30 years ago, she bought a building on what would turn into Main Street but was, for now, just a street in a sleepy town. The building cost $90,000. She was waitressing and planned to use the space to create and sell art. She got seller financing for the first three years on the condition…
Author: Elizabeth Beeli
Derisking: The Missing Piece Between Blimps And Manhattan
There was a time where instead of ominous drones in New Jersey’s skies there were leisurely blimps. It was the 1930s and blimps were viewed as the future of transportation. Thank goodness that didn’t happen. The investors funding the construction of the Empire State Building decided to instruct their engineers to add a BLIMP MAST…
The Risk Of Creating
The act of creating. What started as a blank page is now filled. It started when you started. It wasn’t perfect, or beautiful, or even worthwhile. And it might not ever be. There’s a risk.
What Do You See?
A lawyer looks at a contract and sees all the risk. A customer looks at the contract and sees the cost. A sales person looks at the contract and sees the delays. What lens are you looking through? What lens are the other people at the table looking through?
East Coast Things
Applauding a parallel park job Complaining about single lanes of traffic that back up when one person needs to turn left. Complaining about the bitter cold. Complaining.