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  Tom Gordon, 25 Aug 2005 @ 4:32am

  
  

  Re: The Rise Of Micro-Multinational Companies

  We're one of these 'micro multinationals', and have been since we launched in 2001. For example, during 2002-2003 we had a full time employee in the USA and a full time employee in Canada, both working on live satellite television in the UK alongside UK-based employees.
  It's a logical extension of online work, and a concept I've been speaking about (http://www.alienpants.com/bizcase.zip) and writing about (I contributed a chapter in the recent Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2 book specifically about providing customer support using online staff).
  All my staff work remotely using the Internet, and frankly I don't care where they live (except when it comes to working out tax :) ). We even had one guy presenting a live TV show from his bedroom using a webcam. That version ran for 11 months, and the show itself is still broadcast daily almsot 3 years later (although they now produce it in a studio using proper cameras).

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  Lorenzo, 25 Aug 2005 @ 5:46am

  
  

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  hopefully, micromultinationals are backed by super detailed legal agreements because the costs of legal action in foreign countries still hasn t gone the way of megabytes and telephone minutes, and it is an incentive to free-rides and outright unfair practices by foreign associates.

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  Chris Maresca, 25 Aug 2005 @ 9:25am

  
  

  been going on for years....

  Back in the early '90's, I had a company with 30 employees, only 10 of which were in the same country as I was. Faxes, phones and FidoNet made it all possible.

  One recent example of this is WSO2, which has (had?) only five employees located in Sri Lanka, London, New York and San Francisco.

  Chris.

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    Vanessa Cross, 25 Aug 2006 @ 4:02pm

    
    

    Meeting the Legal Needs of the Micro-Multinational

    International business lawyers are responding to the growth of micro-multinationals by responding to the legal needs presented by this growth. The new role of the international business lawyer is not to simply respond to the needs of "big business,", but offer the same quality legal services (including drafting concrete contracts) to micro-multinationals.

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  Edward Donnelly, 24 Sep 2006 @ 7:02am

  
  

  Miles=Millimeters

  Aside from the reliance on low cost tech to communicate the other key to the success of a micro-multinational is to have a staff that thinks beyond cultural and political borders.

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