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Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

I'm pretty convinced the vast majority of tech startups were started by individuals who relied on their family supporting them through the initial phases of their business.

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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post #11
post #9

> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

I'm pretty convinced the vast majority of tech startups were started by individuals who relied on their family supporting them through the initial phases of their business.

pretty convinced from what data? source please? thanks!

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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post #9

> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

"Do the paperwork for creation" has only a passing resemblance to "found and fund."

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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A corporation, being a legal fiction, can only act through physical persons. So in that respect, no corporation can be truly autonomous. It sounds like what they have done is taken all the paperwork associated with corporate activity: by-laws, annual meeting minutes, resolutions, etc., and put them into a block chain. A more proper description would be a paperless corporation.

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post #11
post #9

> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

I'm pretty convinced the vast majority of tech startups were started by individuals who relied on their family supporting them through the initial phases of their business.

Vast majority? Really?

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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post #9

> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

> The individual must have a net worth greater than $1 million, either individually or jointly with the individual’s spouse.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/accredited-investor-ne...

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty convinced the vast majority of tech startups were started by individuals who relied on their family supporting them through the initial phases of their business.

pretty convinced from what data? source please? thanks!

I don't know if anyone has collected any formal data, I'm basing it on my personal experience. Certainly plenty of other people make the same observation. http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Why-do-so-few-st...

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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A corporation, being a legal fiction, can only act through physical persons. So in that respect, no corporation can be truly autonomous. It sounds like what they have done is taken all the paperwork associated with corporate activity: by-laws, annual meeting minutes, resolutions, etc., and put them into a block chain. A more proper description would be a paperless corporation.

That's like saying a car can't be autonomous because some programmers wrote the software that it uses.

Re: Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

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post #9

> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.

"Do the paperwork for creation" has only a passing resemblance to "found and fund."

"found" means to do the paperwork and setup a bank account. that's it. there's no deeper meaning.

"fund" just means putting some money into a bank account for it. you could fund a company with a dollar (and many people do, for symbolic reasons).

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