Please remove my e-mail from this list! I'm totaly spamed out! Best regards Håvard Svennungsen On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Mike Pall wrote: > demetri wrote: >> This is not exactly a proposal, but I think Mike might be underestimating >> the crowd-funding or pooled-corporate-funding idea. >> >> I would certainly participate, and I'm sure there are 100 companies in the >> world who value Mike working on the GC at NPV >$1k USD. I'm sure there are >> also at least 10 for whom that number is $10k USD. > > This is certainly encouraging, thank you! > >> I have some limited experience in this space and would be happy to help. I >> have tentatively created a web survey form and with Mike's blessing would >> circulate it to the list (I don't want to steal his thunder if he is >> planning his own research effort). > > Well, I'd rather have a well-crafted plan first. All of that needs > to be on solid legal grounds. I'm sure there are various hurdles > due to local and international tax laws. > > Writing invoices to companies worldwide is comparably easy (now > that I figured it out for many different countries). Not so for > individuals (not allowed to collect 'donations', VAT issues, etc). > > I think it would be better to put out such a survey after all of > this has been cleared up. > > --Mike >