I took the silver bullets as mostly being just technical, e.g., for how to get the Web server software at least five times faster. But, yes, some of the 'optio

I took the silver bullets as mostly being just technical, e.g., for how to get the Web server software at least five times faster. But, yes, some of the 'options' considered did not want to attack the software performance so directly and wanted to do something like 'pivot'. Maybe an idea for a pivot could be a silver bullet -- maybe. That is, I didn't see pivots, strategy, or routine business execution or building a fire under the sales and service groups, although these can be crucial, as candidates for silver bullets. On "guts", for a lot of entrepreneurs, they know as they start that if they fail it will cost them their savings, house, car, credit rating, likely damage their career, and maybe hurt their marriage and health. So such a person can't be short on "guts". And unexpected disasters, such as Microsoft's five times faster IIS, can pop up needing guts. Still, one major source of needing guts is vast projects with half-vast planning. Or just poor projects. Hopefully with good projects with good planning, with some silver bullets in the crucial, core technology, the need for guts and "to stick with execution when it's needed" will be much lower than usually assumed. On "guts", entrepreneurs short on guts would not even have started.