Co_Reentry

4 ms·

1.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
Hey Sorry just seeing this. Well this depends on your co-ops operating agreement. For us patronage (and membership) is defined by any person (like a beating heart human not "person" like entity) doing work for the cooperative on a
2.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear. I don't mean to say that there should not be a focus on member (employee or otherwise) happiness. Actually quite to the contrary. Co-ops do a much better job of aligning incentives for all stakeholders
3.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
Very little lol. I actually submitted a talk to conference.coop titled "Platform Cooperativism AKA A Worker Co-op with a Website." But like any cooperative you can expand your membership to include any stakeholder. Users, workers,
4.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
This sounds rad! Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about it joseph at tribeworks.io
5.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
Well _I_ don't need a new term lol. The term was popularized by folks at the New School who brought people together under the name platform.coop. I actually think it is a bit problematic, because it creates a false narrative around the
6.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
While mondragon is a great example of a "scaled" cooperative. There are other (somewhat smaller, but still meaningful) examples. Take Cooperative Home Care Associates ( http://www.chcany.org ) around 1500 homecare worke
7.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
Platform cooperatives in my opinion are just another name for a cooperative who conducts the bulk of their business online. this can be a worker cooperative ( https://www.upandgo.coop/ ), a multi-stakeholder cooperative ( htt
8.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
I think that there is real value in thinking more broadly about the cooperative model when building any new business! As a way to align incentives it makes a lot of sense. I am part of a growing tech worker cooperative called Tribe Works (
9.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
I am part of a cooperative called Tribe Works ( https://tribeworks.io ). We are currently in beta but definitely looking for new members!
10.
by Co_Reentry 7y ago
I have read "everything for everyone" and agree on some of the major points it and this article raises. I do think that there might be a bit of context missing from this thread and the article in general. I think someone pointed o
11.
by Co_Reentry 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my intention. I (generally speaking) classify work as either productive or reproductive. In this case the productive work being the engineering and the reproductive being sales, marketing, admin, Etc. Both play ver
12.
by Co_Reentry 8y ago
Don't do any of these things until someone wants to pay you for what you are selling.
13.
by Co_Reentry 8y ago
I usually don't comment on these threads but felt the need to jump in. While I totally understand and agree that ANY business needs to turn a profit in order to stay in the market. I fundamentally disagree with the distribution of work
14.
by Co_Reentry 9y ago
Richard, Thanks for your effort in the reentry space! The struggle for returning citizens is real and constant and I love seeing things like this on HN. At one point I worked for a company apploi.com that had a similar business model but ta