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Vision, et al

We went at this backwards. We went after the technology first and then defining the purpose second. Our attitude has been, "Get the technology going and then we will figure out how to be managers and exactly what we are trying to do."
Hire a bunch of machinists, give them some drawings, raw materials, and machinery and start making stuff. Worry about how to run it, how to fund it, etc. later.

Step one, define our vision, mission province, and charter. If we had had this from the start, things might not have gone the way they have. STOP THE TRAIN and do this NOW!

Does it really matter, Come on, we all know what we are doing--
Vision -
1. Acme anvils will be the number one supplier of the highest quality anvils in the market place.
2. Acme anvils will be the lowest cost provider of anvils in the market place.

Both of these companies are supplying anvils. Both of these may result in a viable company, one is Snap On tools and the other is Harbor Freight. Two very different companies with different purchasing, storage and distribution strategies. Harbor Freight has warehouse style stores and advertises the latest discount, close out, use once and trash tools. Snap On has trucks that go from auto shop to shop taking orders and delivering tools.

Soylent News should be doing this exercise right now.
Vision - Soylent news will be the number one web news aggregator for technical members. Technologies such as (fill in here) will be covered.
Mission - To provide our members with the most timely news and a world class vehicle for the highest quality discussion.
Province - Soylent News is in the business of building a community of highly engaged technical members.
Charter - Technical news and members including (detail the technologies here)

Already you may think I'm going down the wrong path. (after all, no politics or law mentioned that might affect technology.) That is a good thing; no it's a GREAT thing. Before a single article is posted or server time purchased, we are already coming to agreement about just what we are going to do, who we serve and what service we are providing.

Notice also, it doesn't say anything about being in the software business. Right away that might tell you something about what kind of management we should have at the top.

We have all of our technical wonks and content and style wizards, editors and artists, (thank you, each and every one of you, for this excellent site!) who is at the top that is focused on the people? After all Soylent News is _people_. Specifically it is contributing members, not servers, OS's, CSS, or fill in the blank technology issue.

I understand that speed was an issue. Get this up asap while Beta was upsetting a lot of people and the slashcott was on, fine. But now is the time to make this course correction.