Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship Startups for the 99%

Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99% details the implications of the post-capitalist society on entrepreneurship around the globe, and it challenges many of our underlying assumptions about how entrepreneurs form startups and the objectives and roles, or lack thereof, of startup investors in a post-capitalist society. The author explores real emerging stories about different forms of post-capitalist entrepreneurship (PCE) with chapters dedicated to subjects such as platform cooperatives, alternative currencies (local, crypto, and time banking), and the emergence of blockchain-enabled Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

This book will help aspiring and current entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers to:

• Understand emerging trends in new forms of economic activity that will shape the future of entrepreneurial opportunities
• Discover new approaches to business modeling in the post venture-capital opportunity space
• Embrace Lean startup and collaborative startup approaches that can accelerate startups in these new markets
• Recognize new spaces and avoid being disintermediated by new forms of startups and financing
• Know why and how local governments should reshape entrepreneurship policy to support post-capitalist entrepreneurship for the 99%

Foreword. Introduction. Drivers of a Shift to PostCapitalism. Commons-Based Entrepreneurship. For-Benefit Startups. Alternative Currencies and Place-Based PCE. From the Platform Deathstars to Technology-Enabled Platform Cooperativism. Venture Capital is Dead in a PCE World. The Distributed Autonomous Organization. What does a Future Society look like with PCE from a Regional Perspective. Appendices

Boyd Cohen obtained his Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and strategy from the University of Colorado in 2001. Boyd has taught entrepreneurship in Madrid, Spain (Instituto de Empresa); Costa Rica (INCAE), University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in Canada, UdeSA (Argentina) and currently at the Universidad del Desarrollo (Santiago, Chile). He has published numerous articles on entrepreneurship, sustainability and smart cities in journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing, Technovation, Business Strategy and the Environment, California Management Review, Organization & Environment and many others.Furthermore, Boyd is the co-author, with Hunter Lovins, of the acclaimed 2011 book, entitled Climate Capitalism. In 2016, he published The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur (Praeger) with a foreward by Richard Florida. The book immediately shot up and remained to #1 on Amazon.com’s hot list for entrepreneurship.

Boyd has also started numerous ventures since 2003 in the areas of green buildigns and communities, Software as a Service (SaaS), mobile applications and carbon origination. Currently he is founder of Urban Innova, a boutique urban innovation consultancy. Boyd is a regular keynote speaker related to topics pertaining to urban innovation and entrepreneurship and smart and sustainable cities around the globe. He has been interviewed for CNN (in Chile), appeared on the cover of trade journals in Sweden and Chile, and cited in hundreds of articles online and in print media and in 2012 was a TEDx presenter.