Who is Our New CEO

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I was just wondering because of all the talk and it was to be decided on 6/11. $150,000 is a a big salary to run this place.

Kaveman, did you trun in your plan and anyone else?
 


Heres the deal, was that thread started as a joke? yes, obviously, but it was based on a real problem. Jon wants a CEO for wicked fire and no one wants the job. I mean who in there right mind would hire someone who's 21 with no experience and smokes weed all day?? Well maybe him offering me this job was serious, maybe even as some sort of redemption for skimpin me hardcore earlier this year. To be fare he did say it was open to anyone so maybe he was thinking of putting it out there anyways and since the thread was there he put it in.

Anyways, for whatever reason he did seem completely serious about it and gave a week deadline for a business plan. Now I don't know what Jons definition of a business plan is but from what I learned in college and from talking to some business people, it should take more than a week to come up with one.

First off if someone is going to write a business plan they need to acually see the business as it is now from the inside. I, nor most other members here, know what Jon is planning, how far a long his ideas are, ANYTHING. Once you know how the current business runs and where it is headed without including things like mission statement, organizational charts of staff, name/logo(which is obviosly already done and branded), there is a lot of research and work need to put a plan together.

Talk about research, shit if im gunna write a business plan, i might just do research on the industry/market and the competition for a week or even more! after segmenting the market and finding a target(which i assume has been done), you need to develop all your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and any threats that might come you way. After know the market inside out then you gotta look at the external business/market environment, which in this case is huuuumungous, and decide what aspects of it are going to affect you most and then come up with a way to respond to these external forces.

Now once you know the market you can start taking a look at your product/pricing strategies/ect. Heres the part i think Jon needs the most. Of course the obvious avenue is advertisers, but with the users this place has and the demiener its going to be extremely hard to attract large scale advertisers. Even if it wasn't ads on the site can only go so far. This is were creativity has to kick in for long term plans and this part will take a long time if you want it done right for this project.

BlahBlah, enough talk about that shit, anyways as far as me doing this in an attempt to become CEO, eh. I would need more time, a look into the business now, and a signed agreement about not stealing my ideas/ me not stealing theres. Also would i want to be the CEO for years, hell no. I think it would be an awesome oppertunity and experience but i just dont see myself doing it long term, i got out of business and into AM for a reason you know. I would love to take the job on a 3-6 month trial persion were at the end either party could end the contract but I'm sure Jon is looking for someone who is 100% commited to the long term, but I dont know.

Anyways theres my spiel, prolly doesnt make any sense but whateva
 
Yeah business plan needs:

Opportunity > Concept > Product > Marketing Plan > Financial Plan > Exit Strategy....

And there's more where that came from. Base on that 60 page document you would write a 2 page executive summary that overviews the entire plan. I'm guessing a 2 page executive summary type document with general discussion for the main opportunities, growth, differentiation, etc... would suffice.

I keep seeing the KAVEMAN FOR CEO stuff in sigs but never knew what it was referring to and didn't really bother to figure it out. Oh well.
 
i could write a business plan in a week, but i don't want the job. it's not that hard though, and you really don't have to over think it like everyone says. This is the internet. if you have the right connections you can find the labor you need cheap.

Build all the fuckin components that are at the top of page. Charge businesses to post on the job board. Charge for tools (pull an eli... just hope they're as good). Take a small % of marketboard sales. See how other forums are making money?

Sure some people will have a piss fit with being charged, but they're poor and their opinion doesn't matter... but if you can provide value, people will come.
 
If he wanted a short consise executive summary then he shouldve said so. A real business plan does require you to "over think it like everyone says" I've written one before, it was long, consice, good, and took more than a week. Could i pull some monotization ideas together and write an E S in a week, hell yeah.
 
Kaveman - I think FEAR dominates your pathetic universe, causing you to make EXCUSES for not DOING something. or maybe you need to drink some WEED killer to oxygenate them' thar' braincells?

(ps) Why even bother to link to that half-assed, pissant blog you started and obviously immediately abandoned?
 
brianpaxton said:
Kaveman - I think FEAR dominates your pathetic universe, causing you to make EXCUSES for not DOING something. or maybe you need to drink some WEED killer to oxygenate them' thar' braincells?

(ps) Why even bother to link to that half-assed, pissant blog you started and obviously immediately abandoned?
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Its not fear, like i said in my post, although it would be a great opportunity/experience its not something i would want to do long term.

That blog is not abandoned, it just design for a specific purpose which i havent unfolded yet. I must be dumb for putting it in my sig and having it indexed in a day and ranking for terms already, i shouldnt have bothered though, since you know my plans for it.
 
I had actually been thinking of what a CEO would/could do for WF when the post first came out.

I think the CEO's main job would be to take all of jon's ideas and decide which ones were shit and which ones were worth paying to have developed, and then make fucking sure the job got done, so more people could enjoy a growing WF.

Putting together a bizplan for the spot shouldn't be that tricky. All you'd basically have to convey is that the direction of WF is growth upwards and outwards, and prove your theory with examples of other, more porpular (money-making) forums that have remained free to the main users.

There's a fucking ton, and they're not webmaster forums.

For what it's worth, I do think if the future CEO goes into the game with a solid goal in mind, and shows up with a pair of balls to make changes, there could be a lot of really cool changes here.


Just some thoughts.
 
barman said:
i could write a business plan in a week, but i don't want the job. it's not that hard though, and you really don't have to over think it like everyone says. This is the internet. if you have the right connections you can find the labor you need cheap.

Build all the fuckin components that are at the top of page. Charge businesses to post on the job board. Charge for tools (pull an eli... just hope they're as good). Take a small % of marketboard sales. See how other forums are making money?

Sure some people will have a piss fit with being charged, but they're poor and their opinion doesn't matter... but if you can provide value, people will come.
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barman, this an excellent post.
 
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