Funny thing about confidence and the economic climate . . . and good to remember these days: The pendulum usually swings too far. When things are up, they seem more up than what they really are; and when things are down, they seem worse. Reality is somewhere in between. I like this reflection by Jeffrey [...]
Yes, you can start a company, regardless of financial crisis and a down stock market. Unless your business plan is based on profits on stocks going up, subprime mortgages or something similar, if you have something that people want to buy, then start whenever it’s best for you, not whenever the economy is best. Here [...]
Regardless of whether you are based in San Francisco, California or London, England, we all agree that recent months have been pretty unstable from an economic perspective. What should one do with all of the business uncertainty we now face? As these two articles by Alan Gleeson of Palo Alto Software Ltd, U.K. describe, it [...]
Noah Parsons shared this photo on his Lighting Out blog. He took it with his iPhone in the Apple store in San Francisco last weekend. Noah described it to me as “wall to wall people.” No recession showing there. Please don’t get me wrong: I’m not denying the very bad economy; it’s just that there [...]