Year: 2011

Fact or Fiction?

This post either has everything or nothing to do with investing and capitalism, but I can’t get the topic out of my mind so… I want to ask you a couple of questions, but before I do that I want to tell you a short story. Last night I had

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Japan… Actionable Ideas

I’m relatively confident that without the mundane sanity of squabbling children, and my lovely mild-mannered wife, my head would explode given all of the events taking place on this ball of dirt we call home. It seems that every time I go to sleep I wake to find something of

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An Investor’s Personal Evolution: A 4-Stage Process

Last week I promised you an article about a recent conversation I had with an executive from a Fertilizer company operating in China, however as I was finishing the article last night and adjusting minor grammar I managed to “disappear” the entire post from our website. I only found out

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Coup d’Etat: Surviving The Backlash From The Masses

There is an awful lot happening on this ball of dirt we’re on and Mark and I are fortunate enough to have some exceptionally smart and talented friends whom we rely on both to second guess our own analysis of situations as well as build our own understanding of the

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Chinese FDI and What it Means for Hong Kong and Singapore

Sound bites… We need to dig deep into the bowels of these nasty little things, which are eagerly snapped up by an increasingly frivolous media. An argument put forward to me recently is why I am engaging this topic. The argument was that foreign capital flows into China are completely

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Importance Of Management in Every Business Organization

This site is all about interaction with our readers, so we loved it when Djamel asked the following question in response to this post. “Hi, I would like to say that this was a great article – I appreciate the time and effort that goes into writing informative articles for

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Riddler
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

One Way to Solve the Pre Money Valuation Conundrum

Let’s make something perfectly clear; I’ve made some ridiculously stupid investment decisions.  I’ve also made some which in hindsight appear to be genius (buying SLV leaps over a year ago, for example).  When structuring deals where our own capital was at risk, we’ve structured some poorly, and others far more astutely. I

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Voyeurism And Observational Learning

Voyeurism is a strange thing. We bipeds like to watch other people, and we seem to be totally addicted to it no matter what our race or nationality. Ask yourself this:  What do most people do with their spare time? Heck, what do you do with your spare time? Do you

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