Month: March 2012

Investing in Education

Investing involves more than simply allocating money towards a particular venture. It also involves what we do with our time, which is arguably our greatest resource. In today’s world Mark and I see a fair amount of futility involved in going to University immediately out of secondary school, and even

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Please Daddy Can I Play Too?

Myanmar is moving swiftly ahead, opening the country up to foreign investment. Recent draft legislation reveals a new investment law enabling “foreign devils” to own 100% of a business. Foreigners will no longer require a local partner in order to set up a business in the country, and those same foreign

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Flying Money – Where It All Began

China circa 1100… This was a time when commerce was booming, life was grand and the Chinese economy was expanding rapidly. I don’t know the figures but by all historical accounts real GDP was going through the roof. Alternating crops on the land, irrigating and fertilising with manure – in

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Crescendo of Debt – ¥1,086,000,000,000,000

Questions, not answers are where all thoughts begin. If you’ve come to this blog looking for answers we humbly suggest you leave now. There are countless sites out there offering you the answers. That many of them have been, and continue to be, dead wrong doesn’t matter, they satisfy the perverse need for

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A Natural Born Business Builder

Mark and I have made no secret of our investing in a technology incubator. We first mentioned why we like incubators, we then interviewed founder and tech wonk Dan Faiman, and recently I spoke with Donald Danks, who is a partner in the firm and an integral part of management

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Why I Bought my Son a Second-Hand Piece of Furniture

It’s easy to consume. Flick on the TV and you’ll find no end to the plethora of items that you could spend your money on. Shopping is a national sport in most Western nations, and with the wonders of the Internet people don’t even have to get up off their

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Avoid the Jelly Heads

Some weeks ago I had a conversation with Douglas Clayton. We discussed Cambodia – The New Emerging Market, and it’s inevitable transformation from sleepy backwater into economic up-and-comer. It’s got a long way to go, but that’s why the opportunity is so intriguing. In the course of the conversation we

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