Business

I get the feeling that people have been taking school a little too seriously lately. Pretty much every American that you meet these days thinks that their job and money are related, when in reality the 2 are quite different.

It is a common misconception that most businesses fail because of bad decisions and making mistakes. People think that lack of experience or even lack of a quality product is why businesses fail. This simply is not true. Every business has gone through problems, difficulties and even complete disasters, but you don't ever fail until you say you do.

Value is usually the underlying substance behind most things good. Pretty much any good business has some type of value they offer to the consumer. For instance, Amazon's value is their easy to user online store that offers pretty much anything. Google's value is their quick, relevant search engine. YouTube's value is their huge library of videos. Each of these companies offer some type of value that is helpful and useful to the user.

I have looked into the issue of America's economic stability for a few years and all the rich, educated people all say the same thing: it's going down, hard. As sad as it is, it is also extremely needed. I mean it is what it is. If you have too much good you have to level it out with some bad. America has been riding the good times wave for at least 50 years and it's time for our debt, spending and lack of self control and intelligence to finally come to an end. So pack your bags and prepare for hell everyone! We're in for a good hit.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said it best: "It is becoming harder and harder for companies that rely on tricking people into buying something rather than actually providing value so they buy" (I don't remember his exact words, but it was something like that).

<ENTER INTERNET!>

I love the fact that the music industry is falling down because of the Internet. This isn't anything new, it's been going on since Napster, but it is getting harder and harder to stop the exchange of free music and videos. The traditional train of thinking may see this as a terrible thing and something that needs to be stopped, but why? Information should be made more accessible and easier to get. If people are super into this shouldn't there be something done to figure out how to make it work rather than trying to stop it?

Good Riddance!

I think this is a fun question to take on so I will try my best to answer it and provide my opinion.

So I upgraded my phone the other day and as a special one-time sale, I was able to get a mail-in rebate! Oh wait, this is not cool and a total joke and waste of time.

The more I think about this the more I think it's true: employees take each day one at a time and enjoy the most of it, while businessman are always trying to make a better future for themselves.

So about a year ago I decided I was going to start an eBay business and dominate the whole world. As it turns out I ended up getting wrecked and learned a valuable lesson.