I want my company to be…

• somewhere people can innovate.
• somewhere that big and small ideas count
• somewhere Open Source isn’t just a bunch of free tools to make use of
• somewhere that doesn’t just make software – rather someone obsessed with
  making damn fucking good software
• somewhere developers don’t feel they are wasting their time keeping up
  with the bleeding edge
• somewhere extensive knowledge of Ruby, Perl, Cocoa, Linux, HTML, CSS,
  Crypto, Jini, Jabber, Technology X… doesn’t seem useless
• somewhere developers look at each other’s work and think “I’m
  glad that exists”
• somewhere that developers talk to clients, clients talk back and both gain
  from the experience
• somewhere everyone makes money, and has fun doing it
• somewhere that all the staff enjoy each other’s company enough to go out
  for a few beers on a Friday night
• somewhere developers do more than taking stuff out of a database and show
  it on a screen, then take stuff from a form and put it in a database
• somewhere developers aren’t forced to be managers, do sales or answer the
  phone
• somewhere developers don’t feel that in ten years time they’ll be the
  next generation of COBOL programmers
• somewhere where quality counts for something
• somewhere that people are proud to work
• somewhere people would still come to work if they never had to work another
  day in their lives

(adapted from Charles Miller’s
The Desktop Fishbowl and here are the ones I’m not sure about for
different reasons)

• somewhere 90% of the company isn’t old and married
• somewhere that owning a copy of Stevens Unix Network Programming Volume
  1 doesn’t make you feel like an weirdo

[rebelutionary]

He he, welcome to my company 🙂 and
don’t look at the site yet, it will be revamped when the work of the last year and half
will go public 😉 (as in Apache license).