Our country club for developers: iPhoneDevTeam
October 30, 2009
TechCrunch has a pretty extensive story on our iPhone development country club concept in a post titled, “Big in Japan Has a Massive Goal.“ The story began this summer when Adam Majewski brought us the idea. What if we created a development shop 50% owned by the developers who did the work? Over the course of the summer we worked on the idea until we settled on a country club model:
- 25 Developers
- 25 Designers
- 1% ownership, 1% share of gross revenue for each
- Members could sell their ’seat’ as long as 25% of the members approved the new member.
- Members could be voted out if 75% of the members decided they weren’t a good fit.
- Each team (1 dev + 1 designer) would be required to build one app per quarter to remain part of team.
- Apps would use our own ad network, members would get half of the remnants to use or sell.
- Members get access to all contract work presented to Big in Japan.
MG’s article really spells out the program in his article, check it out. If you are interested drop me an email at amuse@biggu.com.
