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   Re: The Rise Of Micro-Multinational Companies

   

   Tom Gordon, Aug 25th, 2005 @ 4:32am

   
   

   We're one of these 'micro multinationals', and have been since we launched in 2001. For example, during 2002-2003 we had a full time employee in the USA and a full time employee in Canada, both working on live satellite television in the UK alongside UK-based employees.
   It's a logical extension of online work, and a concept I've been speaking about (http://www.alienpants.com/bizcase.zip) and writing about (I contributed a chapter in the recent Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2 book specifically about providing customer support using online staff).
   All my staff work remotely using the Internet, and frankly I don't care where they live (except when it comes to working out tax :) ). We even had one guy presenting a live TV show from his bedroom using a webcam. That version ran for 11 months, and the show itself is still broadcast daily almsot 3 years later (although they now produce it in a studio using proper cameras).

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   Lorenzo, Aug 25th, 2005 @ 5:46am

   
   

   hopefully, micromultinationals are backed by super detailed legal agreements because the costs of legal action in foreign countries still hasn t gone the way of megabytes and telephone minutes, and it is an incentive to free-rides and outright unfair practices by foreign associates.

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   been going on for years....

   

   Chris Maresca, Aug 25th, 2005 @ 9:25am

   
   

   Back in the early '90's, I had a company with 30 employees, only 10 of which were in the same country as I was. Faxes, phones and FidoNet made it all possible.

   One recent example of this is WSO2, which has (had?) only five employees located in Sri Lanka, London, New York and San Francisco.

   Chris.

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   Meeting the Legal Needs of the Micro-Multinational

   

   Vanessa Cross, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 4:02pm

   
   

   International business lawyers are responding to the growth of micro-multinationals by responding to the legal needs presented by this growth. The new role of the international business lawyer is not to simply respond to the needs of "big business,", but offer the same quality legal services (including drafting concrete contracts) to micro-multinationals.

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   Miles=Millimeters

   

   Edward Donnelly, Sep 24th, 2006 @ 7:02am

   
   

   Aside from the reliance on low cost tech to communicate the other key to the success of a micro-multinational is to have a staff that thinks beyond cultural and political borders.

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