the entrepreneurial process?

A considerable financial investment will surely be required to implement the plans outlined in The Yard and Palm Power.

Investors are unlikely to consider such a speculative program.

Taking an incremental approach to the problem of creating a company, I am thinking about less resource intensive product development projects.

I would like to develop the process for counting the trees in a city into a web2.0 product that will allow the public to count things on a map. Users can provide information about the trees - and other objects - around and including their homes, offices, etc. These user contributed observations can then be represented as overlays on the maps constructed by users to their own specifications.

I've designed two kinds of baskets for gardeners - and storage - and two kinds of composters for home use, which I hope to patent and license for production. I want to get into the wooden utensil business.

I'm trying to figure out how to distribute ownership of such a venture. Since one goal is to raise capital for these and future ventures, the investors will require some form of ownership stake. I would also like to distribute some shares to each and every person who participates in the development of the company, including at this early stage.

I'm trying to figure out how this would work. It may be that, some years down the road, the development work done will support a million workers around the world. What would be appropriate compensation for early stage involvement in something like that? (It presumably depends on nature of the role played by that individual.) Also, as new participants join the company, how are shares distributed to them? Presumably, an early stage participant will receive a larger portion of any year's dividend, except in as much as they are not actively involved in the ongoing development process for an extended period, in which case their stake should gradually be diluted by the accumulating shares distributed to newer participants.