Surviving the Downturn: Be Cheap

NVDL: I have some ideas to provide a free service. As the downturn worsens I reckon the idea comes closer to the sweet spot of success.

It's interesting to see, from the thinking mechanism below, that in the midst of difficulty, lies opportunity. To find those opportunities requires a shift in the method to our thinking, our madness. And that is exactly what is necessary.

Also interesting to see that he sees email as dead. It should be, since we had 'chat' software. So why do we still email?

clipped from blog.wired.com "I believe it's going to be a great time to start something new," said Rose, while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, in San Francisco. His argument: There is less competition and noise in the marketplace and it's easier to get press. "Funding for consumer internet companies is going away and that means there's going to be a lot of opporunity for everyone." And instead of dishing out tens of thousands of dollars for a fulltime developer, Rose outsourced it to a guy through Elance, and paid one-third of what he would have spent on somebody in the U.S. "I really believe that email communication is dead," said Rose. "Twitter is more of a real-time communication."