Re: The state of the web developing biz.

At 04:44 PM 5/28/2002 +0200, Thilo Muller wrote:


>1.Any business, big or small, must be able to adapt to it's environment.
>
>2.The element of flexibility


Both of these are excellent points.  I might add some additional 
ones.  Overhead is often a key element in a business' demise.  Thus, 
keeping overhead low is a key to both the ability to adapt and to 
flexibility.

However, frankly the one key element is the need to have "vision."  Vision 
is an illusive thing and is, in itself, hard to define.  It is the ability 
to see the gestalt of a "thing," in this instance, the scope of where the 
Net might be going, and then to position oneself and one's business 
appropriately.  While "this client," "this deal" etc. are important, the 
need for vision is about seeing beyond the immediate and being open to the 
future.

I've written extensively on these issues since they relate to 
entrepreneurship.  Oddly enough, while the Net has created many more 
opportunities to be an entrepreneur, the accompanying skills to actually be 
an entrepreneur have not followed.  Read on my site under the link 
"Articles About Being an Entrepreneur" the articles called "The Need for 
Vision," "What Business Are You In?," "Private Laws" and "Set to Fail."


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