Collective Financing for Technology Startups
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Topic
Collective Financing for Technology Startups
Description
Please describe the nature of your session activity
In this discussion, we introduce developing practices for startup financing including exit to community, regenerative finance, capped returns, windfall distributions, voluntary taxes, various forms of worker and stakeholder equity, foundation ownership, perpetual purpose trusts, etc. As a group, we’ll (1) share peoples’ experiences as founders and funders and (2) explore these alternative financing strategies through the lens of bonding companies to communities.
Hopes & dreams
Kick start “To Community”, an open research project / interview series to collect founder and funder perspectives on collective financing.
Produce a deliverable: a realistic (and inspiring!) narrative about how collective financing could work in the startup financing ecosystem we currently have; who would need to change for that to happen, and why would they change?
Core facilitators
Divya Siddarth, Luke Miller, Joshua Tan
Main contact (email)
Space Requirements
- [] Electricity
- [] Monitor
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Whiteboard or pad - [] Table and chairs
- [] Seating in circle
- [] Open space outdoors
- [] Either indoors or outdoors is fine
- [] Other (Specify)
Time Requirements
- [] 1 hour
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2 hours - [] Multiple sessions across 1 day
- [] Multiple sessions across 2 days
- [] Multiple sessions across 3 days
- [] Pre breakfast session
- [] Evening session
- [] Other (Specify)
Who should participate
- [] Coders
- [] Creatives
- [] Policymakers
- [] Children under 12
- [] Teens 12 - 18
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Anyone and everyone -
Other (Specify): founders and funders
What will participants take away?
Current research on alternative and collective financing.
Pathways towards regenerative or community-involved funding opportunities.
Keywords
Financing, community, governance, startups
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Relevant Experience -- share why you'll be great!
Josh, Luke, and Divya are researchers at Metagov, Oxford, Notre Dame, and RadicalXChange who conduct research on collective ownership, community governance, and the future of the internet. We are deeply passionate about collective financing models, and the need for collective governance for tech broadly, and are excited to pursue collaborative paths towards making these more of a reality.
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