For all the potential of online connection place still matters.
If you live or have deep connections to where an abundance of resources in knowledge, funding (and most important) motivated likeminded colalborators reside you get greater access to those opportunities.
If you do not you do not. Period. No matter how many times you tweet or toot @ them.
For #platfromcoop development in the U.S. it's NYC.
For progressive coop development in general it's Oakland.
Greetings. Here to learn and share some learnings from banging my head against this #platfromcoop thing for the last 3+ years.
In 2014 I formed one of the 1st multi-stake holder platform cooperatives to take on Youtube (google) and give power back to independent media creators.
Neither the internet (nor financiers) seemed quite ready to take the journey then but a lot of progress has been made since.
Looking like it is finally time to #quitfacebook and #killgoogle Huzzah!
Robert Benjamin