Large scale collaboration

papajohn56

papajohn56

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So I can't find that this has been done, but wondering an opinion here. What would you guys say to something like a large collaboration project, where everyone equally works on it, and dumps in an equal amount of money to fund it? The end result would be equal shares (if you didn't do your share, your ass gets voted out of the collab), split profits, and everyone gets more knowledge from it to work with their own projects as well.

yes, no, flame, "this is fucking stupid", "this is great", input?

edit: it could be a website to SEO, it could be a media buy, it could be PPC/PPV, anything. I figure the collective brains here could make something bigger work
 


In a perfect world this might actually work.

If you want to go down that route do it in 2 or max 3 people team.
 
Only way i'd work with people in this way in this industry "on a large scale" would be a) if i knew them b) if we worked out of the same office and c) no more then 4 of us
 
A lot of the bigger guys work with small teams. But a project you expect to get money out of with a large group of people? Not going to happen. Could try a crowdsourcing model but honestly if you ask me that model is very very flawed in a lot of ways.

Collaboration projects work well in open source software. For example I always thought that taking 202 to a project on sourceforge that really grew it out into something special would be cool. But think at the bottom of it most people are too busy making money. And too guarded to want to give to many people to much of their information. This is why things always default to working in small teams with a few guys you trust.
 
I've worked with 3 and it's been effective.

I wouldn't be against working with more but then everyone would have to be comfortable with the split. For instance, there's no way in hell I'd consider doing an even split when one of the project people are just doing graphics or design ... some aspects are simply more important or more difficult than others.

Also, the more people that are involved, the more potential a project would have to have in order to make it worth everyone's time.
 
It could work for offer/network intelligence similar to something like affspy or offervault. Affiliates anonymously add their data to see what epcs, ecpms, c/r certain offers are collectively producing and see what media the networks have at that time. This way everyone who contributes would benefit and it gives an incentive to share data within a group. Then again it would most likely be plauged with a bunch of misinformation by advertisers and networks, people uploading bunk data, not keeping things up to date, etc. This is not my idea but I was discussing the potential with another wf member.
 
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