I'd like to highlight Seth Godin's blog post about layering today, and add to it - you can spend all day tying bait, but if you don't go fishing you don't eat. Just be comfortable with the fact you won't be on the "bassmasters" tv show for your first time out...

2008 - Dreams and Reality

We aren't perfect yet, and that's one of the things I'd like to address first. When a business opens, and we celebrated our one-year recently, you have a really neat idea that eventually gets replaced by reality. Things have started to come together, and The Alliance Group isn't quite how I had envisioned it - and I'm really excited about that. We've picked up clients in industries I hadn't planned on entering, and I think there's another round of hiring to be done in a few months. So what does The Alliance Group have on tap for the first few months of 2008? You can count on an increased South American presence. You can count on vendor development, and implementing systems to ensure every vendor meets every deadline. Bottom line, you can count on counting on The Alliance Group to buy heavy machinery or transport heavy machinery anywhere in the world by 2009. Did I mention we are speaking some Portuguese now? I learned some phrases, and we're about to hire a part-time Portuguese speaker.