Success Manifesto

Sheena and I are exploring the idea of extending the Extreme Entrepreneurship brand by digitally publishing youth who embody the principles of Extreme Entrepreneurship and who are experts on specific topics that have a wide appeal to high school and college students.

Who is the Extreme Entrepreneur Author?
eBooks are evolving communities of ideas based on intimate, real-time author-reader and reader-reader relationships. Taking advantage of low variable costs and quick time to market, each work will be an evolution of ideas rather than a static piece of work that is published once. Centuries ago, books were often created as responses to other books. As such, the original ideas that the original authors created were evolved. Extreme Entrepreneur Authors and readers work in tandem to create an evolving body of empowering ideas targeted at youth.

The Extreme Entrepreneur Authors are responsible for:

1. Creating empowering ideas and spreading them through ebooklets, which are shortened (15-50 pg) version of ebooks that cover topics related to Extreme Entrepreneurship such as:
   
   
   
   • Starting and Running a Business
     
   • Investing
     
   • Buying Real Estate
     
   • Winning Scholarships, Awards, and Competitions
   • Leveraging School
     
   • Going to Seminars and Conferences
   • Taking Time Off
     
   • Strategic Volunteering
     
   • Traveling
     
   • Shadowing
     
   • Informational Interviewing
     
   
   
2. Moderating a discussion board related to their book.
   
3. Maintaining a blog with updates on their own life.
   
4. Updating their ebooklets.

Extreme Entrepreneur Author Compensation
Authors will receive:

1. Percent of overall ebooklet revenue - similar to About.com Guide model (not definite).
   
2. Percent of revenues of their book.
   

Submissions
Submissions from authors will be taken on an ongoing basis. However, there will be a yearly EE Author Competition that recognizes the best EE Authors (not definite). Top authors may be selected to have their work become part of the "Extreme Entrepreneur" series.

Thoughts?