Linux Lancers

Founding or running a company is a difficult thing. You have a lot of responsibilities and decisions to make. Especially how to keep your employees happy. MySQL AB has been always a role model for my own company, I fancied the idea of home offices since the very beginning and was very pleased, as I found The hacking business model. It is written by MySQL founder Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius and (first published on his blog) Zak Greant. It has a lot of ground rules how a company can work (in my opinion should work). I agree with the whole concept and would like to pick out some of my favorite points which are:

• The Employee works in distributed company and may work from anywhere.
• The employee MUST speak up if the company is doing something they think is harmful for itself, its employees or customers. It’s crucial for the success of the company that the employees are ‘on board’ with the vision of the company. Politics are strictly forbidden!
• All (not customer classified information) information will be public inside of the company. This includes salaries, bonuses, shares, birthdays, etc..

Dear customers,

if you like these approaches of how to run a business according to the business hacking model, feel free to email me. We’d be more than glad to analyze your current company structure and help you to make the necessary changes to create/transform into a company based on this set of guidelines or just to simply talk about the model itself.

Lukas