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Here we collect various articles written about the RCO – either by ourselves or by others.

Funding the RCO: Sketching possibilities 

This piece dives into the details of funding an RCO. Revisiting the lifecycle, addressing feedback from investor interviews and sketching the structure of an instrument for funding an RCO.

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Breakit: “Modell för syftesdrivet företagande” (in Swedish)

Efter egna entreprenörsresor har Amit Paul och Nils von Heijne fått nog av bolagsbyggande där poängen är att maximera vinst. Nu lanserar duon en ny organisationsmodell för syftesdrivet företagande.

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TechCrunch: “A more ethical company structure”

Called a Regenerative Community Organism (RCO), this novel organizational model is not just a theoretical framework; it aims to be a practical approach.

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How do I become an RCO?

This is the step by step guide to approach it from the bottom up. Fundamentally it is an invitation to aligning your own interests to the needs and desires of the organism you are creating.

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The parts and how they fit together. (Pt 2)

This piece will dig into one further level of detail looking at the different legal documents as well as the different parts of the structure and how they interact with one another.

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The parts and how they fit together (Pt 1)

This is a more technical part. More descriptive. The ambition is not to exhaust the entire model but to sketch it on a high level so that you can grasp which parts of this model do.

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Ask not what you can do for the RCO, ask what it can do for you!

The Regenerative Community Organism (RCO) is fundamentally a path to introducing a balancing act between financial interest and the other interests to serve the idea you’ve generated.

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Remembering responsibility and reintroducing enough in business

This post proposes an argument for looking at responsibility and enoughness in business. It points out how the RCO can assist us in centering on those things as we address our worlds challenges.

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Why the RCO is good for business – especially in complex times

The RCO is not only a nice to have, it is based on cutting edge business and leadership practices when businesses operate in complex or high uncertainty contexts.

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A critique of the start-up model and the corporate landscape

A deep dive and critique of our current approaches to trust, value, mission creep, scale
and complexity in the corporate world and looks at how the RCO proposes a different
approach.

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