Exit To Community A Community Primer Malene Alleyne Camille Canon Amelia Evans Yichen Feng Nathan Schneider Mara Zepeda by Malene Alleyne & Camille Canon & Amelia Evans & Yichen Feng & Nathan Schneider & Mara Zepeda instant download after payment.

What is a startup for? Who are startups for?

The usual answers
begin sounding strange the more you think about them. A startup is kind
of like a child, some say. Founders pour themselves and their resources
and energy into the thing—but then, unlike a child, they sell it off to
the highest bidders. A lot of founders would love to change the world
for the better, right? But the usual endgame—the "exit"—for a successful
startup is how many of their creations end up getting bought by bigger,
old-world companies or going public on the grand-old establishmentarian
casino, the stock market. Why do we even bother?

Exit to Community
(E2C) is a strategy in the making. It's a different kind of story, one
that connects the founders, workers, users, investors, activists, and
friends who have been trying to feel their way toward a better kind of
startup. Its endgame is to be a long-term asset for its community,
co-owned and co-governed by those who give it life.

We wrote this because we want to make E2C easier, and we hope
you'll join us, because we need your help. Here, we've tried to put
together some ideas and examples of what E2C could mean, based on what
is out there and what is in our hearts. But little of this will really
work unless a whole lot of us team up to fill in the blanks.