****, I hope I’m right

There are times in business when you make a decision and just hope for the sake of everyone involved that you’re right. If you own a business, perhaps that roll of the dice came when you started your business. Perhaps it happens every day when you try to overallocate funds to your marketing and business development in order to grow aggressively and pursue your opportunities.

Today.. I felt like S. R. Hadden:

From the movie “Contact” based on the Carl Sagan book:

“First rule of government spending: Why build one when you can build two at twice the cost?”

If you’ve never seen the contact, check this out:

What I’ve done today will be public soon enough, and from conversations I’ve had over the past few months, it’s the kind of a gamble that many of you will have to make in order to thrive.

The world of B2B is changing.

Many IT Solution Providers have gone to “This will erode my margins” to “This has eroded my margins” to “That is not a business we are interested in.”

I only got one question: Why the hell not? Money is money, and I haven’t met a dollar I didn’t like. The moment you decide you’re too good to take people’s money is the moment your entrepreneurial life is over.