The banks got billions of TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program) dollars over the past 9 months. And now, the Small Business Administration has announced that TARP dollars will start flowing through to small businesses across the country.

Each small business that has suffered "Economic Injury due to the Recession" is eligible for this "disaster relief" just by filling out a few simple forms at the local bank. $35,000 is waiting for your business if it made money in one of the last two years and if you have bills piled up this year due to the slowdown.

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We've all gotten used to the logic put out by some of the brilliant marketing people in Corporate America that their companies are too big to fail. In fact they're so big that their failure might cause a ripple through the United States and the World economies that we might not be able to recover from. This logic has gotten these companies tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars. This marketing logic has cost taxpayers enormously.

As an advocate of entrepreneurial companies, I ask this as a follow up question: if you are too big to fail, are you too big to be in business? These companies that are so big have nearly monopolistic control of their industries. The companies that are too big to fail have so much control and domination that it's nearly impossible and certainly unfair for smaller entrepreneurial companies to have any chance of competing with them, if not against them.

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I normally don't get terribly philosophical, but today is one of those days that I'm thinking about my life and my business in a new way. I consider today to be the first day of my new life and of a series of new opportunities. I want to consider things in a new way and try things that I hadn't tried before. In a certain way, it's like January 1st, only this time it's not about resolutions — it's really about being open-minded and taking a new direction for my life.

It doesn't hurt that it's also my birthday. But, today helps me to think about all the new things that I can do to make my life exactly the way that I want it. This economy has caused all of us at Growth-Logic to think in a new way. It's caused everyone on my team to regroup and be more focused on things that are relevant to us. We're more focused on the specific kinds of seminars that are relevant to our audience. We're more focused on doing asset based transactions, and getting involved in the deal business. I am going back to the roots of my training. 

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In the heat of baseball season, I cannot help but to derive a few metaphors from my favorite sport.

It is said that in baseball pitching is 75 to 90 percent of the game. Pitching is defensive, but you cannot win a baseball game with 90 percent excellence in pitching. You also have to have good offense because offense is what puts runs on the board and dollars in the bank. And consequently, it is the focus on the offense that Growth-Logic uses to drive its strategies. This is not to diminish the importance of a defense or operational administrative posture, but it is our orientation to focus on the business, and not just on its operation and efficiency. 

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