Tim Colby
Tim Colby
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Informative picture of small to sustainable businesses in the new(?) economy of leveraging available tools for ongoing productivity. I’ve seen it happen. Still emphasis on handling and leveraging a marketable position favors the learned, not always but the speed of success is noticeable with the educated, not all P.H.D.s or Masters of whatever, but beneficiaries of a functioning edu system.

A rear guard action for this new gig(?) economy or if you own the business which you might think is a clever way to contract yourself, is to watch the affects/actions of more legacy big business, concerns your new business may have to deal with, entities that literally purchase regulation and law on a big pricy scale. In case individual startups have been sleeping the last decade, this is how marketing positions get produced, don’t believe this assertion? Check out your cost of doing business statistics compared to larger more established legacy businesses as a percentage of total revenue activity. This ties directly to the cost of new tools and changes in contractual costs dealing with one off production businesses in the new economy. The new curse word for me and should also be for startups and one offs is ‘subscription’ even though, as of writing this, so many if not all in the new and old economy are desperately chasing this very business model. Meaning that fixed price is an endangered economic reality of economic yesteryear, until the subscription model, re-fails and that’s not likely anytime soon.

In other words business law will be changing to feed the tax base that super large corps now benefit from more than ever, lower regulation, lower taxes that don’t necessarily benefit all business on a level playing field. It’s nothing to wake up some day to notice that your supplier contractor has suddenly changed policies, yes, ever tinkering the business plan to get more and more. Good luck with all that, but yes, the new economy is a thing, as it becomes a bigger chunk of the economic pie, new rules will come for those newbies.

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