Olympics' canopy: WUAS's Business Plan and Conversation, World University and School's online bookstore / computer store ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/03/olympics-canopy-wuas-business-plan-and.html ...

Hi David,

Here's World University and School's wiki Business Plan, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan - and I'll try to dig out the some more number-oriented Business Plans from the 2 HP Open Innovation grants and the 2 MacArthur HASTAC grants WUaS has written, but didn't get. 

In thinking through a current business plan with a 2-3 year horizon, a helpful process, to respond to your question, I wouldn't include the following, that, ... 

MIT has around 1,000 faculty members (not including researchers, let alone staff), and neither has a Law School, nor a Med School, both of which WUaS is planning. (And Harvard has almost 500 full Professors, earning nearly $200,000 per year each). And WUaS would like to become the MIT / Harvard of the Internet and, after the WUaS in English, begin with the U.N. languages and then develop a wiki-school in all 7,413+ languages and an online university in each of all 204+ countries. 

What I would include in an updated business plan is accreditation costs over 3 years, through December 2016, with matriculating bachelor (first in 2014 of up to 2,000 students, then in 2015 and 2016), Ph.D. (in 2015 of up to 500 students and also in 2016), and Law classes (2016 of up to 3,000 students), but not the 1st Medical School class (first matriculating in 2017), all in English, the hiring of an Executive Director, a Director of Fundraising, a Director of Information Technology, and interns (hopefully MIT / Harvard graduate students to facilitate the conference method as graduate student instructors, earning to start $11.50 / hour for 8-12 hours per week), and eventually faculty, beyond these MIT OCW videos - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - with these MIT faculty as our first professors, as well as, and importantly, the beginning of an online bookstore / computer store (e.g. $2,500 for the Quickbooks POS Multi-store software, with support for at least the 6 United Nations' languages, and $500,000 in other startup costs, including the purchase of inventory). 

I'll try to get the figures into a spreadsheet, and itemize a few more aspects, as well.

Diversifying our grant-seeking strategy, beyond governments, companies and philanthropic foundations, is one answer to your last question, and then to overseas' governments and companies, as the bookstore / computer store begins to generate revenue streams. 

Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW creates interesting financial challenges for a startup, CC, MIT-centric University that is WUaS. 

More later, 

Scott