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      "body": "With UFC 250 just around the corner, I decided to pull this post out of the vault. Other than whisky and video games there isn't really any of my interests that have hung around me as long as the UFC has. So part opinion, part analysis -  this post is my recap of what happened in between the early days of the UFC and the lead up to one of their biggest Pay-Per-View events, UFC 200. \n\nUltimate Fighting Championship (UFC) started out a small, obscure sports brand promoting events of 1-on-1 cage fights between fighters and opened in the US as a new, seemingly more brutal, bloodsport pitched to a small number of extreme fights fans, and outlier sports enthusiasts. For years, the UFC struggled to pick a name for themselves as new audiences would argue “Is it boxing and wrestling?” or “This is just kick-boxing in a cage, right?” Because of the variety of styles of its fighters, watching any one contest could leave you with a different impression of what the sport is.\n\nIn the struggle for adoption and acceptance the UFC has made, and continues to make choices to differentiate themselves, as well as some choices to show people a familiarity that they see in other sports:\n\n \n\n#### Differentiation Choices:\n\nFighters compete in an 8-sided “ring” with chicken wire type fences that enclose it.\n\n![Octagon Picture.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPDLuaHvHrEmonR1S2p2QjGjRtfKNio98oG4qbCgMZFGv/Octagon%20Picture.png)\n\nFights of 3 or 5 (Five Minute) Rounds\n\n#### Acceptance Choices:\n\n- UFC Adopted a 10-Point-Must scoring system similar to that in Professional Boxing\n- Fighters ended up using Boxing style gloves, with finger sections cut out\n- Fights consisting of rounds at all, many Mixed Martial Arts sports are just one open period of contest. No rounds.\n\n \n\nThese early decisions may or may not have directly contributed to their growth in size and prominence as the leading Mixed Martial Arts fight network. But indirectly, you can say that all of them contributed their share to making the UFC what it is.\n\nWhat is more interesting now, is to look at the recent choices the UFC has made, and dissect what they mean for future of the sports company. First let’s look at their business model, and pick out where their greatest assets are.\n\nThe UFC’s main source of revenue comes from TV viewers that purchase it’s monthly live Pay-Per-View events. Even though UFC has branched out into online events, and even events on Fox Sports channels, you could argue that these are all still a way to drive viewers to it’s main revenue source. Minor revenue sources are also their apparel and gear lines, Reebok sponsorship, and advertising revenue.\n\nWhile they have tangible assets such as cash in the bank, UFC fitness locations (gyms), vehicles to transport their event gear such as lights, cameras, the ring & cage,  Their assets are largely intangible, which proves to be part of the threat to them as competitors flock to the scene.\n\nTV Rights: Come and go over the years. In just over a decade, the UFC has already been shown on Spike, Star Sports, FX, Fox and many many others.\n\nPersonalities: The UFC gets much of its popularity not from the actual competitions between fighters, but from the personalities that attract fans to follow those fighters. Fighters actions inside and outside the ring both have effects on their persona and following from fans.\n\nBrand: The UFC is unquestionably the large player in Mixed Martial Arts sector. Now attracting well over 80% of the MMA audiences,   but at one point their market share was well over 90%. Here is a good article on Forbes suggesting the current brand alone is worth about $440 Million.\n\nApparel Lines: While the output of shirts, gloves, hats, etc are tangible goods, the name and prestige of that attracts customers to wear UFC gear comes and goes with the UFC’s popularity, and the style they inject into the sport are intangible.\n\nSo how do they avoid the pitfalls of becoming a lumbering giant of a corporation, unable to adapt to changes, and even more threatening, unable to constantly predict “What is the business we should be in?” and move into the space effectively before other competitors do? Let’s look at these in the context of the decisions that the UFC has recently made, or is currently making.\n\n#### Pitfall #1 – Falling into “We’re The Best” type thinking\n\nThe UFC in its early days had a decided advantage on other sports brands because it was small and nimble. They could make decisions to run PPV’s or promote particular fights that fans were demanding in order to directly increase PPV buys. They are so large now, with so many events yearly, hundreds of fighters and millions of fans, that they now have to plan events long in advance, and decide fights between competitors that they think fans want to watch 6 months down the road. But the idea is that they are the premiere brand in the sport, so a certain amount of people will watch anything they put on.\n\nLooking up at themselves on a pedestal, it would be easy for them to think that they are the monopoly in the space, and therefore invincible. But small, upstart sports brands, or competitors do not go unnoticed by the UFC. They have mirrored some of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s moves to buy out and envelope small competitors as they arise. Taking notice of any name or company that has the ability to out-compete them one day. These purchases include other organizations such as Pride, Strikeforce, Glory, K1, EBI and many more. \n\n#### Pitfall #2 – Forced Release Cycles\n\nHow does a company maintain its edge, and radically innovate if they are also forced into needing to maintain regular release dates of products or improvements to keep their customer base happy?\n\nEvents are coming so regularly now (2-3 a month between Fox, FX, Fightpass and PPV) , that the UFC is struggling to display differentiation between their own events that can attract viewers to one over the other. Their early model for events was to jam-pack their fight card with as many superstar names as possible. Giving fans a reason to watch every single PPV. Now with the number of events they put on, they have no choice but to water down each card, and spread their big name fighters over more of them. Attracting potentially more viewers over the total number of cards, but also potentially having an impact on their image as the brand that puts on the most jaw-dropping, star-packed fight events in the industry.