You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and deal with circumstances. Some of which I was able to anticipate. Some of which caught us totally by surprise.
The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.