Mark Frazier is the author of Founding Startup Societies A Step by Step Guide as well as the Chairman of the Startup Societies Foundation and president of Openworld, nonprofit research groups specializing in land value appreciation as a means of privately funding public goods. He has worked in 50+ countries over the past three decades on free economic zones and market-based learning initiatives in projects funded by private philanthropists, the World Bank, and multinational companies. His current projects include promotion of intentional communities that vest residents as beneficiaries of rising property values. Earlier in his career, he was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's research and consulting practice on alternative approaches to local service delivery. Mark is a graduate of Harvard University, and a former Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute in New York.