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In short, started as a nonprofit focused on research, and eventually, allow businesses to grow based on these open technologies.
Research Areas
Self intros
Update of where we are
Budgetting for operations of a grant
Scenarios
Products
- Energy
- Kits
- Turn-key solutions
- Family
- SME
- Large enterprise
Potential Business Structures
| Name | Pros | Cons | Comment | Abigail | Tafia | Elaine | Cesar | SUM | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Government-owned enterprise from start | Credible & respected. Government support | Paperwork inefficiency, and bureaucratic approval cycles can be slow | How does it affect the community in Serangan? | 1 | |||||
Start-up → Acquired Government-owned enterprise | |||||||||
Startup → Acquired by a larger company | |||||||||
Start-up → Larger Energy Company, possibly listed (IPO) | Might be hard to stay open source | ||||||||
SME, stay small | We could have the government as a partner to make it easier for approvals. Telecom has incubation programs. | 10 | 9 | ||||||
Nonprofit, stay small | 8 | ||||||||
Nonprofit, that become big | |||||||||
Social Enterprise | Great to establish traction with a lot of goodwill | 9 | 9 | 10 | |||||
Energy Cooperative | 10 | ||||||||
Royalties to Serangan | Serangan remains the local producer and R&D |
Who owns the installation?
Who earns the operational profits?
What’s the ambitions of Serangan People?
What’s
Abigail: right now, we’re at the research stage. So we should get research money for R&D.
Investor Presentation → ROI
Community Presentation → Jobs, energy
Government Presentation → Environment, Jobs, energy, economy