It’s been quite some year since Start-up fever spread through the millenial generation, and the movement is looking quite tired. The dreams of so many to take control of their own destinies, to work with passion with a small group of chosen collaborators and build something of value have been wrecked against the shores of corporate financial drudgery and predatory capitalism. You wanted to create a great product or service, but you were told you had to conform and attract investors. You had to don the clothes and adopt the language of the corporate environment, the sense of adventure and freedom you started with became closeted, betrayed and bored to death and struggled on determined to make your ‘exit’. The giving up at the end of your slog that would let you do something else with your life.
The Start-up methodology is by now a refined process, it may be efficient and effective but does it really serve anyone except prehaps a class of wealthy investors who feed and fatten the selected into giant corporates. Most begin their journey being told that 90% will fail but are undeterred, however after some years the dream has lost in shine.
Social enterprises no longer have the profit motive to drive employee, as these scale and the corporate layer decends. Little has changed. Yes, working for an ethical mission sure beats working for wealthy investors but must the standard corporate culture dominate every take on economic collaboration. It’s not that having you Q4 targets written down isn’t useful, but do we have to copy the dull dry language of the global corporate culture and appropriate it our working collaborations. Astralships is a methodology supported by a web app, that is designed to faciltate a more playful approach to independent economic collaboration. Life is a journey, an unfolding process, along the way you decide there are place you want to go, a world you want to see and you think there maybe other who want to go there with you. To go there effectively you and your crew need a vehicle, a ship. It could be a pirateship or a intergalactic space ship, but it should be a vehicle that sustains you and your crew, provides for your needs and helps you get to where your going effectively. Your ship is an imaginary entity, one that binds you and you collaborators together as a crew. Astralships is a web app that helps you in the process. Your ship might register legal entities in one or money of our earthly juristictions, but will legally these start ups might look like they always did, your collaborations home will be your ship. Astralships online helps you as a crew decide where you want to go. Many fall foul of common easily avoidable pitfalls. The Astralships online platform has capture the wisdom of business mentors and collaboration coaches and One of these is not having clear agreements between your crew. The Astralships layout a process for the crew to follow, infact there are multiple options you can choose from, the crew might also elect to ignore the suggestion in the app and follow their own but the key thing is that you don’t end up following no process.