There is really too much funding being chucked around these days. Not just by the government, but by investors who are very comfortable, with jaded appetites, and who are looking for some adrenaline rush by putting their discretionary money on startups that are probably going to fail. Someone remarked recently that the CIA would probably be a lot more effective than it is now if their budget and headcount are suddenly halved. Counter-intuitive, but think about it. If you remember that old movie “Animals are beautiful people” by Jamie Uys, you will remember that the animals living in the Pre-Namib Desert possessed a greater zest for living than their cousins living in the lush basin of the Cubango River. Remember too, that Jamie Uys didn’t have the luxury of today’s video editing software. It took maybe four years of production and half a million feet of film to put it all together. John Steinbeck wrote to Adlai Stevenson “A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.” Does that sound like some startups or even some established businesses you’ve seen? It’s not the funding, and very often it’s too much funding!