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Hey fellas,
Just throwing this up here to seed it right now.
This won't apply to everyone on here yet. However, if you're not there yet, you could well qualify a little later on down the road, so don't feel too excluded if you wouldn't make the cut just yet.
I've been on and have run a variety of private / invitation-only networks over the years. The bigger ones are nice because they have people all over the world and you can do in-person events with 20-200 people plus meet up with high level folks when you travel about. High level invite-only forums are nice, because they allow you to get to know the guys in the forum more, and have a pretty high degree of confidence you're dealing with other high level guys, which can be pretty difficult to find on your own in day-to-day life.
Anyway, the main smaller biz forum I'm on is dying down after some of the members drifted away. I'm in the process of setting up a new one. I'd like to make this one a bit bigger with more members so we don't have the kind of crumbling devolution we saw in that one when it got too small and cloistered and just fell apart.
The target here is primarily somewhat older guys (35+) or the occasional young prodigy guy, but we're looking for folks who have successful careers and/or companies. We will have some monetization (likely a $75/mo due). However we want the focus to be on high level discussions. There's forums for newbies and forums for guys farther along; this one's for the latter.
We'll have boards for the discussion of:
For the more divisive topics, like politics or things that won't be everyone's cup of tea (pickup, mistresses, open/poly relationships, etc.), we want to do locked sub-boards that people can optionally join. So for instance:
That way guys who aren't PUAs can get on there and don't have to see pickup stuff if they don't want to. Guys who find mistresses morally objectionable don't have to see that. Guys who aren't into open/poly don't need to see that. Etc.
And with a thing like politics, you'd only be allowed to join one sub-board -- so you can be on mainstream, but not leftwing or rightwing; or you can be on leftwing, but not mainstream or rightwing; etc. We won't show who's on what board; the only people you'll know are on your board are the ones you see there. If you don't see someone there, he might be on one of the other boards, or he might not be on any of them.
I floated banning politics outright but guys were telling me it's such a part of people's identities these days, and I think they're right, that's probably better if we have it, just keep it segregated. Then the general politics board will just be for civil discourse and reasonable chats (and anyone violating that will simply not have access to the politics board for a while).
Probably we'll require everyone to list his main location, and have a travel itinerary function so guys can list where they're visiting and search for other members in places they're headed to to meet up with, or to plan their trips around places where they know they'll have contacts. That's always been a big one for me, selecting my travel destinations in part by asking myself "where do I know someone cool whom I haven't met in person yet in a city I have yet to visit?" -- it's a much more fun and efficient way to travel than just flying blind solo in a city where you know nothing and no one, IMO.
If we grow it big enough we'll likely do proper events at some point. With a previous social club I ran, we started doing those right away, but it was too much for me to manage, hosting a bunch of regular events plus running the thing plus I was running GC at the time. Even with a partner who was doing a lot of the organizing it was too much. I expect this forum to start out more geographically spread out, as opposed to a city-based social club (like that past venture was), so we won't have an events focus at first, but may do it later.
I think we have a fair number of fairly successful men in the GC audience. I have a few other networks I'll tap for this too.
As we grow, the focus will remain on admitting men who are both professionally/financially successful and romantically successful. We want to keep the discussion high level on both those categories so will do most of our screening around that.
Anyway, I doubt we'll have this set up until the end of the year; however, as we get closer, I may start to put together a waiting list and start doing some of the initial vetting of prospective members.
Just wanted to throw this out there now so folks who are interested can start mulling it over a bit.
It's in the planning stages, so I'm still open to other ideas too -- just nothing too complicated, I want to get this set up quick, not make it a mega project that takes ages.
Chase
Just throwing this up here to seed it right now.
This won't apply to everyone on here yet. However, if you're not there yet, you could well qualify a little later on down the road, so don't feel too excluded if you wouldn't make the cut just yet.
I've been on and have run a variety of private / invitation-only networks over the years. The bigger ones are nice because they have people all over the world and you can do in-person events with 20-200 people plus meet up with high level folks when you travel about. High level invite-only forums are nice, because they allow you to get to know the guys in the forum more, and have a pretty high degree of confidence you're dealing with other high level guys, which can be pretty difficult to find on your own in day-to-day life.
Anyway, the main smaller biz forum I'm on is dying down after some of the members drifted away. I'm in the process of setting up a new one. I'd like to make this one a bit bigger with more members so we don't have the kind of crumbling devolution we saw in that one when it got too small and cloistered and just fell apart.
The target here is primarily somewhat older guys (35+) or the occasional young prodigy guy, but we're looking for folks who have successful careers and/or companies. We will have some monetization (likely a $75/mo due). However we want the focus to be on high level discussions. There's forums for newbies and forums for guys farther along; this one's for the latter.
We'll have boards for the discussion of:
- Business
- Real estate
- Investing
- Lifestyle
- Travel
- Fashion
- Relationships
For the more divisive topics, like politics or things that won't be everyone's cup of tea (pickup, mistresses, open/poly relationships, etc.), we want to do locked sub-boards that people can optionally join. So for instance:
- Lifestyle
- Pickup [locked -- request access]
- Relationships (open to all members)
- Mistresses [locked -- request access]
- Open/Poly [locked -- request access]
- Politics (open to all members)
- History (open to all members)
- Mainstream [locked -- request access]
- Leftwing [locked -- request access]
- Rightwing [locked -- request access]
That way guys who aren't PUAs can get on there and don't have to see pickup stuff if they don't want to. Guys who find mistresses morally objectionable don't have to see that. Guys who aren't into open/poly don't need to see that. Etc.
And with a thing like politics, you'd only be allowed to join one sub-board -- so you can be on mainstream, but not leftwing or rightwing; or you can be on leftwing, but not mainstream or rightwing; etc. We won't show who's on what board; the only people you'll know are on your board are the ones you see there. If you don't see someone there, he might be on one of the other boards, or he might not be on any of them.
I floated banning politics outright but guys were telling me it's such a part of people's identities these days, and I think they're right, that's probably better if we have it, just keep it segregated. Then the general politics board will just be for civil discourse and reasonable chats (and anyone violating that will simply not have access to the politics board for a while).
Probably we'll require everyone to list his main location, and have a travel itinerary function so guys can list where they're visiting and search for other members in places they're headed to to meet up with, or to plan their trips around places where they know they'll have contacts. That's always been a big one for me, selecting my travel destinations in part by asking myself "where do I know someone cool whom I haven't met in person yet in a city I have yet to visit?" -- it's a much more fun and efficient way to travel than just flying blind solo in a city where you know nothing and no one, IMO.
If we grow it big enough we'll likely do proper events at some point. With a previous social club I ran, we started doing those right away, but it was too much for me to manage, hosting a bunch of regular events plus running the thing plus I was running GC at the time. Even with a partner who was doing a lot of the organizing it was too much. I expect this forum to start out more geographically spread out, as opposed to a city-based social club (like that past venture was), so we won't have an events focus at first, but may do it later.
I think we have a fair number of fairly successful men in the GC audience. I have a few other networks I'll tap for this too.
As we grow, the focus will remain on admitting men who are both professionally/financially successful and romantically successful. We want to keep the discussion high level on both those categories so will do most of our screening around that.
Anyway, I doubt we'll have this set up until the end of the year; however, as we get closer, I may start to put together a waiting list and start doing some of the initial vetting of prospective members.
Just wanted to throw this out there now so folks who are interested can start mulling it over a bit.
It's in the planning stages, so I'm still open to other ideas too -- just nothing too complicated, I want to get this set up quick, not make it a mega project that takes ages.
Chase
