We are shortlisted!

Writing a business plan to fit

First, my heartfelt congratulations to you, Ilaria, and teh rest of the crowd :slight_smile: Very well done, and you already have my vote.

For Economy App, we once applied to a German startup competition and mentioned, as part of the revenue streams, that we would also include “donations” in barter value. That kind of created an allergic reaction in a jury that was expecting square, standard business plans, and of course we did not win this :stuck_out_tongue: So yes, I agree with Alberto that unMonastery needs a kind of “square” business plan for its official side in order to win … . Which will mean to write the business plan to fit: not mentioning donations from the locals even though that would be there additionally in practice, and adding an agreeable sort of transactions (per-project crowdfunding? or even crowdfunding in barter from the local population, using Economy App? just thinking loud …).

I’m not sure if the scaling model of the unMonastery is unacceptable from an impact and even business perspective. There are multiple approaches to scaling / growing, and the Hub network for exampel transitioned to a loose federation of independently operated places (while they started with a more centralized model, which failed).

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