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Startup Investing - The Impact of the Stock Market
To register, click here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/462235819 The general misery that the public markets have subjected us all to over the past 12 years - with the Dow Jones, the S & P, and the NASDAQ all trading lower today than they were in 1999, begs the question - how does stock market...
Here's Your Chance to Pitch Silicon Valley This May
A couple weeks ago, Growthink hosted the "Startup Success Secrets" expert teleseminar series. We assembled an impressive group of entrepreneurship experts, including Ken Yancey (CEO of SCORE), Ryan Allis (CEO of iContact), and Bambi Francisco of Vator.tv, among others.If you don't recall, Vator.tv is an online community that allows entrepreneurs to...
Because of the overwhelming response to our webinar last week on modern brand lessons from Mr. Tom Hicks of Naked Juice and Dr. Sears Family Essentials fame, Tom has graciously agreed to sit for a live replay of the webinar.Special Bonus CommentaryThe webinar will also feature bonus commentary from Mr....
In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead
Nothing is more important to U.S. consumers than their entertainment choices, but are movies and broadcast TV even relevant in the new world of entertainment?Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs?Is it a...
Why Money Can In Fact Grow on Trees
Last night at dinner, as my kids were saying "I want this" and "I want that," I said something that you should never tell your kids.What did I say?I said, "you know, money doesn't grow on trees."Why is this so bad?Well the goal of my saying this was to try...
Improve Employee Productivity: An Interview with Ken Lodi on The Bamboo Principle
This is pretty amazing. After being planted, timber bamboo plants are hardly noticeable above the ground for nearly four years. But once their roots are fully formed around the four-year mark, they can grow a remarkable 80 feet in just six weeks.The key to their amazing growth is their extremely...
Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories
This is disturbing on several levels. No, I don’t know Joel Spolsky but I feel like I do because I’ve been reading his work for years. He’s not just an expert on software development, he’s a very good writer and thinker. I’ve quoted him a lot. So what’s disturbing? In Let’s...
10 Good Market Motivators (and 3 Not So Good)
A smart person I trust told me that lists of 5 or 10 points do better in readership than lists of any other number. Strange, I suppose, but I can work with it. So I’ve taken 13 Ways to Instantly Motivate Your Target Market by Alex Mathers of Red Lemon...
One Way Not to Market Your Expertise
Is this you? Are you trying to sell yourself as a consultant by sending general messages to people (or companies) you don’t know? Promising to solve whatever problems they have? I don’t dislike this person. I just feel sorry for the enormous waste of time and effort spent in the wrong...
5-Step Late-Business-Meeting Recovery Plan
It seems so simple: punctuality is a matter of respecting other people’s time. Be on time for meetings and appointments. This is obvious. Right? Still, in many organizations it’s a cascading problem. Lag times creep up from five to 10 to 15 minutes. People hang back, composing one more email, because...
Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers
It happens way too often: entrepreneurs proud of some huge completely unattainable market numbers. They show us billions of dollars. They think that’s a good thing, like it’s important. I hate it. As an investor, as a business plan contest judge, or as a teacher, I don’t really care how many...
Celebrities Save Which Endangered Species?
Much like global climate and habitat change threatens giant pandas and black rhinos, global socio-economic and technological change threatens writers. Print media outlets are slowly dying, literacy is gradually declining, and the book business is shrinking. Animals are threatened by global warming, and writers by global dumbing. So I guess I’m...
Startup Daddy Home Business Development
Stop Apologizing for Being In Business.
If you’re like a lot of small businesses and freelancers, you get paid for what you know. You may be a consultant, or a designer, or an accountant (or you may want to be), but in the end, people pay you because you know more about X than they do. ...
Grass Roots Marketing Is Alive and Well and Working
I participated in Podcamp Toronto this weekend, and I was thinking about how to share my experience with you in a way that would benefit you most. So I won’t post the slides from my presentation, and I’m not going to write about how attending and presenting at conferences is...
Creating A Professional Presence On Social Media Sites
In this episode of Startup Daddy I talk about creating a professional looking presence on social media sites like Facebook and Youtube. Facebook has over 400 million active users. More than half log in every day and the average user spends about an hour per day there. See why you...
From Idea To Company In 7 Days
In this episode of Startup Daddy I talk about my new company, Memory Deck. I hope that by talking about the process I’m going through as I start this new company, you will see that you can do it too. While my partner and I have been researching and planning this...
I Wrote On Dad-O-Matic Today About Talking To My Daughter About Haiti
I wrote a post for Dad-O-Matic about talking to our 6 year old about the earthquake in Haiti, and all of the horrific images she catches on TV now and then. It’s never easy to talk to your kids about death and tragedy but it’s important. It’s not the usual...