\n\nBut as they move towards their 200th PPV event (UFC 200), they show some signs of going back to their old ways of promoting all their biggest names on one card (as in UFC 100). But will this be a single-event, or a continued trend?\n\n![Long UFC 200 Pic.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmasWbMJav3qXg2DbowKFYjQ9behq9MgxSH64CSbxEjCi8/Long%20UFC%20200%20Pic.png)\n\n#### Pitfall #3 – Misaligned Incentives for Decision Makers\n\nWho calls the shots? And how in sync are the top executives with the reasons that guide those decisions?\n\nThe UFC has 3 main decision makers. They are, in descending order of clout; Lorenzo Fertitta, part owner and controller of the parent company,  Dana White – President of the UFC, and Joe Silva, Vice President for Talent Relations.\n\nFrank and Lorenzo Fertitta purchased the UFC for a rock-bottom 2 million dollars. While they have both been involved in the major decisions since the UFC’s rise in popularity, they defer a lot of the main decisions to the person who embodies the company’s vision, President Dana White.  A recent deal the UFC has made with Reebok to financially sponsor all their fighters, in return for exclusive advertising rights on fighter gear and apparel, shows a place where the people who guide decisions to secure the financial stability and advertising presence of the company, clash with the ability of the people who manage the talent to do their job effectively and protect the interests of the fighters.\n\nFighters used to be able to go seek and negotiate their own sponsorship deals, pocketing whatever they could earn from various sponsors looking to get advertising space in the fight game. The new structure under Reebok makes it so that fighters get paid a set amount according to  a number of fights they’ve had in the UFC. Further details here.\n\nThis has created turmoil inside the MMA community and complaints from fighters all both ends of the popularity scale claiming that their earnings per fight have been drastically reduced. Even causing fighters to leave the UFC in search of organizations that will allow them to source their own sponsorship revenue. While the deal seems to be have many upsides for the UFC itself, fighters (who attract the viewers to the sport, not clothing companies) seem to see mostly downsides. The question could be posed that a deal such as this if it is critical to the continued success of the UFC, is also be default then good for the fighters who require the brand in order to compete in front of big audiences. Perhaps the fighters themselves are too close to the impact of the decision, and are thinking of only the short-term consequences. But it could also be the other way around that the UFC is looking for immediate sponsorship and taking an opportunity to snap up a bigger audience, rather than making choices that protect the interests of their fighters.\n\n#### Pitfall #4 – Protecting Your Current Revenue Stream\n\nThis is of course a natural activity to be engaged in. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. So if you are required to ensure that you keep making money, how much of your revenue to do you divert into research and development, or into exploring new ways of doing business? Another way to phrase it might be; how much do you risk, to ensure returns later?\n\nThere is a perfect case to study this idea as it relates to the UFC. There is currently one superstar in the UFC that outshines everyone in the history of the sport in terms of fan-base, marketability and earning potential.Conor McGregor is an Irish Mixed Martial Arts fighter that achieved meteoric rise primarily attributed to his brash, cocky personality, headline worthy trash-talking of opponents and the backing of an entire nation of rabid fight fans (Ireland) who flock to purchase his event tickets, and PPV’s.  Conor’s traditional media coverage, and social media presences far surpasses any fighter that the UFC has seen. With the ability to create headlines and sell-out events with 1 Tweet, Conor is unmistakably the UFC’s biggest draw right now.\n\n![Connor Tweet.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYPU6PTgBsactwSyKmJaqETH9xcAGqkmc1VtLQ9vQtXCN/Connor%20Tweet.png)\n\nBut recent decisions by Conor to pull out of media obligations required of all fighters signed up for an upcoming fight-card have caused the UFC to force his hand and demand that he shows up, taking time off from training. Conor pushed back with an outburst on Twitter announcing his retirement, and siting an inability to prepare for a fight properly amongst the UFC’s high volume of press obligations. The question is does the UFC allow a fighter, even if he is their largest draw, to pick and choose which fighter obligations they obey, or do they cut Conor from his scheduled fight, and set a precedent that all fighters, no matter how big, must follow the rules of attending press events in order to properly promote a fight. The UFC seems to have chosen the integrity of their institution over the immediate revenue gain of having Conor on one more fight card by announcing his replacement on the card by another fighter. But this public battle has had both sides flip-flopping as they each pursue what is best for themselves at this time.\n\n \n#### Conclusion\n\nAt this point it is pretty difficult, even for a fan such as me, deep into the world of UFC wether they are making choices that will end up keeping them ahead of their competition, or if they have fallen into the rigidity of the thinking patterns corporations experience that are trying to achieve horizontal growth. They appear to be making some very smart moves, and others that make you wonder where priorities are.\n\nAs a long term solutions for any company or individual, I propose that the only way an institution can retain it’s flexibility and ability to move is by internalizing a process from top to bottom that allows them to bust out of the boundaries of their current comfort zone, and search for new ways of doing their own business.  Such a process could look like this:\n\n![Worldview Cycle Pic.