http://exeedtechnology.com/subprime-mortgage-crisis-and-startups Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:10:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://exeedtechnology.com/subprime-mortgage-crisis-and-startups/comment-page-1#comment-74 Alastair Bathgate Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:17:35 +0000 http://exeedtechnology.com/subprime-mortgage-crisis-and-startups#comment-74 Unless your product plays into this "downturn" environment. E.g. it enables costs to be cut quickly, incrementally, and payback is within the budget cycle. UK banks, for example, are focussed on short term cost income ratios so are very sensitive to large investments that take time to deliver the upside. No matter how large that upside may be, if the benefit trails the investment by much it will not be liked. Unless your product plays into this “downturn” environment. E.g. it enables costs to be cut quickly, incrementally, and payback is within the budget cycle.
UK banks, for example, are focussed on short term cost income ratios so are very sensitive to large investments that take time to deliver the upside. No matter how large that upside may be, if the benefit trails the investment by much it will not be liked.

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