I’m Taking A Mulligan For 2009
I’m taking a mulligan for 2009. In golf, a mulligan is when you hit the ball poorly, into the woods or a lake, or five feet in front of you, and you want a do over. I know a lot about mulligans. I was inspired by CC Chapman, who had...
The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp
With every startup or small business, one of the first steps is to assemble a board of directors. This group of people oversees or directs the activities of a company, usually offering guidance, strategic planning and laying a framework for the future of the organization. The same can be true for...
Small Business Tip of the Week: Move Up or Move Out!
Instead of spring cleaning this year, why not consider moving to a new space? An article in the Wall Street Journal last month highlighted how different small business owners have been able to find prime commercial real estate that has increased traffic flow and added more physical space to their...
In today’s generation of business, more often than not we see business professionals walking around with backpacks on their way to meetings or conferences. Why is that? I thought backpacks were for students or the occasional crazy professor. Now, it seems that backpacks in the work environment are not only...
In today’s generation of business, more often than not we see business professionals walking around with backpacks on their way to meetings or conferences. Why is that? I thought backpacks were for students or the occasional crazy professor. Now, it seems that backpacks in the work environment are not only...
Life After Death- How to Move Forward When Your Business Doesn’t
It’s a beautiful spring day, and the neighbor’s little boy is outside learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time. As you continue to watch, you see this boy fall off his bike time after time, often resulting in scratched knees or tears of frustration. But each time,...
Life After Death- How to Move Forward When Your Business Doesn’t
It’s a beautiful spring day, and the neighbor’s little boy is outside learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time. As you continue to watch, you see this boy fall off his bike time after time, often resulting in scratched knees or tears of frustration. But each time,...
47 Hats
Community News: Pretty quiet out there… Interesting Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers: What would you do different if your startup was launching today? Does having a professional email account matter? SEO: Where can I get reliable information about building my website presence and reputation? News/posts for microISVs and Startups: Want to know how to find your customers?...
Stop hitting your Invisible Wall.
The Invisible Wall stopped you creating your startup today. That damn wall stands between you and what you know you can create. That wall you hit, that something, that changes you into a totally unmotivated blob. Why, when you know you should be motivated to write the code, go to the...
(Various short items in the Startup/MicroISV world I’ve bumped into this week, paying homage to Herb Caen, the best damn reason to read a San Francisco newspaper, when people still read newspapers.) … Over at A Smart Bear, Mike Schoeffler, founder of iPhone running application Roadbud has an excellent column about Startup...
The 10,000 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories
Dharmesh Shah has a great post up today at OnStartups: The 10 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories. I won’t steal his punchline by quoting all ten here, but the first 5 are: Project Management / Time Tracking / Bug Tracking Community / Discussion Forums Personalized News Aggregation/Filtering Content Management (website, blog) Social Voting and Reviews These...
Community News: Mike Schoeffler, roadbud.com: the right three words could win you a top-of-the-line iPhone. Mike is running a contest to find a great tagline for his new iPhone app coming out March 1st – details here. David Christian, Bright Spark Software, SimpleGlucose is trying an experiment, switching to the ‘freemium’ model:...
The secret to succeeding for startups: from Seth Godin’s lips to your ears.
How to overcome the resistance to shipping your product, why doing an app to spec isn’t enough anymore, why Steve Jobs is an artist and so are you, and lot more in this week’s the Startup Success Podcast (iTunes) with author Seth Godin. Pat and I had the great pleasure...
Inc.com
Why You Should Make Privacy a Priority
How you are seen to protect your customers' personal information can have a huge effect on your brand – and your bottom line, according to a new report. Security researcher Ponemon Institute released its list of the "Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy", based on a survey of 6,627 US...
iPhone apps that will help you get through conference season. For the small business owner or entrepreneur, springtime often equates to conference season. From booking flights and accommodations, to finding out what's going on in the local area, there are plenty of apps that will ease your stress, Mashable reports....
Social Media Trends Among IT Workers
A survey of over 3,000 IT professionals recently showed that they consume more social media content than other types (editorial, vendor) and that they consider this to be a good method not only for staying informed, but for networking with peers as well. According to the study, IT professionals at...
Tips On Streamlining Accounts Payable
If you're feeling bogged down by the busywork of tracking bills and payments, or if you've found yourself being a less-than-ideal client to your providers, then there's a good chance your accounts payable system isn't up to snuff. For businesses in their early years, often a trusty Excel file and...
