Stories, templates, and lessons from the field of building the democratic internet.
Investor Owned vs. User Owned Platforms
Traditional startup roadmap Investor ownership is the default for technology companies and startups. Typically, founders go from owning 100% of ...
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Starting A Cooperative Platform: 10 Questions We Answered
Background At Ampled, I’ve led the process of researching the necessary steps and considerations for becoming a cooperative. Starting the ...
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Equity-Free Fundraising: Here are our Revenue-Share Term Sheets
This year, Ampled worked with the CUNY Community & Economic Development Clinic to develop simple revenue share investment term sheets, ...
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Sharetribe Go becomes source-available after being open-source for 8 years
Today, we are changing the license of Sharetribe Go from MIT to Sharetribe Community Public Licence. For 99.9% of the ...
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We’re Converting Our Startup To A Cooperative. Here’s Why.
Last year, our team formed to build Ampled, an ethical web platform that allows music artists to be supported by ...
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The Curafied Co-op Story: A Prequel
by Arielle Jordan I’m the founder and CEO of Curafied. Curafied is a platform that helps digital content creators earn ...
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Savvy Cooperative: What’s in a Name?
by Jen Horonjeff If you’ve ever had to come up with a name for a group, a company, a project, ...
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Update from Resonate, a Music Streaming Co-op
by the Resonate team The last few months since we presented Resonate at the Platform Coop conference in NYC has ...
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