There Is No Spoon

The economy is horrible. Well tell me something I don't know. I have been effected by it as much as the next person. So how do you get funding for your company in this climate?

Realization: There is no funding.
Realization: There is no spoon.

Just like in the Matrix - when you realize that there is no spoon you can bend it anyway you would like. Recently, I realized that since there is no funding - I need to utilize the resources that are available to me and get this company started on knowing that there is no funding for someone like me. Small, limited resources, limited time. This gives me tremendous freedom to bend the spoon anyway I like.

So here is the plan. Gather my very eager students into small teams of 4 or 5. Provide the tools needed to build a game. Have the team present concept documents, vote on what to build. Since I don't have money to pay them, give them equity in the game they build. Basically, they work for a percentage if the game makes money.

Let's see if this works. If the games don't make money then at least my students get shipped games on their resume. I expect that some of them will hit and some will miss. Just like life.