I’ve been contemplating this myself. Our business is in Oil/Gas/chemical processing etc. I currently live in south Florida migrated from my home country during covid. Florida was where my family/friend network live and needed that during covid.
Children are now settled in Fl and it’d be unfair to move them again. I’m going to treat it as my offshore rotation as I did in my bp days. Kids are grown up teenagers now.
Thanks for the comment Neil. Where did you do your offshore BP stint? I had a bunch of friends that worked offshore in the gulf. Good money but not easy on marriages.
This deserves to be more than a blog post: a quiz format, maybe? I was just thinking about this in regards to a company in Texas and wondering why they didn't move to to Maine where they would have gotten 30% more for their money via incentives. TBF, I don't know that Texas didn't give them money, but Insurance companies (imho) have more implied gravitas with the Maine label. Can your test also account for sentiment?
An observation, if I may. Second order thinking requires not believing the first thing you hear/think etc about something or someone. The level of dismissiveness on Substack is truly breathtaking. So far, all I have encountered are a bunch of people who are convinced they are smarter than everyone else, yet are seemingly stuck in patterns of rudeness and holier-than-thou behavior that really doesn't serve them. I am not angry...because it feels like being angry with a toddler. But before you buy into some negativity about someone, think hard about how you'd feel if it was happening to you and adjust your behavior accordingly. It doesn't matter to me, but it may matter very much to someone else.
MR.TODD, Cofounder of Famous Startup Consultancy Firm WILDFIRE LABS,does it again. MR.TODD creates “ A UNIQUE Startup Location Strategy that fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from real life stories including of founder developing compliance software for maritime shipping in Kansas, the framework relies on MR.TODD’s Exclusive—“the 7-question audit”.
MR.TODD’s Various Deep Insights including—Use Map your domain knowledge, customer concentration, and burn rate etc—are a must for every startup whether at an idea level or at matured level.
After all it’s Make or Break for a Startup to introspect —Whether Am I in the right place for the next 12 months — or am I just here because I began here?
MR.TODD’s WISE WORDS —The companies that win this decade won’t be in the “right” cities. They’ll be the ones who chose their geography as thoughtfully as their market—💯resonate with me and I’m going to share MR.TODD’s Wisdom Pearls in my circle.
Looking forward to many more such LIFE-ALTERING Strategies from MR.TODD.
I’ve been contemplating this myself. Our business is in Oil/Gas/chemical processing etc. I currently live in south Florida migrated from my home country during covid. Florida was where my family/friend network live and needed that during covid.
Children are now settled in Fl and it’d be unfair to move them again. I’m going to treat it as my offshore rotation as I did in my bp days. Kids are grown up teenagers now.
Did mostly onshore operations but did 2 years offshore.
Thanks for the comment Neil. Where did you do your offshore BP stint? I had a bunch of friends that worked offshore in the gulf. Good money but not easy on marriages.
bp Trinidad.
This deserves to be more than a blog post: a quiz format, maybe? I was just thinking about this in regards to a company in Texas and wondering why they didn't move to to Maine where they would have gotten 30% more for their money via incentives. TBF, I don't know that Texas didn't give them money, but Insurance companies (imho) have more implied gravitas with the Maine label. Can your test also account for sentiment?
It could. I didn't think about that as I was writing it but interesting point. Appreciate the comment...
No worries. Off-topic question: is Wildfire Labs working on the ID vaults article...or capable of consulting with a company on same?
Thank you.
An observation, if I may. Second order thinking requires not believing the first thing you hear/think etc about something or someone. The level of dismissiveness on Substack is truly breathtaking. So far, all I have encountered are a bunch of people who are convinced they are smarter than everyone else, yet are seemingly stuck in patterns of rudeness and holier-than-thou behavior that really doesn't serve them. I am not angry...because it feels like being angry with a toddler. But before you buy into some negativity about someone, think hard about how you'd feel if it was happening to you and adjust your behavior accordingly. It doesn't matter to me, but it may matter very much to someone else.
MR.TODD, Cofounder of Famous Startup Consultancy Firm WILDFIRE LABS,does it again. MR.TODD creates “ A UNIQUE Startup Location Strategy that fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from real life stories including of founder developing compliance software for maritime shipping in Kansas, the framework relies on MR.TODD’s Exclusive—“the 7-question audit”.
MR.TODD’s Various Deep Insights including—Use Map your domain knowledge, customer concentration, and burn rate etc—are a must for every startup whether at an idea level or at matured level.
After all it’s Make or Break for a Startup to introspect —Whether Am I in the right place for the next 12 months — or am I just here because I began here?
MR.TODD’s WISE WORDS —The companies that win this decade won’t be in the “right” cities. They’ll be the ones who chose their geography as thoughtfully as their market—💯resonate with me and I’m going to share MR.TODD’s Wisdom Pearls in my circle.
Looking forward to many more such LIFE-ALTERING Strategies from MR.TODD.