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I work at a worker-owned IT company that has offices in three states and has been in existence for 20 years. We do not provide any kind of SaaS service but I can assure you it is p…

I'm also a huge fan of games that use a standard deck. I absolutely love Regicide for example, which can be purchased with an original deck (the art is nice) but plays with any 52-…

I've visited Mondragon, both the city (and the region) as well as many of the co-ops themselves. I did a small slideshow/presentation for those interested: https://docs.google.com/…

They don't pay for it all at once. They get a loan from the co-op bank (Laboral Kutxa).

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why it is so important to start as a co-op, rather than convert later.

It really depends. In IT (where VC is king) it is really hard to compete on a monetary level. On the other hand, benefits are pretty good - healthcare, time off, sick days etc. Als…

I have founded two worker co-ops; both in the tech sector. Whenever one of these posts hits reddit or this website, there is a surge of interest - and then nothing. Our rate of gro…

I'm the founder of this co-op - and no, it isn't consensus based. In fact, we made a point of NOT doing things by consensus! Not all co-ops are consensus-based, in fact I'd say the…

You should reach out to NoBAWC ( http://nobawc.org ) and http://techworker.coop (and the list serv). My worker co-op started out in the Bay Area and now is bi-coastal; SV is full o…

I just built this in Ubuntu; works well enough - however it is identical to just running an "app" from Chromium; so I think I'll keep doing that.

They keyboard sucks because of design, not Linux - see: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Thin... I love my 1st gen; it's really depressing that they did this…

Whoops, wrong link (on my phone, still no excuse). Here is the one I was referring to: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/12/harvard-study-debunks-y... The myth is that businesses w…

So sick of hearing this - what actual evidence do you have? People's reviews get filtered because the user doesn't have human-identifiable data - multiple reviews, friends who use …

Hello all. I have founded two worker cooperatives, both in the tech sector. I am also a moderator of the subreddit http://reddit.com/r/cooperatives . Check out the sidebar for a wh…

Hello all. I have founded two worker cooperatives, both in the tech sector. I am also a moderator of the subreddit http://reddit.com/r/cooperatives . Check out the sidebar for a wh…

This article was absolutely fascinating, in particular because it compared traditional worker co-ops with Valve's unusual horizontal-style organization. I'm a former worker-owner a…