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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 18:37:00 JST Aral Balkan

   • Laura Kalbag

   One day, folks will learn that you can’t fund initiatives like this:

   https://opencollective.com

   With this:

   https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/investors

   That day is not today:

   https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

   Via @laura

   #openCollective #VC #ventureCapital #funding

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 18:50:38 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @aral Did they share funding? The blog post says they don't know why OCF is dissolving

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 19:58:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Martin Dougiamas
     • Laura Kalbag

     @martin @laura I don’t know. I usually find that if things are overly complicated someone usually has a vested interest in that complexity and it’s usually not a good sign.

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     Martin Dougiamas (martin@openedtech.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 19:58:15 JST Martin Dougiamas

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     • Laura Kalbag

     @aral @laura Apart from the premise... were the funders on that page related to the non-profit organisation that's folding actually, it's not really clear - what an extremely confusing organisation … 🤯