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmT3y2FxEtM53uAdtDesPbYBM2AJMVtTevfhfHj3vJZC8S/Worldview%20Cycle%20Pic.png)\n\nStarting with a worldview outside your own (perhaps that of your competition), and predict what advantages that person or company has over you. What business do they think they should be in? This begins the process of a company becoming radically adaptable. Next looking at what those predictions mean for your company; what are the changes in the industry that you can preempt, what are the headlines of tomorrow? There must be a solid foundation of research into these “predictions” to discover which ones are credible threats, and which ones are just fearful thinking. Incorporating the meanings of these predictions into actual business practice is the most critical part. Communicating at all levels of your organization as to what your newly adjusted goals are, and what are the carrots of tomorrow that you are chasing after. Communication does nothing without consistent action behind it. Setting department and team goals as of how to divert resources into these new sectors, but still maintain a healthy core of operational practices, while incorporating new and exploratory tactics into company operations. The cycle begins anew by identifying what is the next radical perspective that you are not considering right now. 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      "body": "## Go, See and Listen\n\nOne of my founding principles for this business was that I would not come up with my method of doing business based upon ideas that just sound good.\n\nI wanted my foundations to be field tested. Based on practices of what people really need to improve their work opportunities.\n\nI think far too many people nowadays are trying to outdo each other with their righteousness. \n\nAs Alan Watts said \"...the reason you aren’t better is because you want to be. The problem with the world is that it’s filled with do good’ers.\"\n\nSo in starting a mission driven business, I’m careful about where I aim and start my Do Goodery. It's based around the ideas that people inherently seek a better situation for themselves and their loved ones, and that a stable economic opportunity, free of hazard, oppression and abuse is the bedrock of pursuing that path of improvement. \n\nIt may sound selfish, but most of my do-gooding is done for myself and for those I love. But I pursue these benefits for myself and my family in a way that is good for my communities and hopefully society as a whole.\n\nSo before I assumed I could help anyone in a far off country and a foreign work situation, I thought it damn prudent to go and see how exactly those people go about their business. What, if anything, do they need my help with?\n\nOf course I went in with all kinds of assumptions about what people were facing related to living conditions, hazardous work, meagre pay. They all got beaten into the ground. But that part of it was actually rather enjoyable. \n\nBeing proven wrong can be very enjoyable. Especially if you don’t care about being right! I just care about being less wrong. At least I aim for that. Of course my self-esteem and ego and pride get in the way of learning more often than not. However, having \"be less wrong\" as my North Star has been the most useful piece of new guidance that I have internalized over the last year. \n\nAfter travelling the world, and living in the plushest high rise in downtown Beijing, I was working in a very enriched position. I was working 100 hours a week, but everyone in the company loved me. Possibly because I was outgoing and dedicated to the job, but also because I had been best friends with the Owner and CEO since high school. if co-workers didn't like me they were at least smart enough to not show it. It was rare that I was challenged by anyone other than myself.\n\nI knew everything about everything. \n\nSnap forward to my visit to Nepal where this foreign, sometimes harsh but devastatingly beautiful developing nation was about to unload a dump truck of less wrong on me.\n\nAfter all of my high-pressure startup experience working in a highly uncharted environment, I was going to have to start from scratch again. What parts of my work would translate to this environment? What can I do that stands a chance of being valuable?\n\nWhen you hear the word \"*industry*\" - do you think about this?\n\n\n\n\n[Or this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYGZOkYYPc) (<--- Watch the video here)\n\n![Weaving Shop Cover Pikto.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSHoxghAfqEb1KtqDqbhP6QjEP7GuNGB3JuYS1NUvGgMx/Weaving%20Shop%20Cover%20Pikto.png)\n\nThis video is from a spot that has an amazing story of production. One that is happening in 2019, but it could have just as easily happened a thousand years ago.\n ![fullsizeoutput_16b8.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXS78rWGFAeKRmDDhrYLPKpJ16HtEzMNgCnaQ1FGckrTR/fullsizeoutput_16b8.jpeg)\n\nA man from the city purchased this building and these two looms for production. Then employed multiple women from the village to learn how to hand weave on the looms. To get their materials someone has to put cotton thread on a or a donkey and lead the donkey up the mountain. But it allows these women to work part time from their village and earn an income without having to uproot from their family and search an opportunity in the city.\n\nSome of these pieces (visible hanging on the walls) take more than 4 days to make.\n \n\nHow about this ?\n\n![IMG_0894.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYR6536v3PZrbYJfE3vJmvcBn81Uure7LMNxwv4TPdq1t/IMG_0894.jpg)\n\nFor me this is the most fantastic story of modern, adaptable industry in a difficult rural landscape. Companies in Nepal have come up with a new business model to make high-end hand made carpets.\n\nThey employ workers, in their own villages all over the countryside of Nepal to weave carpets from their home. They use a system of trucks and porters to deliver the materials to their villages. When the carpets are done, the worker throws them up on a donkey, truck or porter and they get taken back to the city to a central warehouse. \n\nWhat this business model allows:\n\n- It means the family doesn’t have to uproot themselves and move into the city\n- It means the women (who are the main workers for this industry) can work from home and continue to be the primary figure in the upbringing of their children\n- It means their children can go to school in the village, instead of a much more crowded city school\n- It means the small village community doesn’t lose a family, along with their members who are a valuable piece of the community\n- And it means that the kids, husband or whoever is able bodied can work in the local farm or garden adding another service to the community and an income to the household\n\nSo you see this is a fantastic business model that is working in the way that has become counter-intuitive to how we organize and relocate people around work in modern environments.\n\nWe assume that people must go to where the jobs are. That people must move near production to be more productive.\n\n> But maybe you are **more valuable** as a productive member of a productive family within a small community.