I typed this up in order to collect my thoughts, in hopes of eventually showing them to my coworkers. I am totally open to questions, comments, and suggestions, especially from YC readers.
Although I am very interested to read your comments, I feel that it is disingenuous to put your name on a 'secret' blog. If you want to have a secret blog, make it secret. If you want to be open and honest with your co-workers, be open and honest w/ them. Half way in between strikes me as more likely to hurt than heal.
Unless what you are trying to do is get at your co-workers, in which case I think you will succeed.
Your point is well taken. It wasn't my "secret" blog, really, until I typed this particular post. I had not revealed its existence to any of my coworkers, but as you will notice, none of the other posts are particularly charged as regards business or business politics.
I do want to be open and honest with my coworkers, and I've already had one (one of the designers) have a look at what I wrote. I am going to present the ideas contained therein, to the group, ASAP--it's a matter of finding time to meet and talk about "serious stuff". I was hoping to get some feedback from YC readers because I trust their opinion and ability to perceive when someone has gone off the deep end as regards ideas, reasoning, etc. In other words, I'm hoping that if I'm smoking crack, or if all startups are this way, someone will tell me before I unveil it to my coworkers at large.
I am certainly not trying to get at my coworkers. The stuff at the top is in case it's discovered by a certain coworker who i would rather heard it from me, not the blog. He's been known to read YC news once in a while, thus the precaution.
I appreciate the frank dissection of your startup part way through. Just a quick question, you had some guy do several months work for you and you didn't pay him anything?
I should probably have been more clear about this--no one has ever received any type of salary. Our media production side of things has generated some money (unrelated to the startup) and that has allowed for us to be paid a little (i.e. $500 a month) here and there.
