Founding Startup Societies: A Step-By-Step Guide

Founding Startup Societies: A Step-by-Step Guide, by Mark Frazier and Joseph McKinney, is a practical guidebook designed to radically lower the barriers for launching Startup Society ventures. These societies are small areas that pioneer new approaches to governance, drawing lessons from global examples such as Shenzhen, Dubai, and Singapore.

The book lays out twenty clear steps that take readers from the initial idea to managing a fully functioning city. Along the way, it introduces best practices that make Startup Societies unique: building consortiums, running competitions, sharing benefits with local communities, leading with a gift, and scaling gradually from small prototypes to larger, sustainable communities.

Grounded in fifty years of research and fieldwork across more than fifty countries, the guide provides both inspiration and actionable strategies. It is an essential starting point for entrepreneurs who want to apply innovative policies to revitalize rural and urban neighborhoods—or even create entirely new communities.