Comments on: Money or Efficiency? Know Where to Place Your Focus

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:49:56 +0000

“If you know how to handle your business using the strategies that you have, there will be no problem at all. You just need to continue what you’re doing and make sure that you can solve every problem that come on your way.”

Completely agree.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:56:14 +0000

Plot all your strategies. Within the process, you can eliminate those strategies that aren’t suited to achieve your goal. In this way, you can really make sure that your doing the right thing.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:51:29 +0000

@ Jay

If you know how to handle your business using the strategies that you have, there will be now problem at all. You just need to continue what you’re doing and make sure that you can solve every problem that come on your way.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:52:10 +0000

The fact of the matter is efficiency and sustainability are at the core of the existence of any successful business or venture. If product or service delivery are not efficiently delivered then the business or venture will eventually reach about where it is no longer sustainable. That’s just the fact of the matter.

By: Peter Colledge

Peter Colledge — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:39:57 +0000

Hi Chris,
Just for a laugh I typed in the motto of my old school and your blog appeared. I was there from 1958 to 1965. I see you have real website talent. Mr Martin (?) would have been proud of you! All the best.

By: James

James — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:48:57 +0000

I think we are all in it to make money in some way even the free service providers out there. But remember you get what you pay for. And there is no way that Twitter is dying cause it is running a loss. Most businesses that offer free service will invariably run into a loss in the beginning. But, once the revenue strategies kick in, I am pretty sure they will make money and lots of it.

By: loneBrain ( A.G.)

loneBrain ( A.G.) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:57:54 +0000

Now to get to the point: Nature laws. The humanity has been always fought against the nature. By fire and sword. We`re about to destroy our world like bunch of worms who feed from a single apple, then grow and multiply. But the apple remains the same size. At the end the natural laws say: all worms die in horrible death. (The strongest remain last).
Who can limit the growth of the humanity to prevent the horrible end ?
I can still hear the people who are proud of how many children they have made.

By: Smart Syndrome

Smart Syndrome — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:17:34 +0000

[...] telling them how smart they are: so used to it that they start believing it. You get guys like this f**king nutbag who seriously believes that because he made Thesis (which isn’t even a good theme: it’s [...]

By: Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:57:05 +0000

The fact that you consider going to the moon as an economic activity makes me doubt about your reasoning. Sometimes things are done for reasons other than money. For example: political reasons, scientific reasons. vanity, glory… Man does not live by bread alone.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:22:01 +0000

Chris,

I agree with your main thrust about efficiency and sustainability being key components of a long term business.

But Twitter is not a long term business; it may survive and morph into something else. It is not unreasonable for the owners not to have a long term plan. It takes much different skills to run a 100 person or 10,000 person business from a startup business.

Like the Man of the Moon, any large scale enterprise has beneficial unintended consequences. I look at Twitter like I look at theoretical research: it may be inefficient but if there are enough experiments like this then greater good will result.

What your analysis misses is a measure of effectiveness. When in startup and growth mode then effectiveness is what counts; thereafter is all about making your business efficient in order to maximise the return on investment.

I don;t mind Twitter’s business model at all, what I really dislike is large, inefficient government subsidized businesses with lousy service. (let’s start with banking)

PS
What are your thoughts on the FairTax? Scores high on efficiency, collectability, avoidability and simplicity