Welcome to the home of a new breed of entrepreneurs who willingly and openly support one another on their business journey. It's a safe, caring and supportive place to test your ideas, get feedback and develop professionally.

A Jump Start

I have made a commitment to this collaborative community by closing my other blogs and seeding it with content. This is just a starting point as over time I hope to see more content from YOU, our members.

Many Voices

Many voices will give us a greater sense of the challenges, opportunities and issues we face developing our businesses.

My goal is that together we will discuss the issues and challenges related to business, collaboration and using platforms like this one to share, collaborate and learn from one another. Members are able to:

• Friend one another
• Post Status updates within the community
• Send private messages to friends within the community
• Write on a friends wire/wall)
• Create a blog
• Create a group (public, invitation only or private)
• Create and join forum(s)

I am actively researching plugins to extend collaborative functionality and opportunities. I invite you to join our fledgling community and lets see what we can build together!

Right now, I am not charging any fees to join and use the website. I want to remain as open as possible as long as possible so we can explore this concept and discover together where and how value is created. I am confident that a business model will appear at the right time.

In the meantime lets get on with it and support one another. Here are five principles I'd like to see us adopt and use to guide us on this journey.

Five Principles to Guide Our Journey & Community

1. Give more in value than you receive in payment.
2. Serve as many people as you can as well as you can.
3. Put other peoples interests first.
4. Give the gift of your authentic self.
5. Always be open to receiving.

The authors have done a terrific job marketing their book (be careful you'll want to buy the book if you watch the video). These are principles I think many entrepreneurs already understand and practice. My sense is that when they are applied together and in community an exponential effect takes place.

Are you with me? Join now.

Sincerely,

Greg Balanko-Dickson

P.S. Joining is easy and takes about 60 seconds.

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