\n\nIn the same way that we need 2 to 3 million small businesses to keep North American gainfully employed over the next 50 years. 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      "body": "![Simple and Complex.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmf4cako4PhkKJ4opMyiW4A3UDs552R9cSU4ZZSMgaVRqY/Simple%20and%20Complex.png)\n\n#### A Side Bar on Complexity\n\nHere I went out on a bit of a tangent for my talk to talk about how I see business models successfully layering simple and complex functions on top of each other to create a winning environment for their customers.\n\nFor myself to explain everything I am trying to do is not so straight forward. I begin by searching out small suppliers in far flung countries around the world, rooting through their wares for the most beautiful items and bringing them back here. Only then to tell a story about them, sell them to crafters and creators here in North America.  Which has to go well in order for me to be able to turn around revenue from those sales and find new startups and business in small communities that I can fund through creation of micro loans. Many things can go wrong in any step of the process. \n\nWhen I began I set my company a goal that was easier to communicate to my customer. Sell truly bold and unique fabrics. My customer doesn't need to know anything about my back-office to know whether what they are looking at is beautiful to them or not. I know what result I'm shooting for. As long as I execute on the beauty, I can do as much after work as I want.\n\nOnce customers are on board for the beauty I have time to bring them into the fold about my whole story.\n\nI think the average person is smarter than we like to give credit. I think people can handle complex ideas. Things don’t need to be dumbed down just to sell. But in the early days of a business, I do think it is a good idea to have a simple marker of success. Get one foundational thing very right. The complexity is sure to follow.\n\nIf people only buy your product because it has a good altruistic story behind it, it is only living up to half of it's responsibility as a product.\n\nIf people buy your product because they love it, they will love it even more if they find out after the fact that their purchase is still doing generative work somewhere around the world as a bonus.\n\nThis led me to look around at other businesses and see if there are places where  \n\n**Layering Simplicity on top of Complexity**\n\nThe idea here is to make sure if your business idea is already complex, make sure that the way that people access it is simple. Simple access to a complicated choice. \n\n![Trader Joes.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmY1SJMSSY8kcuKCY9hnnvqLENFzjDfuyPd4qLqWbZmr9H/Trader%20Joes.png)\n\n**Example Case - Trader Joe’s:** Anyone who knows Trader Joes knows that they march to the beat of a different drummer. And if you love Trader Joes, it's a good chance that is the very reason you love them. They made a splash in the retail grocery industry over a quiet few decades by making sure they operate their stores in a way that makes sense to them as shoppers, not on industry norms.  They don’t advertise much, don’t do social media. They use handwritten signs in their stores, they rotate products regularly, they encourage shoppers to taste anything they want and a million other little differences that make them feel unique. The biggest difference is that they have about one third of the SKU’s of a traditional grocery store. They carry way less variety and are way more profitable for it. The most profitable grocery stores by square foot in the world. \n\nThey don’t have 70 kinds of ketchup. They have 2 Ketchups. A couple of types of hash browns, a few brands of chardonnay. They keep it simple. They know a grocery store of thousands of items is complex - so they don’t layer on more complexity.\n\nThey layer the simplicity of choice onto the complexity of grocery shopping. And their customers appreciate them for it.\n\n**Layering Complexity on top of Simplicity**\n\n![Beef Jerky Outlet.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdBKzBsRyVy9GnkEkK57K4oVkhP1dvvcxXshD7f7pdRoY/Beef%20Jerky%20Outlet.png)\n\n**Example Case - Beef Jerky Outlet:** There is a place in Orlando that I used to go simply because they had hundreds of kinds of jerky. Begin with the simple concept of dried meat. Layered on as much complexity as they can get through the door. Animals of every variation. Alligator, kangaroo, all these wonderful, wild and potentially awful types of jerky to experiment with. But the discerning factor is that you can tell what you are looking at from 100 feet away from the store. You aren’t walking in that store if you want a vacuum filter. You can see the simplicity of the business from the outside, and only people who are interested in buying jerky are going to walk in. Once Jerky people are inside, bombard them with as much complexity as you want, and they'll love you for it.\n\nPeople everywhere around the world are so bloody complex. So complicated. That if you have the dam fool idea that you want to help them you better keep it simple.\n\nWe have our own motivations, shortcomings, relationships and pressures. Our own pressure we are put on other people. To truly think you can step into someone’s world and do anything except help them go down in flames is just the height of absurdity.\n\n> But we keep doing it. And sometimes it works.\n\nMy story about how I failed to keep it simple and failed to help. 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      "body": "## Go, See and Listen\n\nOne of my founding principles for this business was that I would not come up with my method of doing business based upon ideas that just sound good.\n\nI wanted my foundations to be field tested. Based on practices of what people really need to improve their work opportunities.\n\nI think far too many people nowadays are trying to outdo each other with their righteousness. \n\nAs Alan Watts said \"...the reason you aren’t better is because you want to be. The problem with the world is that it’s filled with do good’ers.\"\n\nSo in starting a mission driven business, I’m careful about where I aim and start my Do Goodery. It's based around the ideas that people inherently seek a better situation for themselves and their loved ones, and that a stable economic opportunity, free of hazard, oppression and abuse is the bedrock of pursuing that path of improvement. \n\nIt may sound selfish, but most of my do-gooding is done for myself and for those I love. But I pursue these benefits for myself and my family in a way that is good for my communities and hopefully society as a whole.