Resources for Growing Zaadz !

I recently read that the vision of the founder of e-Bay was to create a "perfect market- place".  Look how close he has come. By creating the right systems and structures (imagine a irrigation trench to channel water) he created a pathway that channels an incredible amount of economic activity that is largely regulated by the customers of e-Bay through their rating system.

The question is what kind of systems and structures would best support the cultivation of world-changing Zaadz ideas/projects/campaigns/businesses to fruition?  Depending on the skill of the cultivator or the intelligence embedded into the cultivation system... you open up the possibilty of break-through solutions where the law of the harvest comes in ( with returns of 30 fold, 60 fold and 100 fold being very possible).  Nature rewards those who understand her ways.  Remember Malcolm Gladwell's book  The Tipping Point?  Zaadz is on the edge of that tipping point right now, where a My Space type explosion can occur.  So the question of structures and systems is even more vital.   

For example, http://www.fundable.org/ offers a structure for raising money for specific projects (no size limit I think), through a pledge system. Once the goal is met then the pledges are called in and the project is funded. If the target is not met, then the lack of "support" for the idea was a "no" vote in its current form - back to the drawing board.
Just a very cool way of embedding more intelligence into Zaadz existing structure.

To me business incubation is a fundamental activity Zaadz should be developing, so as leaders how can we begin to create opportunities to capitalize on the ideas generated by Zaadster's?

Have you heard of time/dollar? Check out http://www.timedollar.org/ for a way of greasing the wheels of cooperation through the bartering of time. This is a proven tax-exempt, community-based economic model. We could increase its power exponentially by combining it with e-commerce.

Have you heard of ESOP's Employee Stock Ownership Plans? Check out http://www.esopassociation.org/ I first heard of the idea in an old book by Christopher Hills, The Golden Egg. It's worth a read, but the essence of the structure is available online.

Brian mentions the Zaadz Foundation as a way of giving back money, equity and time. What if as a business incubator Zaadz could provide resources for approved startups and projects (or shares tracked by the fundable.org software in exchange for an equity share in the project?

The Zaadz foundation idea could be expanded to capture equity sharing of both Zaadz shares and shares of the companies birthed by Zaadsters. Zaadsters membership / contribution could be recognized by receiving shares in this ESOP foundation.

Finally, what existing tools can be licensed by Zaadz and which ones must be created by our own staff resources. The opportunity to license software at a deep discount for a growing community like Zaadz will be very attractive to companies that are creating online distributed tools. Have you heard of http://www.basecamphq.com/ ?
It's a simple, distributed software for collaboratively managing projects online. Why reinvent the wheel where we don't have to? 

How can we extend Zaadz's functionality most powerfully and quickly through strategic alliances?  How can we prepare our systems to handle viral growth?  What do you think?   
 

Jim