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How to Make Money on iPhone Apps
How many times has a friend showed you his or her favorite new iPhone app, and you lamented: Why didn't I think of that?With total application downloads from Apple's iTunes app store topping three billion, and monthly sales of upwards of $200 million, the marketplace for apps is booming. If...
The Product Guy
Understanding online relationships can begin with a closer look at Modular Innovation & Redundancy. A good example of Partial Redundancy is Picnik....
From Product Focus to the Enticements of Color
This weekend, design remotely, forget about the technology, be dazzled by online colors, and prepare for the (potentially) coming virtual states of modular innovation....
The Product Group: Products, Postabon, and Product People & A Seriously Great April!
Thank you to everyone who attended February's meeting of The Product Group (sponsored by Balsamiq Studios and Ryma Technology Solutions) where we discussed: Featured Product, Postabon (challenges, successes, and brainstormed solutions) and Product Management & Politics (scenarios and solutions), and more....
Redundancy: Just a Ping.fm Away
Understanding online relationships can begin with a closer look at Modular Innovation & Redundancy. A good example of Comprehensive Redundancy is Ping.fm....
From Remote Collaboration to the Passwords of Modular Innovation
This weekend, design remotely, debate the future utility of wireframes, and peak at the passwords of modular innovation....
Quick-MI and the Redundancy of Interoperability
Today, Modular Innovation is a prevailing trend that can be described as products and platforms consisting of or facilitating Relationships. Understanding these relationships can begin with a closer look at Interoperability and the sub-category of Redundancy....
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StartupGuru: Free chat with an expert for family caregivers at www.toghers.com
StartupGuru: Free chat with an expert for family caregivers at www.toghers.com...
StartupGuru: Free entrepreneur funding pitch event Oct 14th in Boulder, 6PM. 6 Companies, investor panel and lots of networking. http://bit.ly/1HeLWz...
StartupGuru: Great tech focused social and sustainable meetup in Boulder on Sept 23rd, 6PM. Featuring IBM and Rally Software. http://tinyurl.com/pwy7jr...
StartupGuru: For 20 yrs entrepreneurs have had access to credit, jobs & a boom in either the stock market or housing to pull cash. Now what? Crowdcapital...
StartupGuru: Looking for a business partner/friend with integrity to join Startup Guru- http://www.startupguru.com/jobs_32.html...
StartupGuru: From Scott Shane- annually about 750 startups get VC funding. Say 50% are in the valley, are you really going to get VC money?...
SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs
When you go social, be sure to join the right clique
Not all social-media services are created equal. -More- ...
Bargain hunting becomes a pack sport
Venture capitalists seem to think "group buying" is the next big thing in e-commerce, and they're pouring tens of millions of -More- ...
Three bankers offer their take on the state of small-business lending, and advise marketing yourself at the bank. -More- ...
80% of entrepreneurship education and training is provided through formal channels such as primary- and secondary-level schoo -More- ...
13 questions for would-be billionaires
Not everyone is cut out to be Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon who was named by Forbes as the world's richest man, but three p -More- ...
Consistency is key to effective rules
Good leaders must be able to set rules and be consistent in implementing them, even when doing so may feel silly or rude. -More- ...
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
This week, I’m unveiling the new I Will Teach You To Be Rich course to earn more money
This week, I'll unveil the I Will Teach You To Be Rich course on earning more money....
Recap of the 3-week course on earning money
Recap of the 3-week course on earning more money, with lots of juicy links....
Want to earn more money? How to find your first 3 paying clients
Today, we cover a detailed approach for getting your first 3 paying clients: Locate and communicate. See why people waste their time on fancy (but useless) marketing strategies instead of going STRAIGHT TO THE PEOPLE WHO'LL PAY THEM. I also get mad and rant about things that make me angry....
I’m giving a talk at Google tomorrow & I need your help
One of my dreams has been to give an Authors@Google talk because they have the perfect audience of smart, ambitious people that I want on this site. Tomorrow, finally, I'll be giving an Authors@Google talk! And now I want to ask for your help....
Psychological tactics to earn more (video)
Starting today, I'm releasing a sneak preview of a new project that's going live soon. Code name Earn1k....