\n\nSo before I assumed I could help anyone in a far off country and a foreign work situation, I thought it damn prudent to go and see how exactly those people go about their business. What, if anything, do they need my help with?\n\nOf course I went in with all kinds of assumptions about what people were facing related to living conditions, hazardous work, meagre pay. They all got beaten into the ground. But that part of it was actually rather enjoyable. \n\nBeing proven wrong can be very enjoyable. Especially if you don’t care about being right! I just care about being less wrong. At least I aim for that. Of course my self-esteem and ego and pride get in the way of learning more often than not. However, having \"be less wrong\" as my North Star has been the most useful piece of new guidance that I have internalized over the last year. \n\nAfter travelling the world, and living in the plushest high rise in downtown Beijing, I was working in a very enriched position. I was working 100 hours a week, but everyone in the company loved me. Possibly because I was outgoing and dedicated to the job, but also because I had been best friends with the Owner and CEO since high school. if co-workers didn't like me they were at least smart enough to not show it. It was rare that I was challenged by anyone other than myself.\n\nI knew everything about everything. \n\nSnap forward to my visit to Nepal where this foreign, sometimes harsh but devastatingly beautiful developing nation was about to unload a dump truck of less wrong on me.\n\nAfter all of my high-pressure startup experience working in a highly uncharted environment, I was going to have to start from scratch again. What parts of my work would translate to this environment? What can I do that stands a chance of being valuable?\n\nWhen you hear the word \"*industry*\" - do you think about this?\n\n\n\n\n[Or this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYGZOkYYPc) (<--- Watch the video here)\n\n![Weaving Shop Cover Pikto.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSHoxghAfqEb1KtqDqbhP6QjEP7GuNGB3JuYS1NUvGgMx/Weaving%20Shop%20Cover%20Pikto.png)\n\nThis video is from a spot that has an amazing story of production. One that is happening in 2019, but it could have just as easily happened a thousand years ago.\n ![fullsizeoutput_16b8.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXS78rWGFAeKRmDDhrYLPKpJ16HtEzMNgCnaQ1FGckrTR/fullsizeoutput_16b8.jpeg)\n\nA man from the city purchased this building and these two looms for production. Then employed multiple women from the village to learn how to hand weave on the looms. To get their materials someone has to put cotton thread on a or a donkey and lead the donkey up the mountain. But it allows these women to work part time from their village and earn an income without having to uproot from their family and search an opportunity in the city.\n\nSome of these pieces (visible hanging on the walls) take more than 4 days to make.\n \n\nHow about this ?\n\n![IMG_0894.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYR6536v3PZrbYJfE3vJmvcBn81Uure7LMNxwv4TPdq1t/IMG_0894.jpg)\n\nFor me this is the most fantastic story of modern, adaptable industry in a difficult rural landscape. Companies in Nepal have come up with a new business model to make high-end hand made carpets.\n\nThey employ workers, in their own villages all over the countryside of Nepal to weave carpets from their home. They use a system of trucks and porters to deliver the materials to their villages. When the carpets are done, the worker throws them up on a donkey, truck or porter and they get taken back to the city to a central warehouse. \n\nWhat this business model allows:\n\n- It means the family doesn’t have to uproot themselves and move into the city\n- It means the women (who are the main workers for this industry) can work from home and continue to be the primary figure in the upbringing of their children\n- It means their children can go to school in the village, instead of a much more crowded city school\n- It means the small village community doesn’t lose a family, along with their members who are a valuable piece of the community\n- And it means that the kids, husband or whoever is able bodied can work in the local farm or garden adding another service to the community and an income to the household\n\nSo you see this is a fantastic business model that is working in the way that has become counter-intuitive to how we organize and relocate people around work in modern environments.\n\nWe assume that people must go to where the jobs are. That people must move near production to be more productive.\n\n> But maybe you are **more valuable** as a productive member of a productive family within a small community.\n\nIn the same way that we need 2 to 3 million small businesses to keep North American gainfully employed over the next 50 years. As well might we need 2 to 3 million small communities to show us where we are most valuable.\n\n\nTo be soon continued.....\n\n\nCheck out my other posts on Steem @\n\n- https://steemit.com/china/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-5\n- https://steemit.com/capitalism/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-4\n- https://steemit.com/nepal/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-3\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-2\n- https://steemit.com/trade/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-1\n- https://steemit.com/risk/@almostfitz/day-411-you-vs-the-ledger\n- https://steemit.com/pareto/@almostfitz/day-404-the-pareto-demon\n- https://steemit.com/problems/@almostfitz/yeah-sure-wake-up\n- https://steemit.com/problems/@almostfitz/solve-interesting-problems\n- https://steemit.com/work/@almostfitz/bringing-it-home\n- https://steemit.com/timing/@almostfitz/timing-is-everything\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/today-is-free\n- https://steemit.com/funding/@almostfitz/think-local-act-global\n- https://steemit.com/revenue/@almostfitz/day-4-369-the-wheel-turns-all-ways\n- https://steemit.com/insurance/@almostfitz/day-3-368-what-aren-t-you-insured-for\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/day-2-find-funding-day-367-find-customers\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/the-day-it-all-started\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/experimenting-with-the-bogo-3-0-business-model\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/why-this-business-data-confidence-and-shit-testing\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/why-this-business-set-your-anchors-deep\n- https://steemit.com/travel/@almostfitz/tourists-pull-your-head-out-of-your-ass\n- https://steemit.com/worst/@almostfitz/the-potential-freedom-in-being-the-world-s-worst-entrepreneur-\n- https://steemit.com/business/@almostfitz/open-for-business-11-pictures-about-launching-a-startup-speak-11-000-words\n\nCheck out my posts on my other blog on my Shopify store @\n\nhttps://miiru-trading.myshopify.com/",
