design at distance...the blog: 5/20/12

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Weekend reading, "North America through the eyes of a European"

Episode 20: What next?

For those of you who have been following our story to date, you'll know that we were facing a classical problem in our business: financing. It's a pretty "normal" problem in the life of a business, and I have to admit it's one we'd met before,, and conquered with little problem. This time however, the circumstances were...a little different to say the least!

Our last business venture had been funded in Europe, before the famous "credit crunch" that touched the lives of so many people, across so many countries. Our personal, and business standing allowed the banks to give us the go-ahead for a project worth in excess of 1.3 million Euros.
No partners were needed, and non were sought. We'd always "done it alone" simply because we'd always been able to. But today's situation was different...