I saw the following note in the comments section of this blog yesterday:

Julie said…

Brian,

Thanks for another update. I am just the opposite of Mark. (Don’t get me wrong, I want AGLOCO to succeed and make all of lots of money.) But I feel like a founder of AGLOCO - this is a new experience for me.

I tell my friends about AGLOCO. They look it up and we chat about it. I send them to my blog - they sign up. It’s fun. AND I know that I am building a huge network inside AGLOCO. I agree with John Chow that now is the time to get as many referrals as you can. http://www.johnchow.com/3000-agloco-sign-ups

Once the Viewbar is released there will be tons of completion for referrals. While on one hand this will make it easier to recruit everybody, it will make it much harder to build a wide network. And if I get as wide a network as possible now, then when the post Viewbar frenzy occurs, all of my referrals will be able to make referrals much easier.

Look at Top Guns like John Chow 3,600 referrals or RZ McCall with over 12,000, (check here for more http://agloco-top-gun.spaces.live.com ), can you imagine how fast these networks will grow once people realize that AGLOCO really works. They will grow 10X in months (see McCall’s latest post to see his thoughts on the shape of his network http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!509.entry

Why would I want a couple of dollars a month for the next two months when the more time I have now the more time I have to build my network, before the fund. That is what being a founder is all about. You build before you get paid – but when you get paid, it is very big.

This is a true founder’s position – AND - I do not have to put up any money to participate.

So please AGLOCO, like AGLOCO Test says http://www.aglocotest.com , let me build out my network first, then start the frenzy.

Julie – bbbk0695

It got me to be thinking about how we have over 30,000 people around the world who are experiencing being a founder, many for the first time. They are the subset of Members who have ‘stuck their necks out’ and referred a friend to join AGLOCO. These Members know that being a founder can be fun and exciting. It can also be somewhat lonely.

As my wise grandfather would say, “The really world-changing ideas are going to get the most criticism, because people tend to be afraid of new, great ideas. If nobody is debating your idea, if you’re just getting pats on the back, you’re probably not doing anything special.”

We on the AGLOCO development team feel this way. And I can tell from reading comments on this blog (and some of the hundreds of email questions we receive each day), that many of you feel this way too. These comments and questions are the signs of a vibrant active pre-launch founders community, and they are all part of one bigger question: Is AGLOCO on the right track?

In other words, “Are you and I spending our time on a winning effort?”

I think the answer is a resounding YES. And this is even more true today than it was in November when we opened up the Membership website.

Why do I feel that way?

• We have over 30,000 founding Members who have already actively recruited others
• We have over 1,000,000 pages on the Internet talking about AGLOCO (per Google search)
• We have comments from Bill Gates (and now this week, YouTube Founder Chad Hurley) indicating that we are on the right track
• And we have you, probably the most active pre-launch community ever on the Internet. Who else could produce 1,000,000 pages in two months about a company that is still in pre-launch?

You are building a great community and you are the primary reason AGLOCO will win.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team

Interesting site of the day: http://usjulie.spaces.live.com/. Thanks to Julie for the inspiration