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      "body": "As I was saying, our problem to deal with in the West is one of declining ingenuity and entrepreneurism.  We must deal with it before the price tag becomes too rich. Small companies are what make our modern economy work.\n\nIf you imagine out 50 years - it won't be 15 million Canadians or 150 Million Americans being employed in a few mammoth companies.\n\nIt will be 2 to 3 million small businesses that employ the majority of people. But with startup rates in both these countries at the rates they are, we are not setting ourselves up for a prosperous and connected next 50 years.\n\n![Entrepreneur Rates Sliding.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSTio3m1autkvgfmxBbvuTZdWss64DNMMZnVbAV19nUUq/Entrepreneur%20Rates%20Sliding.png)\n\nOur current tilt towards these mega-corporations and an all time low in new business start ups is not sustainable. It will not create the jobs we need as the bedrock of a stable economy during this century.\n\nThis is what I ask myself when I think about how I may act sustainably. \n\n- Does this action help to sustain my family, in a way that is also beneficial to society at large?\n- Will it sustain our livelihoods?\n- Will it sustain our planets ability to host us, now and into the future?\n\nThe story is quite opposite in China, India, Nigeria and other rapidly developing nations. Rates of entrepreneurship and new business formations are at an all time high. Beijing and Jerusalem are the #2 and #3 startup capitals of the world right behind Silicon Valley.\n\nThere is more money, more movement and more energy tan ever before. What does this allow for? First of all, a lot of money allows you room to make a lot of mistakes. If there is one thing I learned in my last position it is that when you are doing the main business driver right, you can make a lot of mistakes. We were making a lot of money providing a needed service, so we could hire, fire, experiment, open and close branch offices and iterate in a ton of risky ways - precisely because we had the runway to keep going through all these tests.\n\nIf you are doing the main business driver wrong, you only get one fuck up once. Short on resources and lax in your fundamentals the first major shift, bounced payment or risky expenditure will take you out. \n\n### Free Trade\n\nA global \"policy\" of free and open trade has been at the core of our global economy for the majority of the 20th century. You could argue it has been critical for much longer than that. The idea that goods flow freely around the world from where they are made, to where they are needed is so common place as to seem simplistic now. \n\nWhen I thought about manufacturing in another country,  I thought of long hours worked by unhappy workers in squalid conditions. Poor pay for labor in unsafe working environments. \nThose are certainly true in some cases\n\nBut \"poor pay\" and \"unsafe conditions\" are relative terms. Here's an example:\n\nOne of the most dangerous things I’ve ever done is just drive on a road between two cities in Nepal.\n\n![Nepal Road.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUYDUG7Jj3Mm7RaX1fXeev1YxU3v8m9TUT2ifTtApamUJ/Nepal%20Road.png)\n\nIt was a $5 bus trip on a local bus (minivan) from Kathmandu to Pokhara. Weaving, narrow, destroyed roads with buses winging around the corner ever 30 seconds into our lane, only to adjust and swerve right at the last moment. I spent 5 hours with my heart in my throat and a pleather covered seat spring jammed into my ass.\n\nWhile everyone else around me was as calm as Hindus cows. \nMy emerging thought, in between panic attacks was “How in the hell does anything at all get done around here?” But things do get done. People go to work. Goods move around the country. While everyone aims for a better existence.\n\nHere's a thought experiment, via way of a personal example:\n\nYou don't have to imagine what the height of textile manufacturing looks like today. I can show you. The highest production level and most commercialized state is manifested today in Southern China. \n\nWatch this video --> [Fabric Markets of Guangzhou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nja0vVI0jGE&t=19s)\n\nAnd just over the Himalayan mountains into the country of Nepal there is the perfect alternate situation. \n\n![fullsizeoutput_11cd.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQ3ksmUe5ckcisvbRhFTzBJKsdcvKfV1egNWfsxSh1djg/fullsizeoutput_11cd.jpeg) \n\nI visited this factory before purchasing a shipment of yak wool. Part of my process is to qualify my small suppliers and make sure I like how they do business. This was a small factory in an outer part of Kathmandu. People working on an optional day off, where the local transit was shut down. So they had come to work under their own steam. No dank small rooms, no pouring dye and acid into a local stream. Just small groups of people working on different tasks and chatting. Some were so eager to show me what they were working on that they let me try their machines. \n\nSo if we compare the two places, one is large and technologically advanced, while one is technologically simple and the output is small. Who is to say which is any more right? The market in Guangzhou has malls with 1500 stores in it. Each store employing a few workers, supplied by a factory which could be hundreds more. In Nepal, the small factory is run by 50-60 people working away their day.\n\nIf you hear a voice saying that the institutional factory environment of China is somehow less virtuous than the scrappy little up-comers of Nepal, I would pause and ask yourself \"Why\"?\n\nThere is a story in the end of Outliers: by Malcom Gladwell about cultural differences that manifested over centuries by the farming of grain in the North of China and the farming of rice in the south of China.\n\n![Rice Paddy Shot.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWZuKjTEbL6XjgPgP9RHVupJJuJHkVmqbCfRtZ57ujRcL/Rice%20Paddy%20Shot.png)\n\nRice paddies can be continuously tilled, irrigated and tended to improve the yield of crops. Wheat cannot. If you want more, you have to take up more space.