Sometimes you get lucky and stumble upon great people and companies by accident. I sure did during my first weeks in Cambodia. Walking along the Riverside (the neighborhood I call home) I strolled into a silk garment shop to check out their local wares. The General Manager, Laurence Karatau and I immediately struck up a [...]
December 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
A Revolution in Agriculture – Part I
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week you know that the three of us like agriculture. The world has structural issues with the food supply which won’t disappear soon. The age of farmers is ticking ever-higher, with average ages in the United States, Great Britain and Canada approaching 60, 60 and [...]
November 8, 2012 By 5 Comments
Profiting in Paradise
While Mark and Chris are up to their necks in salt water and coconuts at the Fiji Meet-up, I wanted to discuss an interesting opportunity in Fijian tourism. No, I’m not going to babble on about gorgeous scenery and warm water whereby those who start a tourism company will bloat with wealth. I would rather [...]
October 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The “Informal Economy” – Makeshift
Today’s post comes to us from our on-the-ground man in SE Asia, Scott. You may remember Scott, who is now an integral part of our team, from his post Why I Ditched California for Mongolia. Before Scott left for Asia earlier this year he met an interesting guy. I’ll let him continue… ——– I met [...]
July 6, 2012 By 7 Comments
To Entrepreneur – Or Not..?
I haven’t kept very close track, but Mark and I have now been running this website for nearly 2 years. For readers who’ve been with us for any length of time it should be clear what we do with our spare time. OK, scrap that, it should be clear what we do with our time. [...]
June 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Why I Ditched California for Mongolia
A few months back Chris and I were fortunate enough to meet a young man named Scott. Scott was about to graduate from a well-known, east coast university with a degree in finance. He was as ambitious a young man as we’d ever met, and we knew immediately that we wanted to keep an eye [...]
