Open Sourcing the Start-up

So Kareem and I made a decision today to start blogging openly about how we are creating Education Revolution. We’re not going to blog everything because (a) that’s impossible and (b) that’s not prudent especially in terms of respecting other peoples’ privacy and the fiduciary responsbility we have to our (soon-to-be) investors. Having said that we’re looking forward to giving you a much more transparent look into what we’re doing that 99.9% of the companies. We have two reasons for doing this:

#1 - To teach. This is our unselfish reason. We want to give back to other entrepreneurs around us and those who will come after us. We’ve been inspired and educated by stuff like Ryan Carson’s blog posts on the 37Signals blog, books like Founders at Work and movies like Startup.com. We want to do our part to give back. To make it easier for future generations of entrepreneurs.

#2 - To get PR. This is our selfish reason. In the interest of transparency we have to tell you. After all, most people wouldn’t but you’d know anyway that it was one of our reasons and so why not be upfront? We’re launching a site in a bit and we’d love to build some buzz for it. We figure this is a good way to do it.

What to expect? Well this won’t be Justin.tv or anything. Although that would be cool… Instead we’re just hoping to pop on here as frequently as we can and share our world with you. Hopefully you’ll learn from both the things we do right and more importantly, the things we do wrong. We’ll share a bunch. You tell us what you want more of. It’s gonna be fun.

But first, a couple of ground rules:

1. We’re not going to share anything about anybody else without their permission. That’s important to us. And it’ll probably be a little challenging to achieve. But we’ll do our best. And on that note don’t be surprised if you get an e-mail from us asking if we can blog about any conversations with you on our site. Think of it as your way to give back to future generations of entrepreneurs! Or just tell us no…

2. We’re going to share a lot about our business but not everything and probably a little less in the early stages. Right now a lot of our business value is IP-related (in terms of the concept). Over time we’ll share more and more but right now we’ll have to keep that a bit under wraps. We’re sure you understand. We are looking to share a lot with you about other stuff we’re doing right now including fundraising, formation issues, hiring people, etc.

This is kind of exciting because I really know whether this is the start of something big or a huge mistake (or neither :)). Regardless, it should be a lot of fun. Stay tuned…

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