Month: October 2014

What Do Supertankers and Southeast Asia Have in Common?

My son just read me an interesting fact. Did you know that a typical oil tanker will take up to 3km and 45 minutes to complete a 180 degree turn at normal sea speed? He is busy reading me all the facts about the Titanic. He’s enthralled with it because

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Why I Don’t Really Care About Your Product

I’ve just gotten off the phone with a gentleman who runs a radio show dedicated to entrepreneurs. He reached out to us as he thought it’d be interesting speaking with me, as an entrepreneur, and as an Angel investing in entrepreneurs. He wanted to know what we look for in

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Chris MacIntosh

What This High-End Escort Can Teach You About Business

At a recent meeting with a VC in Singapore a strangely interesting article Sex is Sex. But Money Is Money. was shared with me. It was written by a 24-year-old ex-New York escort named Svetlana, and I recommend it to entrepreneurs, business owners and investors alike. What I found most fascinating

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Stability in Renminbi Offers an XXL Profit Opportunity

As mentioned in my writing on the Singapore dollar, the most dangerous thing in finance is the “thing” that never moves. This stability creates an illusion of control around which many positions are built, the greater the perceived stability the greater the positions, and the more other assumptions and forecasts

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Crowdfunding – Disruptive Finance Goes Global Part II

On Tuesday we posted podcast session #1 with Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss from Crowdfund Capital Advisors, two of the Crowdfunding movement’s most influential thought leaders. Today we bring you parts 2 and 3. As we mentioned previously, Jason was kind enough to join us in Aspen this past August

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Crowdfunding – Disruptive Finance Goes Global

Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss are two of the Crowdfunding movement’s most influential thought leaders. We’ve had the pleasure of knowing them both for some time now, and recently we grabbed about 90 minutes of their time to record some really insightful podcasts. Jason was kind enough to join us

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Did Someone Say Deleveraging?

For reference I should mention that I recently wrote about debt in a post titled Debt Chart Porn, and we are about to mail out our comprehensive debt report to our registered readers. All of this has led me to thinking a lot about debt and the state of the world

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Replace These People with an App Already

I spent a recent weekend looking at some real estate. It used to be a favourite way for me to spend time and I realized how much I really miss it. I was reminded of how 99% of real estate agents are completely useless. No, I mean not just incompetent

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