As I’m in a new contracting role, I’ve found myself evaluating work and what are it’s worths to my life. One of the most obvious is money. And I actually commented to someone that “I’m doing it for the cash infusion.” That’s pretty frighteningly like what might come out of an entrepreneurs mouth as he talks about taking some VC funding.That made me then think: What other types of unorthodox financing are available?We’ve heard of people maxing out their credit cards to fund their ideas. Those who inherited money from their family. But has there been any entrepreunerial women (or men) who’ve turned to the lap dance to fund their ideas?This came to mind as I’ve read where some strippers who work in Vegas don’t live there and just fly in for select weeks/weekends when certain conferences are in town. They earn enough from that short period of time to live well for the rest of the year.Why not earn enough to fund that start-up? Maybe the business has nothing to do with matters of an adult nature, but rather is a baby’s nappies estore and the spunky, go-getter mom who founded the company leaves the baby with her husband and heads to Vegas for a few weeks to bring home the bacon AND the venture financing.Would that mean that strip clubs would have to get detailed financial backgrounds on their customers? Would the SEC be following the money as it moved from the edge of the stage to the middle of the bosom (or other places too risque to go into here)?
Path of Least Resistance
Dec 15, ’05
11:54 PM
You’re at work and you’re trying to locate someone. They’re not at their desk and you’ve asked the cubicle next to them to no avail. What do you do?I bet if you did some traffic analysis (fancy term for snooping on people by pointing cameras around the office and hitting record) you could probably identify each person’s 1 or 2 most common routes through the office. That might be the path to and from the bathroom or maybe to the designated smoke area. It could also be the path to the elevator as they sneak off to starbucks every ten minutes to get their fix. Regardless of the why, you might be able to say with some degree of certainty, that if they are not at their desk, the next best place to find them is somewhere along that pathway.Now, if you actually went so far as to paint everyone’s pathways on the floor of the office, in addition to it looking funny, would it lead to a change in people’s behaviors? Would people change that route because they don’t want to feel predictable? Would they take a different route if they didn’t want to be found?