One of the founders of the MySQL database, Michael Widenius, co-wrote a manifesto of sorts with rules for running a company based on egalitarian and sustainable principles. I think it’s a great starting place for anyone looking to start their own company. It was originally posted on Zak Greant’s blog, and later used for founding Monty Program AB.

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Launch is a stressful time for web start-ups. It’s the culmination of many month’s hard work, arguments, agreements, feature debates, and design decisions. Someone runs a deploy script and poof! You’re not in Kansas anymore, and you’ll certainly need a brain, a heart and a fair share of courage.

A slide deck from Netflix explaining their corporate culture.

In this paper, we examine the apparent conflict between artistic and commercial objectives within creative companies, taking as our point of departure a particularly energetic debate during a symposium at the 2007 Academy of Management meetings.

Ian Rogers, CEO ot Topspin Media's presentation to the Grammy music tech summit.

What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over.

With this in mind, I put together a list of ten principles that I've gleaned from my open source experience, which I believe can be applied to just about any business.