\n\nSo a difference of work ethic developed. In the South the farmers were used to looking at ways to improve what space they had. Making their limited resources actually do more. One only needs to take a trip to Hong Kong to see how this mindset has instantiated itself into a whole city and beyond.\n\nIn the North they looked for more space to spread their crops.\nWhen you have limited space, it seems you learn to work better with others. You are less confrontational, more communal. \n\nI can tell you from my personal experience this comes out in ways you would not expect. Everyone I met in Southern China is an acquaintance. Very polite. But you are kept as an acquaintance to them. Not loved, not hated. I think it is because one day you might have to end up working with each other. Being acquaintances means a good arms length relationship. Familiar, but stable enough to work together well.\n\nThe small factory that employs 40 to 50 people can be more tenuous, but can also be more stable. Companies less focused on growth are often focused on other things such as development of personnel or improvement of product\n\nIf this industry in Nepal around wool and cotton production turns into a booming industry. Then continues for 20 years, so that countless players are able to compete in it. Seemingly endless new players and products enter the space. Then it starts to move in direction of an industry populated by Super Malls and garment districts. At what point of growth does a small industry in boom suddenly cross over this point of supposed \"big business\" evil? \n\nIs it once it supports the 501st family?  \n\nBehind the obscured window of big business, might it not just be 500 factories like this one in Nepal? Smiling workers, that had come in voluntarily on a holiday so that they could get a few more hours. Working in a job that is good by local standards, and pushing for more as they do so.\n\n> This to me kills the idea that size of a business has anything to do with its virtue. \n\nCheck out my other posts on Steem @\n\n- https://steemit.com/capitalism/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-4\n- https://steemit.com/nepal/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-3\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-2\n- https://steemit.com/trade/@almostfitz/sustainable-standards-and-free-trade-pt-1\n- https://steemit.com/risk/@almostfitz/day-411-you-vs-the-ledger\n- https://steemit.com/pareto/@almostfitz/day-404-the-pareto-demon\n- https://steemit.com/problems/@almostfitz/yeah-sure-wake-up\n- https://steemit.com/problems/@almostfitz/solve-interesting-problems\n- https://steemit.com/work/@almostfitz/bringing-it-home\n- https://steemit.com/timing/@almostfitz/timing-is-everything\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/today-is-free\n- https://steemit.com/funding/@almostfitz/think-local-act-global\n- https://steemit.com/revenue/@almostfitz/day-4-369-the-wheel-turns-all-ways\n- https://steemit.com/insurance/@almostfitz/day-3-368-what-aren-t-you-insured-for\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/day-2-find-funding-day-367-find-customers\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/the-day-it-all-started\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/experimenting-with-the-bogo-3-0-business-model\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/why-this-business-data-confidence-and-shit-testing\n- https://steemit.com/startup/@almostfitz/why-this-business-set-your-anchors-deep\n- https://steemit.com/travel/@almostfitz/tourists-pull-your-head-out-of-your-ass\n- https://steemit.com/worst/@almostfitz/the-potential-freedom-in-being-the-world-s-worst-entrepreneur-\n- https://steemit.com/business/@almostfitz/open-for-business-11-pictures-about-launching-a-startup-speak-11-000-words\n\nCheck out my posts on my other blog on my Shopify store @\n\n- https://miiru-trading.myshopify.com/",
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      "body": "Maybe not enough trickles down...\n\nCapitalism has become like a banker spilling coins between his fingers as he robs the vault - the only thing left for those at the bottom of productive hierarchies is whatever drops through the fingers of those who benefit most in our current structures. People are quick to blame this inequality on corruption. On a bad system.\n\n![modern capitalism.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQMmFaQPy7tYs638n6Ugb6wMboDiq6WAXhjZvQULy2j4p/modern%20capitalism.jpg)\n\nBut there is an interesting idea put forward in the book \"The Great Leveller\", the concept of the book is that historically, and in all societies inequality always rises…..except when some major disaster flattens everyone out again, such as war, famine, etc. It proclaims that we should actually hope that inequality increases, because the only consistent mechanisms that reduces this economic inequality are catastrophes on a scale which make living through them much worse than living conditions that results from any common economic disparity.\n\n![the great leveller.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmboPwdeq6buQFHSYcSCdyWQzFyLpLkHCSRbw8g5kpFjRU/the%20great%20leveller.jpg)\n\nSomewhere within is the proposition that even if economic inequality does rise, that the says nothing to the fact that concurrently conditions can improve for those at the bottom rung of society.  The floor keeps rising. That all of us, including the world's poorest are brought along with that rise.w\n\nRadical egalitarianism doesn’t seem to me to be the answer. We have seen examples of these massive failures in the communist regimes of Stalin in the The Soviet Union, Po Pot in Cambodia, Mao in China. Wherever the claim of more for all is taken up, the power seems to end up in even fewer hands. These hands are too often those of radical authoritarians.\n\nChina the most famous communist country on the planet now is in fact only like a crystal ball of State Capitalism, with a thin silk sheet of communism laid over it to obscure the crystal ball.\n\n![The Visible Hand.