Collaborative and Crowd-Based Models

Named models built on distributed contribution, shared risk or communal ownership across many individuals rather than a single owner or a conventional employer-employee structure, including raising funds or ideas from a large group, member or worker ownership of the enterprise, short-term independent-contractor based work, peer-to-peer sharing of underused assets, and enterprises organized primarily around a social mission. Belongs here: any model whose defining act is distributed participation, ownership or mission across many independent contributors. Does not belong here: an ordinary employment or single-owner sales arrangement with no collaborative or crowd structure.