While big companies deliberate, small companies obliterate.

Although this primarily applies to tech companies, think what Google in its early days did to Altavista, the same could potentially be said of the disruptive potential of the likes of Skype on mainstream telecoms companies.

While I don’t subscribe to the view that the news print media are doomed in the medium term, there are already examples of small citizen-based media outlets such as Agora Vox, that could cause serious problems for readership of dead tree newspapers.

These days small and fast is so much faster thanks to broadband internet connections. Small, smart businesses really do have the chance to become global microbrands.