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We would like every VALIS customer to know that our business model is different from most other software publishers in that we have a co-op structure and are revenue funded. We represent talented independent developers and share profits and accountability for their product's success. That's right; no VC's, no stockholders; just us (two owners and the rest subcontractors and developers and lawyers). The VALIS Group started out as an experiment 6 years ago when we were set free due to a company downsizing. We started our company with the idea that developers are typically undervalued in companies. We wanted to make the inventors profit sharing partners instead of employees. So, instead of requiring ownership of source code, we felt the ownership of the exclusive publishing rights of any product derived from that code or developed for the same market, was all that we would need to protect our interests. This way the developers we work with can hold onto their source code if they agree not to compete with us in any way. Since we are small, we can offer a profit-sharing model where we fund the publishing and guerilla marketing ourselves and put our sweat equity into launching the product. This is an incubator model. The developers we work with, would not have published their products otherwise because they weren't able to convince a larger publisher to work with them this way. We assume the initial risk of believing in new technologies and proving their market value then we will offer these products, ongoing engineering and their source rights to larger companies for acquisition. We take an active role in our industry's dialogue about how to nurture high technology R&D.