Simon wrote:
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Jay, with due respect, haven't other competitions also reached this place following the same route that you took. Don't others know mathematics.

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ANSWER: No.

I chose to compete in a market where my competition is not very brainy, don't know that brainy people could improve their situation, and can't afford brainy help mostly because they can't identify it and secondly because they are convinced they never needed it before.
They have been providing non-brainy solutions to an unnoticed market niche that have been profitable to them for many years. They can't handle the new technology and methodologies.

After getting my MBA I realized that I was making a career mistake due to my engineering thinking. I always wanted to compete against the best to prove my own capabilities. This is a terrible business strategy and so I rethought my goals and found a better market.

All the guys that could be solving the design problems in my market, are working for big companies doing projects they can't talk about and competing against another equal set of smart guys. Nothing is dumber than spending all your brain power competing against other smart people... you negate each others' market advantages... only the customer wins.

Latif, the competitive advantage we have is not just mathematicians, it takes expertise in three areas of knowledge to accomplish our solution. Without all three, you can't see the solution. I personally have all three knowledge bases.

aka j