It’s true, we’re out of stealth mode and officially out of the box!

For those of you who have been reading, you may have wondered a little more about what was going on behind the scenes. Some of you may have thought I was a one-girl band running from city-to-city as part of our 50 city, face-to-face grassroots effort. And while I’ve used this blog to share some of the output of that grass-roots effort, it hasn’t just been me.  Much  more has been going on.

As I write this, the news is just hitting the wire but here are some of the articles I’ve found. I’ll add more as they are posted.

Here’s what I’ve found so far:

Let’s talk about sex…and startups

Blackbox Republic is creating a social network around sex (positivity)

Blackbox Republic, Led by Ex-Jive Exec, Gets Seed Funding for Sex-Positive Social Network

Venture Chronicles

Blackbox Republic Reinvents Social Networking, Online Dating and eCommerce, Sets to Launch New Destination for the Sex-Positive Movement (our release)

We’re in alpha and breathing down the neck of Beta.

Some folks have asked us about the timing of all of this. Right now we’re focused on our Founding Members. If you think you’d like to be one, we’d love it. All you have to do is go to  www.blackboxrepublic.com/founders and sign up.  We’re looking for right-brained, sex-positive, cool people who want to be part of the community.  If this is you, welcome home!

Once our Founding Members have advised us and helped populate things, we’ll be reaching out to a little wider group. Expect invitations to be available near the end of the summer.

Blackbox Republic is made up of 15 rockstar people.

I couldn’t be happier with the amazing team we have in place. If you haven’t checked out our new home page, please do. And be sure to check out the folks at the bottom. They are amazing people. We all fill in where needed, as with any startup, but my main role is VP of Community Relations.  That means, I’m 100% focused on our community, helping to build, add value, listen, be accessible, and do whatever is needed for our members. The other founder is Sam Lawrence who also wears many hats in addition to being CEO (yes, he’s even been the person behind the camera for all my blog posts!).  Sam comes from the social software world where he was most recently CMO at Jive Software.  Tonight he put up a great post about some of the Blackbox Republic back-story. Be sure to check it out.

This is an exciting and scary road we’re on.  We want your continued feedback and input.  As your community advocate, I’ll always be here to help with introductions and questions along the way.  Now that we’re out of the box, I can’t wait for the next phase where I can invite you in.