Month: November 2015

Money Roll
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

5 Reasons Why Not to Raise Capital for Your Startup

I recently had dinner with co-founders of a startup who’d just raised quite a bit of money for their company, a deal which incidentally I’d passed on. The meal was fantastic: fresh salmon from the bay, washed down with a particularly good New Zealand pinot noir, while watching the sun

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Unicorn
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

Rainbows in the World of Venture Capital

Little girls love to live in a make-believe world. I know this because I have one – a little girl that is. She understands that teddy bears don’t have feelings, that the moon isn’t made of cheese, and she grudgingly understands that unicorns don’t really exist, though a part of

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Horse rider
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

You Stupid, Stupid Boy! (Education of an Investor)

Teenagers do stupid things. I speak from authority. Freshly entering pimple-faced territory I had the opportunity to spend some time with a girl who made me weak at the knees. She was everything that my hormone soaked brain wanted. She was also incidentally the owner of and an accomplished rider

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Lightbulb
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Is Trouble Brewing in the Electricity Market?

After the series of articles discussing the shale oil industry I received a lot of feedback discussing both shale oil and energy in general, including the following from a reader discussing electricity in Europe: Chris, Here’s the puzzle I am trying to figure out: Will there be mean reversion with regards

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