />
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Undermining the VCs and centralized power is definitely a good thing.