Entrepreneur in Residence
Guidelines Document
Candidates
- Alec Higgins - Agreement - [1]
- Torbjorn Ludvigsen
Positioning
The EIR program is the "home of open enterprise", and "home of distributive enterprise." When people work on Distributive Enterprise in general - they are called Distributive Enterpise Fellows - and they can be remote or on-site at the global headquarters of OSE - in which case they are called Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
EIRs develop a distributive enterprise every 6 months via a focused effort, at which point, new EIRs may be recruited for replication testing. If infrastructure for the EIR's program is lacking, such infrastructure may be built as part of the EIR program - consistent with our 'civilization under construction' approach. The infrastructure is used for further training purposes, such that the EIR receives an immersion, lifestyle investment experience that fosters responsibility and authenticity of their development. The first three months are in training, and infrastructure building, time-binding the previous EIR's learnings.
Values and Expectations
- Values and Goals. OSE expects that a candidate's values are aligned with the greater goal of OSE, as painted most broadly at the Roadmap page.
- Priorities and Sequencing. OSE expects that EIRs plug into the program of OSE, and that they apply only if their interests overlap with those of OSE. As such, EIRs are expected to piggyback on the current work of OSE which is enabled by OSE's infrastructure. This is also a strategic approach that allows startup costs to be lowered by using the infrastructure that already exists. EIRs who would like choose projects that are not current priorities or which are not on the Roadmap would be able to do so only if they have a compelling case for how their work strengthens the current priorities, sequencing, and overall roadmap of OSE.
- Financial Sustainability. The baseline expectation is that EIRs architect a program that brings financial breakeven within 3 months, with reference to all the startup costs incurred by the EIR and by OSE - and that a replicable revenue model is published after 6 months. This is feasible because of OSE's infrastructure and lean operation. This further asumes that the EIR is able to function in a lean environment.