Exit To Community: A New Option For Startups? - Info and Reading Options

The Internet Archive:

<p>When a startup company takes early investment, typically the expectation is that everyone is working toward one of two “exit” events: selling the company to the investor-owners of a bigger company or selling to stock-market investors in an initial public offering. What if there were a third option, an “exit to community,” in which a startup transitions to ownership by the people who rely on it most?</p> <p>Those people might be users, workers, customers, participant organizations, or a combination of such stakeholder groups. The mechanism for co-ownership might be a cooperative, a trust, or even crypto-tokens. The community might own the whole company when the process is over, or just a substantial-enough part of it to make a difference. These kinds of outcomes could help prevent the accountability crises that now beset today’s most successful venture-backed startups.</p> <p>In this participatory webinar, we’ll hear from entrepreneurs, investors, and activists who are working to make exit-to-community a viable option in the startup economy. We will also work together to devise some plausible pathways for how such exits might become a reality.</p> <h2>Speakers</h2> <ul><li>Camille Canon (Purpose Network)</li><li>Bruno Haid (founder, Roam)</li><li>Scott Heiferman (founder, Meetup)</li><li>Arielle Jordan (founder, Curafied)</li><li>Jonathan Moore (founder, RowdyOrb.it)</li><li>Modupe Odele (attorney, Tiphub)</li><li>Mara Zepeda (founder, Switchboard and Zebras Unite)</li></ul><h2>Read more</h2> <ul><li>“<a href="https://hackernoon.com/startups-need-a-new-option-exit-to-community-ig12v2z73" rel="nofollow">Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community</a>,” <em>Hacker Noon</em> (September 16, 2019)</li><li>“<a href="https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/meetup-to-the-people-how-a-zebra-could-rise-from-a-unicorns-fall-cfa93d83bcdc" rel="nofollow">Meetup to the People: How a Zebra could Rise from a Unicorn’s Fall</a>,” @sexandstartups on Medium (November 5, 2019)</li></ul><div><em>Hosted by the <a href="http://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/" rel="nofollow">Media Enterprise Design Lab</a> at the University of Colorado Boulder and <a href="https://www.zebrasunite.com/" rel="nofollow">Zebras Unite</a>, with support from the Open Society Foundations, which are not responsible for the content.</em></div>

Search for “Exit To Community: A New Option For Startups?” downloads:

Visit our Downloads Search page to see if downloads are available.

Find “Exit To Community: A New Option For Startups?” in Libraries Near You:

Read or borrow “Exit To Community: A New Option For Startups?” from your local library.

• The WorldCat Libraries Catalog: Find a copy of “Exit To Community: A New Option For Startups?” at a library near you.