I read your plan, you thought it over quite well!
I'm not sure if it is wise to start this on a smaller scale and find out if it really works.
You know:
"Think big, start small, scale fast"

Thanks for reading throug. I wrote this in my job in our "boring offline computer" just a day after I found Cambrian house website. I got realy exited about it so I realised just after, that I cannot fit my file into the required window :-) I will try to keep it shorter next time for everybodies convenience.
This thing is way out of the reach of my abilities, but that's what crowdsourcing is good for, no?
The good part of this business is that it can be completly build by online community, thus realy suitable for crowdsourcing.
Once the soft is build I would like to start running a mag (or few) myself to lift it off the floor and make the product some promotion .(aka start small :-)))
HOWEVER!!! The programing, oh dear, the programing!!! That's realy not my bread and butter!
I realy believe in this thing, so if I aquire some money on some other project I will invest in thisone.
What do you think by "start small"? Apart of cutting the VOIP service off first :)

So, it is a wiki / zine / web host?

Its nice that you took the time to actually make a small business plan.

Yeah kind of wiki zine hosting, but with your zine printed.
The idea is to make the cheapest of our products (some basic form of cheap leaflet formate) freely available. The same way blogging and wiki hosting is! There have to be a global community increasingly growing in numbers to create significant revenue, as I think this is expensive to build and maintain.

B to B for word smiths. Okay. One criticisim. I just don't see why everything has to be Wiki these days. Wikipedia itself has a suspect reputation; it can be self-correcting but only IF somebody corrects it. I would just go with a .com

I don't know, develop it both ways before launching. And research competing ideas.

ditto

Ease of use and Wiki are not something I typically link together. I've seen similar things like this done with PBwiki, but not quite as focused as your draft business plan states.

It would be interesting to see what you can do with this idea. A sort of wiki version of blogger. Here is a slogan: NewsWiki - 100% Truthiness.

Thanks for linking to this on my idea. Its great to see we are thinking on a similar wavelength. If I'm reading this right your idea is to host several small zines that people can create independently or in small groups. Mine on the other hand is to create 1 large zine that people collaborate on.

We definitely could work together on this as there is quite a bit of overlap.
send me a message later and we can work out some arrangements.

http://www.cambrianh...er/ideas-id/W3nDeb3/

OK I had some ideas last week reading around the cambrian house.
So this is my idea a bit revisited. It is also much closer to what I was imaginig originally and closer to the ground. Probably this project could be started by just using existing platforms or writing some small plug-ins.

The idea as I posted earlier Here it is : http://docs.google.c...=dg4q739r_15c3qpb5hq ,can be still accomplished later, if founds will be created first.

What about making a magazine about business,crowsourcing and WEB 2.0 first!

This is how it works
We create a site where you (author) can upload articles about:
-WEB 2.0 (Whatever you think it is :-)
-Talking about particular applications, websites and their use
-Practical tutorials to sites and software
-Introductions to perticular themes
-Success stories (succesfull CH businesses can write about their story and make people more aware about how to really start the project)
-Articles from advanced users like companies and NGOs can be allowed
-Organizations or governmental departments can make themselves more visible posting their articles.
-So can the companies who wants to propagate their products or services
-It can be about google !!! Many people outthere still don't know about advanced abilities of traditional sites like Yahoo, Facebook and so on
-Business advice for particular people in their area (taxing etc.)

"I am using one spanish-english course (a course for spanish people learning english) to learn spanish right now:-0. Its a siple sheet of paper distributed 3 times weekly in spanish "El Mundo" newspaper (and some others) The layout of first site, cought my eye:
Low beginner / High beginner /Low intermediate/ Middle intermediate/ High Intermadiate /Low advanced/ Middle advanced / For english superstars only ... in our case something like "For braincoded supergeeks only !"
A Voting system based on similar clasification of articles could be implemented.

The author keeps track of his buyers an his articles distribution in printed media

All Articles are on-line readable for publishers (printhouses with accounts), and available in PDF.
Articles are copyrighted. Every with its price for distribution in printed media.
System of pricing and shares will have to be developed.

Once the articles are online. Account registered printing house will come as a buyer. He can choose from different articles and buy them (together with rights to print and distribute them in particular geographical area).Google maps can be used to create a map of areas. Every article will get its own page with list of available distribution areas, translations etc.
A vibrant community could be developed in such server to help writing for money and publish easy.

-Printing house is paying a subscription fee
-You could also sell some reading (to subscribers), as articles are not available to public.

Anybody got an idea on some existing platforms where this could be started without great investment ?

Interesting... So you'll have the site for print houses and print media as well as amateurs. I know Wall street journal has that on a limited scale, however, you have to pay for the amateur correspondents. :( This seems very interesting. I know Digg has it where the articles you don't necessarily know their origin. Amateur or pro.