100 Young Entrepreneurs sat in a room

All 100 were asked to come up with a business plan. They were asked for all inputs on the cost side but to leave revenue projections blank initially. All the costs you would typically see in a business were included; PP&E, utilities, employees, insurance, licenses, taxes, travel etc.
At the end of the exercise all 100 were shown a chart of the $/Yen as shown below.

They were then told to show revenue projections for their product using the last twenty years of this chart. In other words, where they would be able to sell their product at any point was 100% dictated by where this currency cross would be one, day, one month, one year, five years and ten years from now.

This post was published at GoldSeek on 5 November 2014.