http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/argentina-is-the-best-place-in-the-world/

Anyone notice the couple on Dragon’s Den (www.piehole.ie) who shrewdly live in Argentina for half of the year while they keep their costs down and run their successful young business from virtual offices.

On that subject, anyone sick of the Irish one-trick horses on Dragon’s Den, particularly Sarah Newman who further disgraced herself by offering an insulting €5k extra for a jump from 20% to 50% of the dynamic couple’s business. She showed herself to be either a brutally ignorant angel investor or blissfully unaware of the sound valuation of the existing cash-throwing business. Or perhaps the RTE version has less behind the scenes ‘working through the figures’. Whatever the reason, she ended up looking like a jaded corporate clueless executive and they ended up looking the smart ones. Wise up Sarah. One trick does not maketh the entrepreneur, no matter how big the trick.

Yes you may have begun to be disillusioned,but i’ve through contemplation and experience coming to realise,and i don’t ..you want to make a better world,be the best you can be,give love were y’can.Its that simple. Zietgiest and Venus are just concepts,there nothing without the participant,much as any institution or group etc you can think of in present society. So which would you rather,one that perpetuates the same bull over and again or one that offers the chance to simply drop this whole mess and EVOLVE,matter of fact for now(talking decades here) its already too late..generations ahead of us are already indebt likewise the whole fuckin world is gonna stay on this broken record.But!!! keep chisling away in your own little way,in your own time and eventually it has t’fall and BELIEVE it will

If you know about Fresco you’ll know he’s more than a thinker he’s a doer an engineer and a scientist at heart, and Zietgiest has extensively torn this beast apart to examine and learn from it,they do work as a match,one the theoretical the other the practical.

Its common sense and at the same time insanity why did politicians come about in the first place,their fucking useless!! they don’t know shit,and all along they’ve been allowed to regurgitate their garbage on society and have it there way,wasting time in their government buildings squabbling and bickering like kids in a school yard,on fat salaries

Evolve or die its that simple,our consciousness as a people and individuals has to evolve, once the seed is planted in enough consciousness and nutured to want and believe in change it’ll take time but has to happen naturally. Zietgiest can essentially be a reminder to stay the course and to help land mark progress, Venus has given us a blueprint to build from,and a fine one it is too.

Yes you may have begun to be disillusioned,but i’m through contemplation and experience coming to realise,and i don’t mind sharing this..you want to make a better world,be the best you can be,give love were y’can.Its that simple. Zietgiest and Venus are just concepts,there nothing without the participant,much as any institution or group etc you can think of in present society. So which would you rather,one that perpetuates the same bull over and again or offers the chance to simply drop this whole mess and EVOLVE,matter of fact its already too late..generations ahead of us are already indebt likewise the the whole fuckin world is gonna stay on this broken record.But!!! keep chisling away in your own little way,in your own time and eventually it has t’fall and BELIEVE it will

If you know about Fresco you’ll know he’s more than a thinker he’s a doer an engineer and a scientist at heart, and Zietgiest has extensively torn this beast apart to examine and learn from it,they do work as a match,one the theoretical the other the practical.

Its common sense and at the same time insanity why did politicians come about in the first place,their fucking useless!! they don’t know shit,and all along they’ve been allowed to regurgitate their garbage on society.

Evolve or die its that simple, once the seed is planted in enough consciousness and nutured to want and believe in changemit’ll take time but has to happen naturally.

Of course! Not, I must say, that there was never a time in my life that I also mouthed off about pride and so forth, and I have made bum decisions based on all sorts of superficial image- and pride-based nonsense that have come back to bite me, BUT this is the truth.

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the Enda Kenny route “From now on…I am going to be myself”.
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Salvation in simplicity.

Start by fixing the things you have control over. Life’s a snowball. In 2 years’ time, with constant plodding, you’ll have gone a LONG way. Just… plod!

OK, how about this, life’s a pool game. Or a soccer game with your mates. The guys who go for the long flamboyant pots lose over time to the “pot, safety, pot, safety” types. The go for gold types on the soccer pitch can’t win against two mates who pass to each other and work as a team.

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Take a crappy job to start with.
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It ain’t the cards you’re dealt, it’s how you play ‘em.

More stories : Old man Ambani who started India’s behemoth Reliance industries was selling pillows from the top of his head in the local market still at the age of thirty. but he kept going, and got the lucky breaks and pounced on them. Now, OBVIOUSLY I’m not saying sell pillows from the top of your head, but start somewhere. Take a step.

As a startup veteran, I can tell you that I earned pitiful pay (when not working for free) to get started. the breaks came, and I was prepared for them when they did. Success is mostly luck, but everyone is lucky. Once you start becoming opportunistic, you start seeing opportunity when others glaze over it.

Last piece of advice? Be humble and respectful. It gives you a base to move forward from always and keeps your eyes on the prize, which is earning your money.

I was delighted to see in today’s IT this article by Michael Hennigan.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0311/1224266044643.html

he not only reminds you all of the fact that there are vast numbers of people in Asia who are out to out-work and out-compete with you, he also opays tribute to the “boring” businesses I mentioned, like food, and education. check this out

“Research at Imperial College, London shows that real technology start-ups tend to grow slowly, have a poor survival rate and contribute little to the wider economy in economic terms. Compared to the US, European start-up performance is poor. In Europe, after seven operational years, these new firms on average comprise 18.5 employees with revenues of £250,000 and a mere 36 per cent likelihood of surviving beyond 10 years.

In the UK there are over 2,900 of these companies that have been in business since 1991, and they provide only 40,000 jobs. “They don’t become the new Microsoft,” Prof Bart Clarysse who holds the Chair in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College said last year . “They just stay micro.”

If we had 1,000 such firms here, they would provide 18,500 direct jobs if using the European metric, but over 10 years there would be many failures.”

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“For example, one New Zealand company controls more than one-third of global trade in dairy products, and is responsible for one in every four dollars of New Zealand’s export earnings. Also, we don’t even have a category for education in our service export data, but this same category is Australia’s third biggest export earner.

People in comfortable armchairs can talk easily about opening new markets, but most of them have never sold a bean.”

So, there. I’m all for a new google starting in Ireland, but there’s zero chance of that happening now, in emergency after 15 years of MNCs sharing their IP with us, when there was no end of investment opportunity and we are still ahead of the game.

If I want to start u outside the US, it CAN’T be in Ireland, it’s too expensive. Just forget about it. I employ people who are far harder working and better educated in technology than the average Irish grad for 5 euros a day. And they have every chance of making it to the top.

My business partner talked ot me about this, he said, look when we worked in ABC, the partners there earned a thousand times what we earned but we didn’t complain, we just wanted to be like them. Same with the employees we have in X country, they don’t begrudge their tiny salaries, they are looking to what they want to be.

BTW, Original Ed, I would really like to hear your definition of “weighty businesses” and “real jobs”.

“real jobs”… spoken like a true employee

it is all about persistence and blind faith in your abilities. i would also add that it’s precious little to do with the idea itself being special.

One of my friends gave me a small job to do while I was completely broke to help me stay alive, and I promised the moon and the stars. Yes, but, he said Can You Deliver?

talk about cutting through all the nonsense.

It has been my motto since, whenever I engage in flights of fancy.

BTW the self same wife whom I have fired also supported me financially to help me find my feet. Couldn’t have done it without her.