Hi,

Like you, I'm VERY interested in describing and understanding the ESSENCE of succeeding in business. This essence should include how to enable oneself to take action, in my opinion.

You mentioned getting the word out. EbaY has created an extremely efficient and user-friendly mechanism to match buyers and sellers.

Another part of the essence should relate to figuring out what to sell, which brings up the area of competition or market saturation.

Should business people enjoy what they do in business? That's a good question.

What we need is something like a HAL 9000 that can data mine the internet and build up a relational database 500 terabytes in size (a thousand copies of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is about 1 terabyte. 500 terabytes would be about the equivalent of a billion books).

Thanks for your reply...

Best,

- Boyd