Ben Werdmüller, former venture capitalist and Indieweb startup founder, responds to Zeldman's essay Nothing Fails Like Success, with an elaboration on the traps of VC funding and the potential that "zebras" and the Indieweb hold for ethical funding of tech projects.
The Exit to Community (E2C) project is a collaboration between MEDLab at the University of Colorado Boulder and Zebras Unite. They outline a healthier alternative for startups which often get acquired or go public. Instead, they argue for an "Exit to Community — a path for startups to become owned and controlled by users, workers, and stakeholders who value and depend on the startup."
The NYC-based cooperative that offers a driver-owned economically equitable alternative to Uber and Lyft has launched a crowd investment campaign on the WeFunder platform. Their goal is $1m and are over half way there.
OM is a great online newsletter about startups and funding for the solidarity economy. It's a Substack-style site of interviews, reviews and original features put out by Washington DC cooperative development group Community Cooperative.