A while ago, I posted a piece about my next book, which remains a little ways ff while Robert and I focus on Naked Conversations. I plan to write about startup companies, looking at what characteristics have remained the same and what have changed with the times.
I developed the though a little further. I'd like to find 12 start up companies and develop their stories, and through them, tell what I've learned over my career working with them.
One company I most certainly will cover will be Riya. There's is already an interesting saga, and by 2007 when I hope to complete my next book, I think a great deal will happen worth writing about.
That leaves 11 open slots. I'd like to have companies that are from all over the world, some of whom are not in technology. They do not have to still be startups today. One or two could even be large or even public. But their story of getting started needs to be truly compelling, and t needs to contain points of value to people who are thinking of starting, or will have recently started, their own companies.
I definitely want to speak to people who were part f a spectacular failure. I'd like to talk to them about the lessons learned and what happened in their lives after it was all over.
Like Naked Conversations, this book will be written transparently, in collaboration with the blogosphere, starting now. If I can figure out a way to use blogging to make the book even more transparent than Naked has been, then I will do so. Maye I'll profile 25 companies and have you vote on who should go into the book and why.
If you know of a company that I should investigated for this new book, please let me know now. I plan to write a proposal in February and start writing in March.
