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标 题: the demise of a start-up
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri May 14 11:46:27 2021, 美东)
Loconomics, a startup that offered shared services to freelancers, became a
darling of academics and allies interested in platform cooperativism. But
while academics secured grants, Loconomics struggled to gain traction.
Appearances at conference panels and in magazine features never translated
to enough funding or users to scale. So, after six years of bootstrapping,
product pivots, and one big break that didn’t pan out, Loconomics came to
an end in 2020.
workers first. We started out by incorporating as one of California’s first
benefit corporations. But we didn’t feel like “people, planet, profit”