Open Venture Society

The mission of Open Venture Society is to foster a community that helps preserve and honor the ecosystem by creating a very product and service that does some good. The company’s founders addressed their own needs and sought to provide something that would allow the most people and projects to thrive in today’s dynamic environment, economy and market. In all of Open Venture Society's practices, the company’s founding principle is to convert the me to we for a healthier planet and society for all.

The Tao of Open Venture Society

• Reinforce the immune system of our interconnected world, for the benefit of humankind and our whole ecosystem, by exchanging wisdom and supplying technology foundations for the world's ventures and their creators.
• Only conduct business in a way that you can share with your children.
• Show up. Smiling.
• Celebrate the worldwide community of propagators and advocates of Open Source Culture and Open Source Software.
• Allow business cycles to replicate natural cycles and treat business operational modes like circadian rhythms.
• Use only what is necessary to achieve the greatest benefit for all with the least amount of negative impact on people, planet and profit.
• Honor thy fellow employee and client and treat all as you want to be treated.
• Never cast responsibility outside of oneself, as the parts of a cohesive system are many and only maintained through the interconnected functioning whole.
• Seek out both local and global, top down and bottom up, whole systems approaches to all aspects of the venture ecosystem
• Take long walks with no particular destination.
• Run numbers that adhere to Full Cost Accounting and look at the whole impact venture operation has on the environment.
• Keep everything lean and green.
• Sacrifice nothing along the path to a healthy professional life, company and community.
• Do no harm.
• Bring in more joy through better business practice.
• Find exactly what it is that you love to do and infuse it daily into the work that you create.
• Operate in a state of forever beta.
• Maintain large supplies of organic chocolate, cheese and laughter in the company's virtual office at all times.
• Approach technology solutions, events and franchises from city to city with the same united intent to weave a nurturing web throughout the process.
• Transform the company footprint into a quilt of interconnected powerhouses, fueled by passion to create healthy ventures and lives.
• Establish creative currencies through people, their unique resources, and the collective concern to support one another throughout our ventures
• Let the beauty that you see be the work that you do.
• Be in each moment as if it is part of a precious and sacred whole and that the world we seek to create is the one we live in.