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Julie headed to New York to speak at the third global platform cooperativism conference: The People’s Disruption - Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges. bHive was live streamed from New York [...]

Trebor Scholz came to Australia from the New school in New York for two events. Ian presented bHive at the Melbourne Law School and bHive Director and Julie joined [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]