Frank Contrepois

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How much is 1 percent of GDP?

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Politician will often hide numbers behind percents of GDP. But how much is 1% of GDP? Let’s see From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) 1% of the USA GDP is 214.39 BILLIONS dollars 1% of the UK GDP is 27.44 BILLIONS dollars 1% of France GDP is 27.07 BILLIONS dollars 1% of Italy GDP is 19.89 BILLIONS dollars Position Country in Million with all the zeros 1% in Billions 1 United States $21,439,453 $21,439,453,000,000 $214,394,530,000 $214. Read more...

Never stop searching for better solutions

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When I search for my keys, they will always be in the last place I search. That is normal, continuing to search for my keys after finding them is stupid. But with solutions and ideas, it is more complicated. Sometimes a solution is good enough, and people will stop searching for a better way, and that is wrong. Most innovations are based on searching for better ways. To make things worst, innovation will send the previous way out-of-business, so not only the new way needs to be good, but the marketing of needs to be stellar. Read more...

Wardley Maps interesting ideas by @WardleyMaps

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My previous article Mapping is not the important part of Wardley maps got the attention of Chris Daniel is the person behind @wardleymaps and @lefep. He helps CXO (and the rest of the world) use Wardley Maps. In military, on the level of a team, the situation may look like you have described. It is a map and quite standardised approaches. But when you think about larger operations (D-Day from the perspective of Nazis), the fact that you observe enemy ships does not mean they are about to land. Read more...

Bank Holiday... really!?

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Disclaimer: this is only a funny thought, nothing to be offended about (if you are a banker) Based on etymonline.com holiday origins is Holy + Day but in the UK we talk about Bank Holidays So questions: how did banks manage to be involved also in religion? how did banks manage to change the dates of the religious festivities in the UK? Write your further questions and fun answers in the comments. Read more...

How to be a very cheap investor

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If you are a startup founder of planning to become one, I highly recommend you to start investing in other startups. It is the best way to understand how startup work from the investor point of view. But how a founder, already putting all his/her savings (maybe even parents’ savings too) can become the investor of others. Well it is simple, you can use sites like seedrs to invest from as little as £10 per company. Read more...

Simpler publishing calendar for frankcontrepois.com

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This week I was ready to publish 3 technical articles. But that would be too much in one go and many non-tech people would just stop reading. So I’ve decide to make to changes to simplify my blog life: I will only write about: Fun stuff on Monday Tech stuff on Tuesday People stuff on Wednesday Simple stuff on Thursday Money stuff on Friday nothing on days I do not work (i. Read more...

Do you know the 23 types of discounts?

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Some day ago I was creating a Wardley Map of Strategic Blue’s offering and as we care only about money and cloud, discounts are part of my map. So I searched online for the different types of discounts available, to them map them to what is already available from cloud vendors. I was expecting 5-7 types of discounts, I found 23, here is the list Financial discounts Commitment discounts Volume discounts Contractual discounts Buy 1 get 1 Early pay Free shipping Industry (or vertical ) discounts Order specific Seasonal Trade discount (like reseller discount) Cash discount Client specific Geographical Promotional Pre-launch Early birds Cross-sell Upsell Production discounts Customer characteristics Age related discounts Coupon (and discount card) I just discovered that wikipedia has a longer list https://en. Read more...

When stats lie - inspired by SuperFreakonomics

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Beware of stats, or at least take them with a ton of salt. Based on stats on average each humans have one breast and one testicle do not go to bed, most people die in one same with hospital, this is where sick people meet even worst most people die in a bed in an hospital, so never sleep in a hospital based on this and this wikipedia article we could deduce that humans expire at 105. Read more...

A year from now... - Seth Godin

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A copy of Seth Godin post of the 2019-11-02 Will today’s emergency even be remembered? Will that thing you’re particularly anxious about have been hardly worth the time you put into it? Better question: What could you do today that would matter a year from now? Read more...