Economy is based on brains

October 19, 2008 in Education, Finance, Random, Start Up
Tags: Brain Economy, Coworking, Creativity, crisis, Economy, macroeconomics, microeconomics

Economy has been the great subject these past weeks. The financial crisis has made us start to think if the model we’ve been pursuing was the correct one or if we should change to another one from now on. Many answers have came out from diverse people, to the ones proposing a closed market to [...]

SWOT: What they told us

October 12, 2008 in Education, Finance, Start Up
Tags: Business, focus, Opportunities, Startups, Stenghts, SWOT, SWOTing, Web2.0

So continuing with my previous post about fear I will like to remember a bit of my junior classes at college about the SWOT analysis you have to do for your business or organization. I do a SWOT analysis for almost everything, I think I’ve interiorized the importance of the idea and i want to [...]

The only thing we have to fear it’s fear itself

October 11, 2008 in Finance, Web 2.0
Tags: Finance, Startups, Web 2.0

President Roosevelt said that phrase back in the 1930’s when the a big recession was happening. I just read this article on Mashable where Mark Hopkins quotes Steven Hodson saying that we still can get up, even if we don’t learn from our past mistakes in past recessions.
The truth is that economy isn’t perfect and [...]