OSE EIR Basic Financial Model

Established EIR Program

• Candidate applies to OSE, proposing a detailed Enterprise and operations brief that includes workflows, operations time requirements, and revenue projections. Candidate uses Distributive Enterprise Brief Template Template.
• After acceptance, EIR runs an established Enterprise, while creating a new Enterprise.
• EIR is an immersion education program, consistent with OSE's education and public service mission.
• EIR develops know-how for the benefit of all humankind, while testing the validity of the model under development by testing the actual enterprise and providing data on its outcomes.
• Established Enterprise funds the EIR and their R&D program.
• EIR receives a decided-upon stipend for living expenses, and spends any remaining revenue on development of a new Enterprise.
• OSE provides a living and working infrastructure, the existing EIR opportunity for bootstrap funding, priority access to knowhow, access to summer interns, marketing capacity, and guidance on the project.
• EIR provides their labor, organizational effort for producing weekly SME webinars, and R&D effort on open source product development.
• OSE keeps the infrastructure that is created in order to continue the operation in the future.
• 50/50 net revenue share occurs after all expenses including agreed-upon stipend. This is fair because (1) it motivates the EIR to lean efficiency, (2) stipend covers the EIR cost of living, (3) OSE is investing significant time into the effort, and EIR is welcome to invest as much of the revenue into efficient production as is needed to make the operation efficient.

• EIR gains access to propagation of genetic material, and can build their own equipment base from