Why Participate

 Openness, free content and services, collaboration, and sharing resources are all distinctive characteristics of the Internet that encourage new and exciting businesses to emerge; Businesses that profit from openness rather than control and protection of their content. The first step to understanding how Open Business can be successful is to comprehend the type of entrepreneur who pursues such a strategy, which is The Idea behind the OpenBusiness site.

We have listed some of the advantages that we believe you can take from joining this online community.

A Global Community
 Through employing the opportunities that the internet creates, OpenBusiness provides a global community of open businesses. Using the OpenBusiness website this innovative community can employ new methods of both generating and implementing business ideas.
 This network brings you into contact with some great minds of the Information Age – Lawrence Lessig, Joi Ito, Cory Doctorow to name but a few.

Fostering Innovation through Mutual Learning
 The Open Business project will foster innovation though mutual learning. It allows people to post their ideas directly onto the site where they can receive valuable comments and suggestions from the OB community. Peer review can identify flaws, inconsistencies and pitfalls in a business model and also provide suggestions on how to circumvent them.

Mentoring and Advice
 In the future we intend to have a group of students from the Said business school, the London School of Economics and Shift Space working on the project. Along with our partners, they will be able to provide mentoring and advice for businesses.

Exposure and publicity
 Submitting a model is that it is a great way of increasing your visibility. It lets the world know who you are and what you are doing. Publishing your ideas or models on OpenBusiness will credit you for the contributions you provide both on the blog and in the Wiki. This helps to build up your recognition of your ideas and your work in the open business community.