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That "minimal #" being 1. There is at least 1 company that allows you to do it. There might be others too, but this is the one I know (I'm not from USA, and don't play on the USA market).

Well there is OneShare.com .

SCOX is not there yet... Just ask...

Perhaps it'll eventually show up as an option at OneShare.com.

This is actually a great idea. Over at oneshare they have Martha Stewart. One good villian deserves another. I'm not sure if they have SCO though.

"Google's focus on R&D doesn't really mesh with the financial accountability of a publicly traded company"

"Modern shareholders are chickenshit squatters who care more about their liqudity of their portfolio then they do about the future of the company or its products."

True innovation and really new developments will always come from small business, where commitee thinking is almost non existant and against the grain geniuses are considered an asset and not dangerous dead wood.

As soon as the head of a company gets his eyes on the prize of some arbitrarily huge number of lucrative options, you can pretty much forget about taking risks. Every company I've worked for that's gone IPO has very suddenly switched into maintenance mode, treading water in a market they were breaking records in with a casual sidestroke. Red tape increases and so does the ratio of useful hours to administrative BS. And strong, brave CEOs easily cave under the heel of a room full of industry delphis with the power to fire indiscriminately.

Product failures mean firings of smart people to appease the same. And there's always the chance that some rogue company with a discordant worldview will take you over, complete with more firings for "redundancy" and to afford bullshit multi million dollar "Good Faith" payments. Can you imagine Google owned by Inktomi...or Slashdot owned by Microsoft?

Google doesn't seem to be struggling. They have the position and the clout to manipulate the fund -- repay -- fund cycle necessary to afford new development. So who cares if you want a framed Google OneShare?

This is better for you. It's better for us. It's better for them. (With all due respect to Cap. K)

For those of us that use Macs, and want to show some support for Apple stock (which has _always_ been badmouthed by investors, although that may have changed a bit), a good idea is to buy one share.

Go to Oneshare and buy just one share of apple stock.

Since these stocks aren't resold, it's a way of inflating the price a bit; provided enough of us buy a share or two. Since I'm not an investor I'm not sure how many people it would take to actually make a dent though.

$7 according to one share. That's only $6 more than K-MART!! Haha hahahah. OSS is NOT a valid business model. http://goatse.cx