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[video] Co-founder Evan Henshaw-Plath explains what really happened to Twitter(youtube.com)
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Figuring Out the Freelance Economy(vice.com)
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by alannallama 10y ago
If any developers are thinking about getting started with accessibility, I would definitely encourage you to! Here's a short video of my co-founder talking about our journey with this in our startup, and how you can take some first ste
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A New Economic Vision That Mixes Together Occupy, Amish Culture, and Startups(yesmagazine.org)
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by alannallama 10y ago
Yes! I agree that what we need is real world examples and experimentation. Loomio will have a presence at the next Platform Coops conference, so hope to see you there :)
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by alannallama 10y ago
Thanks! I'll check that. Meanwhile, you can find our repo here: http://www.github.com/loomio/loomio
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by alannallama 10y ago
Thanks! A big part of our mission is to demonstrate it's possible to do a co-op tech startup and run a company more in line with democratic values. If being transparent about how we've done it can help, that's awesome. Best o
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by alannallama 10y ago
Not very codified. We've done an OK job tracking them over the years and have good records, but haven't yet made decisions about under what conditions they would be paid out. We can't attribute specific dollar value to them a
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by alannallama 10y ago
Yes I've watched some of his talks. Good stuff.
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by alannallama 10y ago
This is correct. Coordinators do serve some of the same functions as a manager, but the difference is they are appointed by the people they are managing. We call this "dynamic hierarchies by consent". Coordination also rotates, an
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by alannallama 10y ago
Ownership means all the rights and responsibilities of an equal co-owner of the business. Each member has one share. When someone leaves the co-op, they surrender their share and are no longer a co-owner. For a worker-owned co-op it's
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by alannallama 10y ago
So far for us, a year has been enough time to evaluate new members. But we take each one on a case by case basis and if we weren't totally confident I could imagine giving it a bit more time. We also do a 3 month provisional membership
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by alannallama 10y ago
The requirement is that the workers are the owners of the business, legally and in terms of responsibilities and powers. All Loomio worker-members own the company together, equally, and no one who isn't a worker has any powers as an ow
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by alannallama 10y ago
The members appoint the Board[0], and the Board makes decisions about surplus. If the Board distributed surplus in a way not in accordance with member wishes, we would just fire the Board. Members also appoint the coordinators[1]. Coordinat
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by alannallama 10y ago
Hiring and firing happen through our Employment[0] and Membership[1] processes. The most important concept to get is that ownership and employment are the same thing in a co-op. If someone is no longer employed, they will cease to be a co-o
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by alannallama 10y ago
When it comes to company structures, I think form should follow function. It all depends on what you really want to do with your company. Sure, it's easier to use a known structure, but actually you can set up your company almost any w
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by alannallama 10y ago
Thank you! We are still figuring so many things out, but we want to be as transparent as possible if it might help others learn about co-op startups and different ways of doing things. The hardest moments have probably been at structural tr
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by alannallama 10y ago
They are indeed rare, although I very much hope they will become more common. Co-ops aren't a radical new idea, in fact they are one of the oldest company structures we have. I think they have become rare because the industrial economy
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by alannallama 10y ago
Loomio co-founder here, happy to answer any questions.
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The Loomio Cooperative Handbook: How we run a worker-owned tech startup(loomio.coop)
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by alannallama 10y ago
It's actually not uncommon when speaking to have to either draw a kanji in the air, or refer to the symbol you mean by cross-referencing another word that uses it to disambiguate.
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by alannallama 10y ago
That's why you see services with lots of pictographic functions eclipse pure test-based ones in Asia, because they are very used to that kind of symbolic communication. And why complex emoji using text characters in creative ways were
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The Socialist Entrepreneur – Interview: Rich Bartlett from Loomio(thesocialistentrepreneur.com)
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Group Smells: anti-patterns in collaboration(medium.com)
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Should I do a coding boot camp or a university degree?(medium.com)
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Running Agile Scrum on Our Relationship(medium.com)
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Taking Holacracy Governance to the Next Level(blog.loomio.org)
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6 essential tools for high-functioning, collaborative teams(medium.com)
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Bootstrapping a bossless organisation in 3 easy steps(medium.com)
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Org Refactor: upgrading a distributed network without bosses(medium.com)
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