Quoted for truth, and backed by experience more than once. :)

no point in getting 100 people, all you need is a few people, and it's done all the time as is, it's called partnership / joint venture...

partnership with 100 strangers will never work...

:1orglaugh

this has been brought up many a time on gfy but has never really gathered much steam.

My idea would be something along the lines of a forum like gfy but make a membership price , ( this cuts down on trolls , non-industry looky loo's and such )
Then make all decisions by voting , every member gets 1 vote, anything can be voted on as long as 10 other members second the motion.

People who don't abide by voted decisions are kicked out.

this is the type of idea that seems amazing if managed right, but in reality it has 1% chance to work.

you forgot the most important guys: content guys

I can make the processings

Sorry, I did mention that the first time.

I think you guys are right about the number of people involved.

Lets say we broke it down to the top 10 GFY members that have something to bring to the table.

Since we can do the billing, all 10 members of the partnership can have access to stats. We can also pay out net profits equally. Nobody will be on Salary.

Traffic guy make sure there is always new and fresh traffic to the site,
Designer always making sure site is updated and fresh
Content guys keeping content fresh (We may have to pay expenses to shoot content)
I already staff plenty of programmers
We need a good marketer that can brand us.
Hosting, we do our own in-house hosting so that's not a problem.

I think it's possible, but we would all have to commit 100% and do our share.

Well, it was just a thought and I wanted to hear some feedback on it.

I'm in. I have traffic, content, programming in house and I am one hell of a sexy bastard.

AfterShockMedia had started something like this before he passed away. :2 cents:

Not much happened, and a few people bailed right off the bat. We were waiting for him to leave hospital though. :(

Isn't this just starting a company?

plus when we hit the conventions (to celebrate our successes together) I will find everyone hot women. They tend to flock to me like pigeons around bread crumbs. It just happens.

I scanned through the thread don't think I saw this idea but if it was said sorry, but it would be cool if everyone who pitched in were doing it for a cause. Save AIDS, CANCER, CHILDREN that would be awesome!!!

We could start a poll on what charity and then everyone could come together kick some ass and if we raised enough money from sales we could put a good image on the Industry. Say we make a couple hundred thousands in a year or so, with the talent here that wouldn't be hard to do. It would be news worthy...

Just my :2 cents:... because I know peeps around here can move the fucking ground when it comes to helping people...and animals... :winkwink:

count me in for needed coding