With Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, the resource utilization of a business is simply an algorithm, which can use any number of APIs to return profit and grow the entity.
All of these APIs we are creating for various functions may soon replace us. Many APIs already do directly dispatch humans to do certain tasks. The scary part is that when someone is providing a service to you, they may not be aware of whether their superior is a human or an algorithm.
A minimum viable autonomous corporation could be a lemonade stand that is managed entirely by an algorithm; with virtual currency it can hire a person to set up a lemonade stand at a certain datetime, and take a cut of earnings. If sales are slow, it could hire someone to design a poster, and another to post them in the area; or even an analyst to decide what the best course of action is. Over time, with many locations and employees, it would be able to learn the best locations and conditions for optimal profit. Perhaps also deciding which employees to continue working with and which ones to fire.
These "management algorithms" would likely need to be developed by someone. But what if the algorithm hired the person to write the algorithms, updates, and performance tweaks?
There could be a bootstrap algorithm that is simply an idea (these could be automatically generated based on search trends, market fluctuations, etc). These seeds would be open to the public for investment with virtual currency (bitcoin could be used to allocate the cap table as well), the program would be able to hire talent to build out the idea, and the investors would receive dividends.
I see this evolving as a kickstarter for viral autonomous businesses. And I don't see why it couldn't be viable with today's technologies and APIs.