Strategy Shift and Pearls Only Germany Site

Germany launched yesterday – Pearlsonly.de extreme effort to localize a site but we managed it via outsourcing, and in-house skills. Very proud of everyone and how well they did. Last week was also quite significant as after months of exploring I have decided to...

Over the weekend

Few cool things over the weekend. 1st – finally (and I mean finally) after months of work, a US account via HSBC is now close to being opened.  Only took 4 months! 2nd – connected with some smart people about currency movements into China – the way we are doing...

Success

The difference between failure and success is 6 months. (a twist on the its close cousin of “The difference between success and failure is 6 months”) – a more positive spin

Forecasts

Big part of the day I spent looking at forecasts for 2011, 2012 and 2013.   I played with a number of factors – such as economy in the US, UK, etc.   My models work on a large number of assumptions – so not only is the ‘forecasting’ a little like...

Re-evaluating Everything

One of the great things that is coming out of the work in finance is that it forces me to actually re-evaluate every single part of the business.   Each stage, piece, structure, strategy, cost, income is now getting visibility (or at least is getting talked...