[ex_amazon_sde]

Private companies and banks see coops as the devil [for very obvious reasons] and fight them using regulatory capture and not engaging in business with them. It's pretty well-known in the coop world.

Coops sometimes mitigate this disadvantages by networking with each other.

[gruez]

>fight them using regulatory capture and refusing to engage in business with them

Can you provide concrete examples?

[sitkack]

Same with credit unions. In fact if I were a coop going for a loan, I'd first to go a credit union.

[cuteboy19]

Bold claim but i don't think there are enough budding coops to even bother with such behaviour.

Regulatory capture hurts all new startups and is unlikely to be aimed specifically at coops

[uoaei]

Coops and startups are in different categories. It doesn't make sense to lump them in to the same group here, though I understand we are on a very techie-oriented forum.

[zasdffaa]

you have a few examples of this?