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ramit: Sold out of books at the book signing!
ramit: Sold out of books at the book signing!...
ramit: Getting ready for my 11am #sxsw talk on the "Psychology of Building a Bulletproof Personal Finance System" - http://bit.ly/dhEInt...
ramit: What I'll cover at SXSW (10/10): Which SPECIFIC accounts/tools can u use to automate your $ in a few days? http://bit.ly/dhEInt #iwillteach...
ramit: What I'll cover at SXSW (9/10): How are personal finance & food similar? (Guilt, delusions of willpower..) http://bit.ly/dhEInt #iwillteach...
ramit: What I'll cover at SXSW (8/10): Why do "experts" recommend cutting costs on evrything when it never works? http://bit.ly/dhEInt #iwillteach...
ramit: Haha, @k00kykelly asks "What do you get out of a packed house at SXSW? (besides the ego boost)" Heh I think that ship has sailed...
The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Why Grow? and Other Wisdom from 37Signals
The path to profitability doesn’t need to be complicated. (Photo: El Photopakismo) I’ve known the guys at 37Signals for a little while. I first met Jason Fried at SXSW in 2008, and I then got to know David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) over e-mail and in person last year. On...
5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home
Rolf Potts is one of my favorite writers, and his book Vagabonding was one of only four books I recommended as “fundamental” in The 4-Hour Workweek. It was also one of two books, the other being...
Random Episode 8 – 2010 Resolutions with Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss
This new, long overdue Random episode covers our personal resolutions–personal, business, physical, and otherwise–as well as favorite recent gifts (both given and received). The video is recorded on two cameras, including Glenn’s new experimental HD delight. Topics include: - Chocolate - Powerlifting - Filtering false friends - Funny hats - The art of the...
The First Time Online – Enjoy While You Can
Most of you have never seen this. I really hope you enjoy it. To download, just sign into Vimeo and you’re set. If you Final Cut it up, please set to a Crystal Method or Sevendust soundtrack :) In other breaking news: I need only 120 more Amazon reviews...
Thank You, Facebook Bankruptcy, and Late Christmas Presents
(Photo: source) Thank you… Thank you… Thank you! The last two blog posts have moved me more than any others, and the new expanded 4-Hour Workweek has hit #4 on The New York Times bestseller list and #3 on the USA Today Money list! In a future post, I will explain exactly what I did...
Xconomy
Alliance of Angels Director: 2010 Is “A Great Time To Be Starting Something”
Angels have been in the air lately—especially around the Northwest. Last month, Atlas Accelerator hosted what might have been the largest-ever gathering of active angel investors in Seattle, at its first investor open house. Wings, a new angel group to invest in medical devices and software, has gotten started....
Great Expectations Along the Columbia River, as PNNL Reels In Big Energy Problems
There’s a billion-dollar-a-year research operation in the middle of Washington state, with 4,600 staff, working on some of the biggest energy challenges in the world. Yet very few of the locals know a thing about it. And while it hasn’t solved the world’s energy woes, people should start counting on...
Olympia: Don’t Crush Biotech With New Taxes
Washington’s economy is showing signs of recovery. But some major problems persist—unemployment is stuck at a historic high and healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. The biotechnology industry can help alleviate both these problems. Washington is already a major hub of new biotech research and products. Boosting this sector will deliver our...
ActiveTrak Funded by ProtectCell
Portland, OR-based ActiveTrak, a maker of software that helps consumers recover lost or stolen laptops and mobile phones, announced this week it has raised its first round of funding, led by strategic investor ProtectCell, a mobile security and insurance firm based in Michigan. The investment is $500,000, as reported by...
San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND) said today that its partner, GlaxoSmithKline, has won clearance to start marketing a new drug for a platelet deficiency in Europe. The treatment, eltrombopag (Revolade), is for patients for idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), a rare bleeding disorder in which the immune system attacks platelet...
Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader, Talks Healthcare Reform (but Not Health IT)
On Wednesday morning, I stopped by the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle to hear Tom Daschle, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota, give the keynote talk at the 10th annual “Breakfast with Champions” fundraiser, organized by the King County Bar Foundation. His main focus: healthcare reform. I don’t...
The Entrepreneurial MD
Physician business owners - find (or create!) happiness at work
I've long been a fan of Professor Srikumar Rao, the author of "Are You Ready for Success?" (reviewed here) and the soon to be released "Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What". I love the measured calm and reassurance of his written voice as he...
How to ensure your idea for an entrepreneurial physician business idea doesn't suck!
Doctors are full of ideas for businesses. It must be all that frustrated creativity manifesting in the shower! Not all of these ideas, however, will make for a sound entrepreneurial physician business. So how then do you know whether your idea is any good? The Harvard Business Review Newsletter has a few tips...
Apple customer service provides lessons for physician business owners
An email exchange last week with an Apple customer service staff member about an iTunes account problem provided me with enough fodder to acknowledge just how impressive a company Apple is when you dig behind the perfect design of their products (despite my Android phone!). This excerpt from the first reply...
