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By on August 14, 2009 in Business Resources

Call it what you want but I’ve had Bloggers Block recently. Thus, I have not been motivated to write much lately and have really been interacting in the real-time web more and more. I think this is partly because I’ve been reconsidering who I really want to write for and how I will really want to help my audience. While I am restructuring and rethinking, I do know that I want to focus more on helping entrepreneurs and small businesses. Partly because as my own Chief Everything Officer, I know how difficult it is for small business owners to advance their companies to the next level.

Thanks to Dave Winer I felt like, “ok let’s use his idea as a motivator to get the blog back on track”.  Dave has also helped me uncover and clarify some of the thinking I’ve been doing – how to better help entrepreneurs and small businesses succeed.  By starting this discussion on building sustainable user-oriented businesses it deepened my interest and passion for trying to build a community that supports the interests of entrepreneurs and their customers, who ultimately make companies valuable together.

As an entrepreneur still on his journey, I’m still trying to answer my QUESTion.  I’m also learning what the street teaches me everyday and I’m trying to learn as much as possible from others that have 1st hand knowledge and experience as well as thought leaders like Seth Godin, Chris Anderson and Mark Magnacca.

It’s tough being an entrepreneur! At times you’re on top of the world and others you’re digging out of 50 Foot holes. But, I surmise it is very rewarding once you’ve reached the peak of your own mountain.  Yet, trying to make it I am still (sounds like Yoda). You can’t give up though!

At the same time, there are many of us out there and we have to help each other. I believe I have a lot to offer by teaching others in their QUEST for success and I know I can certainly learn from others.

Something else though that is really important is the need to remain ethical and focused on your customers needs and staying true to their value while building your company. So, I’ve set-up a group on FriendFeed called Argo User Ventures.  Argo was the ship that Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece .  Pretty fitting name and I have Simon Edhouse to thank for that.

Come join us in this journey and let’s see what we can discover and do together!

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  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    I got the chance to read up on some pretty radical social business concepts (Simon linked his ideas). But more than the concept of sustainable community driven businesses, are the people involved it it's architecture. I trust that you'll navigate a direction for Argo Ventures that leverages our most powerful assets towards defining a challenge, and collaborating on a solution.
    While many ideas are bouncing around within the friendfeed space, there are few plans of action. What can we do to differentiate our efforts and begin building milestones? Is a corporate framework a good start? That's where myself, Vladimir Vukicevic, Brian Hendrickson, and Ryan Leland are headed with the contextual advertising and personalized search model.

    By focusing on short term achievable goals we can increase the probability of successful growth.

  • http://SocialMediaAndInteractiveMarketingBlog Jason Cronkhite

    Mark, I agree. Action is everything and I too believe getting a corporate structure in place may be/should be one of the 1st milestones. I invited Charles Armstrong of Trampoline Systems out of the UK to the group so that he could share his experiences with how he crowdsourced a funding round. I'm not clear on what would be the best structure (a holding company trust, LLC membership, C-corp etc.).

    Let's talk more specifically about some other milestones and also find some financial SME's (subject matter experts). It would be great to have a fund/entity developed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. I think Dave Winer has some insight into these things as well as Simon but, I also know that Dave and Simon are not finance guys (no offense to them). Yet, I'm sure they have folks in their trusted circle of friends like we all do.

    What do Vlad, Brian and Ryan think? How are things coming along with the project? Let me know when you think I can add value to the project.

    Cheers,

    Jason