Comments on: You’ve Been Disrupted, So What’s Next? http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/top-blog-posts/kinetic-vs-static/youve-been-disrupted-so-whats-next/ Boutique Digital Strategy in New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ZAC http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/top-blog-posts/kinetic-vs-static/youve-been-disrupted-so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-2717 ZAC Thu, 20 May 2010 15:58:39 +0000 http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/?p=1631#comment-2717 thanks cassel, you are right on when it comes to building sustainable profit models, and moving away from leveraging today's discrepancies at the expense of tomorrow's civilties thanks cassel, you are right on when it comes to building sustainable profit models, and moving away from leveraging today’s discrepancies at the expense of tomorrow’s civilties

]]> By: cass shaps http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/top-blog-posts/kinetic-vs-static/youve-been-disrupted-so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-2716 cass shaps Thu, 20 May 2010 15:55:44 +0000 http://www.zacharyadamcohen.com/?p=1631#comment-2716 Great day in American Capitalism today. Markets are at the points they hit in the Flash Market 1.0 scare of last week. Frankly, I'm buying twinkies. From a calories/dollar perspective, they offer the most bang for your buck of any swallowable asset. I'd buy gold but if stuff gets really ugly I want to be able to eat my assets. We'll really be screwed if the consumerism movement dries up, but otherwise the world will move on from all of this. And yes this is a fantastic time to be in business. Anytime the world is disrupted and things change, there's a chance to be the first to figure out how to play it, and capitalizing on being a first mover is one hustle that will never end, as long as things keep moving. BTW I think a lot bout how to fix the world, and when I come up with something good I tell my rich friends and they set the plans into action (jewlluminati, rich and secretive and connected). Government juices economies by spending more than they take in, more cheap money on the top of the balance sheet means more free cash flow to equity. This can't be sustained. Too many people would rather get rich today at the expense of some other shmuck tomorrow, short term gain trumping long term gain in the psyche, but in the end I think either by force or by pleasure we will see governments spend within their means, and only step outside of that when capital improvements can really be shown to have an ROI; and that's a sustainable model for long term prosperity. Anyway, to your posting, I did a lot of venture turn around consulting in the past. I like the space because you can see someone has a great idea, a real value proposition, and they are basically still early enough in the game that you can set them on a good course to monetizing it fully, before there are so many entrenched players and the business is stuck adjusting in tiny steps, rather than in big swaths on a blank canvas. Great work, good fun, amazing opportunity to exact value. Such a dynamic, interrelated, matrix-of-matrices sort of consulting engagements. What is the point of my rambling? It's a brave new world, get a lot of opinions, take a clean slate approach to it, come up with the best / most efficient ideas, then step back and figure out if its possible to get there from where you are, what with your entrenched vendors, locale, employees, etc. Get creative, be very very active. My dad says be the best damn ditch digger (thanks dad for implying I'm too stupid for anything but manual labor). Great day in American Capitalism today. Markets are at the points they hit in the Flash Market 1.0 scare of last week. Frankly, I’m buying twinkies. From a calories/dollar perspective, they offer the most bang for your buck of any swallowable asset. I’d buy gold but if stuff gets really ugly I want to be able to eat my assets.

We’ll really be screwed if the consumerism movement dries up, but otherwise the world will move on from all of this. And yes this is a fantastic time to be in business. Anytime the world is disrupted and things change, there’s a chance to be the first to figure out how to play it, and capitalizing on being a first mover is one hustle that will never end, as long as things keep moving.

BTW I think a lot bout how to fix the world, and when I come up with something good I tell my rich friends and they set the plans into action (jewlluminati, rich and secretive and connected). Government juices economies by spending more than they take in, more cheap money on the top of the balance sheet means more free cash flow to equity. This can’t be sustained. Too many people would rather get rich today at the expense of some other shmuck tomorrow, short term gain trumping long term gain in the psyche, but in the end I think either by force or by pleasure we will see governments spend within their means, and only step outside of that when capital improvements can really be shown to have an ROI; and that’s a sustainable model for long term prosperity.

Anyway, to your posting, I did a lot of venture turn around consulting in the past. I like the space because you can see someone has a great idea, a real value proposition, and they are basically still early enough in the game that you can set them on a good course to monetizing it fully, before there are so many entrenched players and the business is stuck adjusting in tiny steps, rather than in big swaths on a blank canvas. Great work, good fun, amazing opportunity to exact value. Such a dynamic, interrelated, matrix-of-matrices sort of consulting engagements.

What is the point of my rambling? It’s a brave new world, get a lot of opinions, take a clean slate approach to it, come up with the best / most efficient ideas, then step back and figure out if its possible to get there from where you are, what with your entrenched vendors, locale, employees, etc. Get creative, be very very active. My dad says be the best damn ditch digger (thanks dad for implying I’m too stupid for anything but manual labor).

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