Posted on February 26, 2009 by bethesdafrog
behind every winning strategy lies a killer app, a competitive edge, a “super gun” so to speak. it turns out that even elizabeth i’s navy had such a “super gun”, literally, when defeating the spanish armada, see here. elizabeth i’s navy’s super guns did prompt me to think about what are obama’s super [...]
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Posted on December 8, 2008 by bethesdafrog
remember that everything has a silver lining, even in a recession. here is a non-exhaustive list of positives you should have in mind when creating or running a startup in a recession:
1) low cost always wins – as a startup you have no or little fixed cost, no or little legacy infrastructure, that’s an [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by bethesdafrog
a bailout plan was necessary. just not the one we got from the bush administration. too much emphasis was put on protecting some princes of wall street and making others pay – both were mistakes. no key initiative – as the ones gordon brown implemented in the uk – were put in place [...]
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