2017: bHive Cooperative Formation
Antony McMullin, cooperative guru/junkie helped us form our cooperative rules. It was hard work! The cooperative model rules seems to have been created in a pre industrial age. We [...]
Antony McMullin, cooperative guru/junkie helped us form our cooperative rules. It was hard work! The cooperative model rules seems to have been created in a pre industrial age. We [...]
Thanks to the beautiful Bendigo community we are off and running with Phase 1 of the bHive cooperative project. It is very exciting. Depending on how fast we go, […]
The bHive pitch night was like a dream. We worked hard to put together our prospectus and build and promote the pitch event, right down to the installation of [...]
For the first time we laid out who we were, what we wanted to do and what funding we needed to get there. The ask was $140,000 to build [...]
We came up with a list of a hundred possible names. But it was the very talented Dale Harris from Studio Inc (who does all of our brilliant graphics [...]
We took bHive through the Crunch program, building the business model, the financials and the pitch. It was a solid six months of hard research and analysis.
Whilst googling what a sharing economy might look like we found this conference on Internet. Ownership. Democracy. A coming out of the cooperative internet. We sat up all night as speaker [...]
Ian reaches the final 10 in the Myer Innovation Fellowship, an annual prize that gives three $100,000 prizes. His application was investigate “A Replicable Bendigo Sharing Economy Hub”. So [...]
bHive CoFounders Clare Fountain and Ian McBurney, with a bunch of brilliant micro business owners Founded Bendigo’s first CoWorking Hub in partnership with Haven; Home, Safe. Our first Sharing [...]
After venture capital hit the sharing economy in the mid 2000s there was an explosion of different platforms that rose and fell and thrived. Uber and Airbnb emerged as [...]