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What is it with kids these days… it seems kids in there 20s think they know everything. We know all the answers to political problems, we know all the answers to business problems, social problems, etc. Well, I am a kid and I recently decided I have the answers to a couple of important problems and am going to take action on them. These problems include:

1. Baby-boomer small business owners “don’t get it” when it comes to technology. This is not their fault, no one has really talked to them about the role of technology in business in their language yet.
2. Big corporations move too slowly… they think standardization and homogenization is the key to consistent quality across a global empire. Yet when they converge a navy small, agile, and fast moving ships; they create an aircraft carrier that is impossible to turn in the face new attacks.
3. In climbing a corporate ladder, you take direction and execute on it as fast possible to make yourself look good. Process is repeated over and over and over in hopes of making another $10,000 or even another $100,000. With this focus, there is no way to innovate, build something amazing, and make $10,000,000.
4. Companies still don’t embrace Blue Ocean Strategy (SIDENOTE: I highly recommend reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy). They still think that competing with other firms for business is an established market or industry is the way to win. Rarely is there a realization that through an innovation process you can CREATE a new market, thereby making competition irrelevant.

Well, being 26 and knowing everything, I have made the decision to solve these problems. As anticipated by this point probably, HERE IS MY BIG NEWS… I am ending my days at E&Y and starting a business. A business that is small, quick, and agile that will create new market space (a Blue Ocean) and will change the small business technology industry if all goes as planned. I actually don’t think I know everything. In fact, my philosophy is that I really know very little but am an excellent learner. And I plan to take what I know, learn very fast, and build something great.

I can’t wait tell everyone about the details of my plan; I am so excited and so nervous. The great part is that never have I felt more alive than I do now. My last day at my current job will be the 18th of this month and then we are off. Much, much more to come but wanted to let everyone it’s official for now. So, it’s official, and I cannot wait to do this!