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXU9m3cqanNr4E91sNKnJHosFyDJqDcv6mvw27nZuGBkQ/The%20Visible%20Hand.png)\n\nIt’s actually a pretty amazing system to be a part of in the short term. One of the major problems with democracy is that you can’t get anything done. Everyone has their voice and has a say in the goings-on of the future, right down to the stodgy old hold tight who doesn’t want anything to change. The cry of N.I.M.B.Y. is rallied around by those who resist progress, yet are too old to actually be around to see the fruits of that progress\n\nChina is outsmarting The West right now by playing the capitalist game as well as it can be played. At the same time keeping the levers of power held by so few in the country that they can push through new law and regulation at a dizzying pace. \n\nA dam needs to be built, they have the money and can instantly change the zoning. A town is in the way of a waterway needed for development - they relocate the citizens and make them tear down their houses on the way out. A new system of peer-to-peer money transfer is created that threatens the countries banking system….they can ban it within weeks and block all access for it through the internet in a day.\n\n![Beijing 500.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSrvhRpjKmmuBQZ33gY4EyJv28pWyQydNk1tCW5wH6bhk/Beijing%20500.png)\n\nI am not saying that these are the right moves. Certainly it may not last many more decades as a way of governance. They are problems with it, for instance did you know that in China if your company gets to the 2BN mark, it is common practice for it to be absorbed by the government. It becomes a State Owned Enterprise…..now that clearly presents issue. What entrepreneur is going to want to build a business when they know that is in their future? If they are super successful, they have a guarantee that the government will come in and bureaucratize it from top to bottom. Not a playground for the self-sufficient at all.\n\nHowever, in the short term this dilemma is not seeming to slow anything down on China's great march to modern industrialization.\n\nSo radical inequality is likely to capsize, and radical equity is even more unstable, awful and corrupt.\n\nThis is where the idea of voluntarily redirecting a percentage of the profits down to fund new businesses and endeavours at the bottom appears out of the fog of modern capitalism to be a  little extra off the top, to be directed back down to the bottom line. The line where new businesses are created and where new economic opportunities live.\n\nThe squeaky wheel gets the grease after all...but what happens when we have too many squeaky wheels and not enough grease?\n\nDid you know that entrepreneurship in North America is at an all time low. New company formation is lower than they have been in 40 years. \n\nKevin Kelly, who is known as the oracle of the internet closed his last book by saying: That this moment, right now, is the best time ever in history to start a business. More tools, more resources, learning is free, everyone is connected, ideas are flung around the world at light speed and small businesses can access more resources than ever.\n\nSo why are less people than ever starting new businesses…..rates of entrepreneurship in The West are at an all time low. 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      "body": "#### Pt. 3 - Introduction of my idea of pursuing \"sustainability\"\n\n\nIf you’ve come to read an expert opinion on sustainable fashion or textile manufacturing, I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed. I’m no such expert. Nor do I think any exist. Very few of us around know how to build something that lasts hundreds of years, or that can be passed down generation to generation. The average lifespan of a Fortune 500 company is 30 years, and family fortunes amassed by one generation in the vast majority of cases are squandered and lost by the time of the grandchildren.\n\nCenturies or longer sustainability requires massive group effort. All of us, working together towards something. 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But are we expecting to sustain that inevitably?\n\nTo rate sustainability at all you have to relate it to something. Perhaps, a dangerous practice or method of doing business. Something with a clearly more volatile expiry.\n\nLike gambling, not a savy long term game. Fun in the short run. But then there are poker players who have figured out how to make a living. And a good living.\n\nRelative to a whole lifetime - can they keep the same profession their whole life? Does their industry go back hundreds of years and plans to go on for hundreds more?\n\nIs it like fashion or technology or food, is there no end in sight and it is forever iterating? Or is it burning through resources so fast that the prices it is sold at fluctuates daily. And we erect signs with bright lights in front of our stores to tell us what this resource costs today.\n\nPeople seem to think the Question Zero here is \"are the methods I'm using currently ones that I can continue to use and be profitable from for the foreseeable future?\"\n\nBut none of us know the conditions that are going to change our future.\n\nSo the entire thing is a game of best-guess. That’s all my business model is - it’s just my best guess at what I had a shot at making work. I looked back at the longevity of the industry of trade and saw that it has been around long enough to be embedded in our very DNA. You can't ask for more of a track record.\n\nPeople in an area do what they're best at and they trade with people from another area, who are also engaged in doing what they are best at. Apples for cloth for bronze work for spices.\n\nI also looked at the modern state of trade and consumerism and saw a clear trade imbalance in between some areas. Benefits of labor go to a disproportionate number of individuals at the top of any productive field. That is why we can have billion dollar condos sticking out from the slums in Mumbai.\n\n![Billion dollar super home.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVYJfrBBeAoSDuh6pC6ifzqPwd5pQ4inSVubYR3cWC5gz/Billion%20dollar%20super%20home.jpg)\n\nSo my best guess was that the true capitalist model mostly works, and that it is a little broken.\n\n\"True\" capitalism emerged from early trade. Once merchants had acquired sufficient wealth (referred to as 'primitive capital') to begin investing in increasingly productive technology.\n\nThis account tends to see capitalism as a natural continuation of trade, arising when people's natural entrepreneurialism was freed from the constraints of feudalism.\n\nSo if an early capitalist who was a trader for the Dutch East India Company made an additional $50,000 in a year, he would re-invest that capital by hiring someone, thereby making his business more productive and making the community better off.\n\nNow we are certainly a far way off from that in how we look at each other. We have got to reverse this idea at the base of capitalism from using humans as capital to creating people as the beneficiaries. Please listen to this two minute excerpt from Alan Watts that sums it up brilliantly. 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