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Mission+Market+Web Hybrid Summit
June 16, 2009 - 930am - 530pm, plus dinner -- 650 Castro Street, Mountain View.
More and more, we see new organizations that mash up public benefit missions, market strategies and web-like organizing structures. Mozilla. Miro. Wikipedia. Kiva. And many others. This event is for mission+market+web hybrid orgs like these.
Goals for the day
- Dig into tough questions like finance, business models, compensation, balancing mission and money.
- Swap practical skills and ideas by sharing real world stories of how our orgs have grappled w/ these issues.
- Look for ways to explain, promote and grow the hybrid concept together over time.
Questions for the day
- Does a public benefit mission offer a competitive advantage? How do you leverage it?
- How do you find revenue models that drive mission? When do you turn money down?
- When do you make un-economic decisions? When do you switch to economics only?
- Where do you get investment to scale and build products that compete in the market?
- How do you explain your org model to the world? ... your community? ...the government?
- How do you balance community contribution and quality product?
- What are the dynamics of people management in a hybrid org?
- How do you recruit and retain top notch people?
- feel free to add to this list
Agenda
- 9:00 - Coffee and registration
- 9:30 - Opening Session: Building Better Hybrids! Context and goals for the day.
- 10:00 - Interview: Hybrid True Confessions. Discussion w/ three leading hybrid orgs about motivations and pain points. Stephen DeBerry interviews: Jessica Flannery, Kiva; Peter Jerram, Public Library of Science; John Lilly, Mozilla.
- 11:00 - Unconference Round #1. 2 x 45 min group discussions focused on operational pain points faced by hybrids.
- Possible topics: finance; business models; recruiting; legal structures.
- Each person brings 3 questions/ challenges, and 1 thing to teach others.
- 12:30 - Lunch, networking and more discussion
- 1:30 - Interview: Creating Better Hybrid Orgs. Based on morning content, hybrid leaders reflect on what's working and big future opportunities. Mark Surman interviews: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla; Jim Fruchterman, Benetech; Laurie Racine, DotSub etc..
- 2:00 - Unconference Round #2. Small group discussions focused on big picture.
- Possible topics: marketing the hybrid concept; helping foundations work w/ hybrids; building the right org structures.
- 3:00 - Ideas and action. Summarize themes from the day, especially from small sessions. Identify follow up steps.
- 3:30 - Coffee. Media and outside observers arrive.
- 4:00 - Telling the hybrid story. Overview of hybrid concept, intro of each org and summary of day. Q+A from journalists.
- 5:00 - Wrap up and what's next
- 6:30 - Dinner hosted by Mozilla, Shiva Restaurant, Mtn View
Ground rules
- Be open and honest. Help others learn from you mistakes.
- Ask others for advice. These are people who know what it's like.
- Dig deep. Stay away from generic conversations and platitudes.
- Cone of silence / confidentiality until 330pm. No blogging.
Take aways and documentation
- Press coverage. We are inviting journalists for the last part of the day (330pm ->).
- Short videos of final presentations that synthesize key ideas and topics
- Write up of key ideas on Mozilla wiki and for wider sharing
- Follow up task list re: who is helping whom with what after the event?
Participant List
People we've invited (most of whom have confirmed) ...
- Alberto Ibarguen. Knight Foundation
- Austin Hill, Akoha
- Charles Best, Donors Choose
- Dave Geary, Endeavor
- Erik Moeller Wikimedia
- George Conrad, Grameen / MIFOS
- Greg Baldwin, Volunteer Match
- Jessica Flannery, Kiva.org
- Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange
- Jeff Weiner, Donors Choose
- Jim Fruchterman, Benetech
- Johnathan Greenblatt, UCLA
- John Lilly, Mozilla
- Laurie Racine, Racine Strategy / DotSub
- Liz Allen, Public Library of Science
- Mark Surman, Mozilla
- Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons
- Mitchell Baker, Mozilla
- Nancy Lublin, DoSomething.org
- Nicholas Reville, Miro / Participatory Culture Foundation
- Premal Shah, Kiva.org
- Reid Hoffman, Linked In
- Stephen DeBerry, Kapor Enterprises
- Tiffniy Cheng, Miro / Participatory Culture Foundation
- Vince Stehle, Surdna Foundation
... a few more invites are still pending.
Useful Links
eventually move this out of the agenda into another place
- Mark Surman's blog posts on hybrids:
- Recent Kevin Kelly piece
- Lawrence Lessig's response to Kevin Kelly
- What else?