5 steps to creating your first entrepreneurial physician information product
The Entrepreneurial MD Newsletter's article for March is about as pragmatic as one can get! It's devoted to answering a question I'm frequently asked by my physician (and non-physician) coaching clients: "If I want to create an information product to sell (or to use as a marketing tool), how do I...
Two tasty morsels for your physician business
Two emails came across my desk yesterday, each with part 1 of a 5-part series that I thought you'd find valuable as you look to ways to form, and succeed at, your entrepreneurial physician venture or medical practice. The first is article 1, "Forming a Sole Proprietorship" in a 5-weekly series...
Why your physician business website matters!
Since I am now maintaining two blogs, I thought I'd share an article from my Physician Website Secrets Blog today on the Top 10 reasons for a first class medical practice website. [By the way, you'll find a number of short educational videos on the site, teaching about ways to create...
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit
Feedback from Our Readers: NextBillion Readers' Survey
Authored by: Maria ZhengDear NextBillion Reader: Since 2005, NextBillion has strived to provide news, analysis and information on the "base of the pyramid" (BoP) sector. We are now the most-visited BoP site on the web, with more than 40,000 unique visitors per month- thanks to you. And we don't want to...
Weekly Roundup: Focus on Children, Early and Often
Authored by: Nathan Wyeth This week, we welcomed four new people to the NextBillion team: Maria Zheng, Andrew Eder, Bryan Farris, and Adeena Schlussel. Watch for their contributions and insights! This week, staff writers took new looks at how enterprises can intervene in education and early childhood to create new security and prosperity...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: KEJob Location: Western Kenya (English required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs,...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: RWJob Location: Southwest Rwanda (French required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing,...
Internships - Decision and Policy Analysis Program
Organization: Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)Location: Cali, CO Opportunity for internships and jobs for recent graduates to gain international experience The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is seeking English speaking recent graduates for 6-12 month internships. CIAT is an international research center, one...
Staff Update: New Additions to the NextBillion Team
Authored by: Francisco NogueraThe last few weeks have been unusually busy at NextBillion. You've seen several new names, topics discussed, and the diversity of perspectives represented in our pages continues to expand. Moreover, the site's managing partners (Acumen Fund, WDI and WRI) recently met for a planning session where we...
crowdSPRING Blog
Nice to see Chicago’s WGN talk about crowdSPRING in their news segment last night (at 0:55 of the video). Big thanks to @maltier for letting us know about WGN’s story about crowdSPRING....
Later today begins a new day at crowdSPRING and a new approach to our community. When we launched in May of 2008, we offered buyers a simple guarantee, and made an equally simple promise to creatives. We guaranteed “25 entries or your money back” and promised creatives that when a...
Twitter Link Roundup #31 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that...
U.S. Government Embraces Crowdsourcing
The White House has embraced crowdsourcing, urging federal agencies in a memo issued on March 8, 2010 to use challenges and prizes to crowdsource innovative approaches to governmental initiatives and programs. Within the next 120 days, the administration will release a web-based platform to manage the government’s crowdsourcing efforts. Some of...
12 Questions: Meet Bryan Blue S. Cuevas (Philippines)
In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that...
5 thoughts for startups and small business: numbers count
Photo: tifotter Einstein famously said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” while Count Von Count (pictured above) said “That’s TWO! Two worried frogs! Ha ha ha ha!” Einstein was right in so many ways, but I believe that in the context of...
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Making Organic Structure Visible
Originally posted in The Technium Science is forever trying to model nature. By simplifying its complexity, or extracting its structures into new modes, science can begin to understand how living things work. One clever way to study biology...
And what could be more industrial-age...
Originally posted in New Rules ...than automobiles? Yet, chips and networks can take the industrial age out of cars, too. Most of the energy a car consumes is used to move the car itself, not the passenger. So...
Originally posted in The Technium One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code. That day is now here. Exhibit...
Bit by bit, the logic of the network...
Originally posted in New Rules ...will overtake every atom we deal with. The logic of the network will spread from its base in silicon chips, to infiltrate steel, plywood, chemical dyes, and potato chips. All manufacturing, whether seeded with...
The wholesale migration from mass to bits...
Originally posted in New Rules ...began with the arrival of computer chips. This subtle disembodiment was first viewed as a unique dynamic of the high-tech corridors of Silicon Valley. Software was so strange--part body, part spirit--that nobody was...
Originally posted in The Technium This clip of vocal cords singing a harmony will certainly make the rounds on the tubes. To film it required a fiber optic camera that goes up the nose and then down the...