What is the next step?

Is the business model the next step?  Or is it the team?

I think it’s the team.

The internet is amazing at bringing people together.  Thanks to the Internet, I have now talked with a guy in Indiana who is interested in the idea of producing good, clean media.  There is another person in Utah who would like to be involved in contributing to a company that creates media that teaches gospel principles.  A lady, I don’t know from where, has expressed her interest.  I’m hoping to talk to a man from Ohio, and another from California.

Someone in New Zealand told me that he might have a script I’d be interested in.  That opportunity has been revoked, but it still amazes me that it happened.  Another person in Egypty loved my ideas.  He happens to be looking for financing for his own projects right now, but perhaps sometime we can collaborate.

I talked with somebody else who had tried to create clean and safe media but was unable to come up with a good business model.

Is there a way to effectively create a successful company where management is located in different parts of the world, meeting only by phone and email?

I know we need a good business model.  I don’t want to follow the traditional route of finding a million (or $10 million) in financing.  I want to grow the business with cash flow start off profitable the first year. 

I know that sounds impossible, but it’s not.  It’s been done before with at least one business I know of.  A key is to have customers right from the start.  Have the customers pay you to develop the first products, and build from there.

So I’ve got to work on the revenue model.  But I think it’s also important to be building the team.  And perhaps if I bring the right people on board at first, then together we’ll come up with an even better business model than if I worked on how to earn the money first.