List: Co-ops | Curated by Valerie Schafer Franklin

Dec 4, 2023
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Co-ops
Danny Spitzberg
The Slow Demise of LoconomicsA post-mortem of California’s most ambitious #platformcoop, RIP
Apr 28, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
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Aslan Goldenhour
Thanks for this post.For context, I co-founded a tech company that operated with green/teal practices for more than a decade. We’ve had some ex-employees call…
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019
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Dunia
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Ong Kar Jin
The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia”How Valve’s perfect work culture turned into a toxic bully’s yard and what it tells us about “flat hierarchy” workplaces.
Oct 27, 2018
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Oct 27, 2018
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Creators Rising
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Zia M Dione
What’s In It For We? Shifting Towards Cooperative MarketplacesIn shifting towards cooperativism, the question we ask ourselves must become ‘what’s in it for we’ instead of ‘what’s in it for me.’
Aug 20, 2023
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Aug 20, 2023
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Start.coop
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Alissa Orlando
How to fundraise for a cooperative startupThis playbook is designed for cooperative entrepreneurs looking to raise their initial funding. It can guide the first one to two years of…
Mar 24, 2022
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Mar 24, 2022
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The Writing Cooperative
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Justin Cox
We Have to Talk About Substack
Apr 11, 2023
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Apr 11, 2023
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Start.coop
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Danny Spitzberg
Introducing the Ownership Model CanvasA new tool to re-align business success with ownership
Aug 3, 2021
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Aug 3, 2021
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Start.coop
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Greg Brodsky
How To Use the Ownership Model Canvas v1.1We live in an era, where winner-takes-all business ownership continues to perpetuate economic inequality, further widening the racial…
Aug 2, 2022
Aug 2, 2022
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Start.coop
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Greg Brodsky
How to Invest in Cooperatives (Part Two)This post is the second in a series on investing in cooperatively-owned businesses.
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
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Start.coop
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Greg Brodsky
The 3 Reasons We Don’t See More Cooperatively Owned BusinessesDespite the many benefits of cooperatively owned businesses, the cold hard reality is that 99.9% of new businesses are still traditionally…
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
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Start.coop
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Greg Brodsky
How to Invest in Cooperatives (Part One)This post is the first in a two part series on investing in cooperatively-owned businesses.
Mar 25, 2021
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Mar 25, 2021
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Start.coop
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Greg Brodsky
What we learned reviewing 82 applications for a cooperative business acceleratorIn Fall 2018, we opened applications for the inaugural cohort of our new co-op accelerator, Start.coop, to help businesses that are…
Jun 4, 2019
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Jun 4, 2019
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Zebras Unite
Succession: Zebra StyleBig changes are afoot within Zebras Unite! Exciting changes. Anticipated changes. Unanticipated changes. Growth-inducing changes…
Jan 25, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023
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