Synthasite announced this morning, that it will be giving away 1,000,000 free shares in Synthasite (Pty) Ltd to it’s community. As far as we are aware (and correct me if I’m wrong), we’re the first Web 2.0 company that has ever offered to give away free shares to it’s web community in exchange for helping to build the business. I’ve often thought that early adopters for startups should share in the successes of the companies that they support. I know how much I would have liked to be given free shares early on in Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Digg and other such companies, when they were still fledgling. Well, luckily, I can now deliver to our users, what I’ve always wanted to receive. In the true spirit of Web 2.0, we want to empower our community and make them feel like stakeholders in the business, with all the upside.
Synthasite aims to build a very strong and devoted community over the next few months and years, and to that end, we will be releasing free shares for certain development projects that the community can assist us with, in today’s example, Template Design, but in future, it will include stuff like language translations, component development, activity in the forums, etc.
Please help spread the word to designers out there - this is a milestone for us, and with the upcoming Beta, you can play a part in building out our template library, and see your templates used by thousands of people (and get free links back to your site, in addition to the free shares!).
Update: Synthasite’s share offer just got featured on TechCrunch
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