jexe ([info]jexe) wrote,
@ 2006-05-05 22:50:00
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A future subsidiary of AOL-Cingular-Pixar MegaCorp.
Well, I'm starting a company.

There's too much work to do. Here's the deal: I'm working full time on five small-to-huge ongoing projects. We're also two other programmers part time as well as an artist, and could do with about one half more programmer. This doesn't feel like a lot of work, but I know it is because I'm procrastinating so hard that I'm actually updating livejournal (hi everyone!). So, a corporation it is. A real one, with shares, board meetings, an attorney and an accountant and such. No office yet, but when we do I swear it'll be painted dot-com green.

Hopefully this will all be nailed down next week. It's mostly just uber-freelancing for now (except for one project), but I get a feeling that there's rather more to do than just that.

Here's a funny thing about NYC business law: In starting an LLC, one is required to state your arrival on earth in a printed ad in three major local publications for SIX WEEKS. The cost of doing something like that? About $1800. It's some sort of wack holdover from the good old days, I understand that LLCs are relatively new inventions. An actual polo-shirt cigar smokin' golf playin' corporation is actually far easier, so there we are.

I figure I should somehow keep notes about my boring bureaucratic new paperworkful life, maybe here is a good place to do so. ....Or maybe not. :)



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[info]squishyent
2006-05-06 03:34 pm UTC (link)
wow, best of luck (: should you need another programmer in, say, a year, let me know. I should have lots of delicious JMS experience by then :p

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[info]jexe
2006-05-06 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! Very cool, I hope we can afford ya in a year. There's also a chance that this project will do nothing but make my taxes while contracting far more complicated. :)

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[info]luvcraft
2006-05-06 06:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm a half a programmer. :)X

What would your new corporation do, exactly?

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[info]jexe
2006-05-06 09:34 pm UTC (link)
Oh, you're already on my "list of available resources" :)

Right now we're doing a lot of mobile stuff. Cell phones and PDAs and smartphones, WAP (WML/XHTML) sites, J2ME, Palm, Danger, Windows Mobile, that area. Really what I'd like to do is write a bunch of thoughtful, simple stuff that we would actually play with / use ourselves.

The contract work we're doing so far is mobile web and pretty simple mobile applications (think RSS readers, video games for media companies, and that sort of thing). After that, we'll probably buy out Apple or Electronic Arts and see what happens.

(still working on the "Oh, snap! Better invest before we get to the 15th floor" elevator pitch. :P )

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[info]luvcraft
2006-05-14 03:10 am UTC (link)
Oh, you're already on my "list of available resources" :)

Yay! I'm a commodity!

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[info]pvck
2006-05-06 09:52 pm UTC (link)
I'm a bit confused as to whether those first two sentences are meant to say "I'm starting a company, and it's a lot of work" or "I'm starting a company, because otherwise I'll never get done all I want to."

Regardless, congratulations and my sympathies. I am of course available as a resource, although right now I'm focusing alot on VJing/video art. But if you decide to develop an app that allows realtime control of vvvv via my palm phone, I'll happily consult.

(btw, that software is what I'm using for all of my realtime vid now, it is highly awesome, check it out.)

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[info]jexe
2006-05-07 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I suppose it's a bit of both.
So, thanks! And looks like some quite good software there. Have any of your recent work online?

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[info]pvck
2006-05-07 09:05 pm UTC (link)
Not yet, but I'm trying to get a demoreel together soon, or perhaps a few of them. I'll let you know.

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[info]foundsound
2006-05-07 06:03 am UTC (link)
Sounds like headaches and good times all rolled into one! Keep us posted as things progress, ne?

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